First Person Accused of P2P ID Theft Gets 51 Months Detention

Using P2P Services for Illegal Downloads Might Become Too Costly

After getting his name famous in a rather regrettably way by becoming towards the end of 2007, the first person to be indicted on peer-2-peer identify theft charges, Gregory Kopiloff has been sentenced to 51 months imprisonment, IT-SecCity reports.

David Hobson, managing director of Global Secure Systems, a IT security consultancy, tackled the threat that emerges with the using of P2P services to download illegal content. "Not only do P2P users faces the risk of prosecution by the authorities and even disconnection by their service provider under the new 'three strikes' UK government proposals, but now they also stand a chance of being defrauded."

He warns about the troublesome P2P BitTorrent clients such as Azureus and BitLord which are like a thorn in the back of the "already hard-pressed IT manager" due their new encrypting methods which enable users to circumvent detection.

Though using Azureus to encrypt the P2P data stream reduces the speed of transfer, it also acts as an effective hold back in the detection process of the transmissions on a company network, believes Hobson. Thus his recommendation points to IT security systems coming from AppGate, Blue Coat Systems and Lumension as a proper solution for the companies wanting to surface up all the activities lurking behind their networks.