Peter Anaman, a senior internet investigator for legal firm Covington and Burling has admitted that his organisation has infiltrated unnamed private BitTorrent tracker sites and shares their method of gaining access; Anaman added, “Once you’re in, you never take action. You just listen?

I think the last quote is probably the only clue that private site owners could get to identify the moles in the system.Why would they keep users in the system who never share files ? Who seem to click on many files but never download them or stop downloads shortly after starting them ?

The piracy investigators could adopt new tactics of course which leads to the conclusion that private trackers have and will never be safe. Don’t rely on them as your only source of security. If you want security stop using p2p networks.. What’s your stance in the matter ?

Update: With private trackers opening registration ever now and then to the public, it is safe to say that the majority are tracked by companies specialized in tracking these kinds of things. The data gathered this way is then used when companies decided to take the tracker operators to court.