| Funny what happens if you DONT have a printer hooked up then what? |
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| said by hayabusa3303:what happens if you DONT have a printer hooked up then what? the diaRIAA doesn't care. it's not even like you have to be alive to get sued by their goon squad. |
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 OmegaDisplaced OhioanPremium
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Cheyenne, WY | reply to hayabusa3303
said by hayabusa3303:what happens if you DONT have a printer hooked up then what? I don't think you understood the article.
Printers on networks have IP addresses. The researchers were able to make it look like the IP addresses of the printers were participating in the bit torrenting of files. |
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 CheesePremium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
kudos:1 | said by Omega:said by hayabusa3303:what happens if you DONT have a printer hooked up then what? I don't think you understood the article. Printers on networks have IP addresses. The researchers were able to make it look like the IP addresses of the printers were participating in the bit torrenting of files. So a printer, with no networking capability, and plugged in using USB, has an IP? |
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| said by Cheese:said by Omega:said by hayabusa3303:what happens if you DONT have a printer hooked up then what? I don't think you understood the article. Printers on networks have IP addresses. The researchers were able to make it look like the IP addresses of the printers were participating in the bit torrenting of files. So a printer, with no networking capability, and plugged in using USB, has an IP? NO. They are talking about printers on a LAN that have their own NIC cards or WiFi connection to routers and therefore have IP addresses.
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CheesePremium
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Naples, FL
kudos:1 | said by fAcEtIOUs:NO. They are talking about printers on a LAN that have their own NIC cards or WiFi connection to routers and therefore have IP addresses. That's what I thought too... |
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