Ping Snooping from mp3.com?

[lacrossegal511]

My firewall logs are showing pings from within the mp3.com network ( 208.48.67.12, 208.48.67.17, 208.48.67.60 and so on) I searched google.com with those addresses, and I see that other people are being pinged too.

If I don't run a Gnutella client for a while, the pings slack off to once a day. Right now, I'm logging several a minute. Since MP3.com belongs to some label (Vivendi Universal) I am suspicious of their intent.

Perhaps RIAA or Vivendi or mp3.com are trying to keep track of people using Gnutella?

 

[Nintendo-Miranda]

What they could do? Arrest us all? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.....HAH!

 

[angeliz378]

uhh, maybe some of the people there just use gnutella...

wouldn't these be consistent with that?

 

[Mommy-2-Be]

maybe they're trying to find out how well their artists are doing, and what better way to determine popularity than by counting a track's appearances on gnutella?

 

[Blair C]

Yes, this is surely more likely than a trial against us all. Eheh...