Is traceing IP s legal?
143094
Tracing IP is legal.  If you use it for some other purpose, then it is that use which might be illegal.
480652
you can use http://www.blockstatus.com/ip-proxy-detector to find whether you are behind a proxy or not. Good Luck!\n\nInternet Proxy servers are used for anonymity. That is, to hide your real ip. Surely your ISP will be counting your bandwidth usage, because you connect to these proxies using your internet connection.
818117
Yes, they absolutely can. They have access to things the general public doesn't. It is usually as easy as getting logs from the phone company that are not available to the general public. Plus, it can be done quickly. Also, in most areas, if you hit *57 or *56  (check in the front of your phone book) after they call, even if it is private or anonymous, it can be traced. The cops usually don't get involved in it unless you notify them. If you hit those numbers more than 3 times and it shows up as the same caller in the phone company logs, the police also get involved. Some cities police departments do it automatically after being notified by the phone company and some cities need you to contact the police yourself even if you hit the trace numbers. I would advise you to call the police and they will tell you what to do. Be aware that the phone company WILL NOT tell you who it is or what number it is coming from. The police must determine this.
1169417
That's not even legal.  If someone actually did it and got in trouble a good lawyer could go after Smith for promoting the idea.  Just becasue he's not the one actually doing the hacking doesn't mean he can wash his hands of it if something bad happens or someone gets in trouble if he's the one that put them up to it.
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Many Hackers & Loggers Use Chat Systems to getinto others computers...\n\nHence a complete track is must...which is only possible when we record the IP Addresses...\n\nRecording IP Addresses doesnt mean they see our chat sessions.. \nIts only your computers identity connected to the internet world...with which they are concerned about....
172660
Just the ISP (ISP of the person) can tell you at a specific time which phone number was using a specific IP.\n\nBut they will not reveal their users private info to you, therefore it is almost impossible.
874017
Can they? Yes. Without a doubt. Your ISP has the same access as the IT department where you work. They can look at every little packet coming to or from your PC at any time. Have you ever watched a detective or legal show where they catch the bad guy from his IP addy? Or they get a list of all the websites he visits? Same thing.\n\nDo they? That's a matter of some debate. If you're doing something illegal and somebody presents a warrant, you can bet your last dollar you're being tracked. As a matter of course, though? Probably not. Unless you've got some little podunk ISP - with fewer than 100 users - they just don't have the manpower to look through the millions and millions of log pages generated by their customers.\n\nUnless you work in the business you have no idea how much information is passed back and forth for something as simple as a file transfer. It's absolutely mind boggling. Anonymity is your best weapon. No mid-level tech is going to waste days upon days searching through the packet captures and port sniffers to see if you're uploading to Kazaa or Newsleecher. \n\nWhat little prosecution has occurred has been a result of the P2P cooperating with investigations and supplying the agency with user lists, IP addresses, and similar. Even then it's kind of like winning the lottery to get caught and winning again to have the charges materialize into anything.\n\nI'm not condoning illegal activities, I'm just saying you're not likely to get in trouble. If you do decide you need to pirate things, use some common sense: don't share through a central server, avoid using your real name, never give credit card information, don't exchange emails with people you meet online, don't have blatantly illegal content (child-porn), etc.\n\nHope that answers your question,\nOdd
580807
Most likely, you can't.  Running a trace on the email will only lead back as far as the ISP.  Only thing I can think of is that you can try an internet search on the email address, and see if you get any hits, or do an internet search for "reverse email lookup" and try one of those sites.
843330
Yes, the websites you visit can obtain your IP address, for example go here:\nhttp://www.ipchecker.net/\nto find ot what your IP address is. When in chat you're usually safe unless you establish p2p connection with the other person (usually when you transfer a file)
5298
You could subpoena their ISP.
1187620
without ipv6 you technically can't since the source of their communications can be spoofed by a good hacker.\n\nIf you want to be pretty sure, you can look up the owner of their IP address via nslookup (there are free web-based versions of this tool now).  If the IP is owned by a UK company, they are probably telling the truth.
1025633
Hi, you can trace any IP over the Internet using a free web-site service called Visual Route, it tells you from where it comes and it even shows you a map from your ip to that specific ip.  Here is the link: http://visualroute.visualware.com/\n\nAlso if this is not enough type this google search: track ip and a whole list of sites will appear.\n\nHope this helps!
533656
u must know the ip address of the victim.
303166
You can install a network sniffer and watch the network traffic.  If you see unexpected traffic, you can see the IP address it is coming from.
737948
No it is not, but the right to demonstrate is, so the find a way to go around the reason to demonstrate in the first place.\nFor example you cant have any access to legal  Nazi-sites in the Web with a German IP.
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The short answer is, yes, of course they are tracking IPs.  The long answer to your other question follows.\n\nIt is a straight-forward, multistep process.\n\n1. Encourage laws that require internet service and server providers to log IP addresses (9/11 pretty much nailed that one for them).\n2. Collect proof of misdeeds for each particular P2P service that is allowing illegal file copying.\n3. Sue the P2P service and demand they hand over IP addresses of offending users.\n4. Trace IP addresses back to users.  Remember, the businesses involved all have to keep records.\n\nAlso, some programs embed identifying information in them.\n\nPretty much any Microsoft program, at least one that uses OLE Structured Storage, creates these huge ID numbers in them called a GUID for each item in the file.  Part of that ID number is their IP address or the unique hardware ID of their interface card, I forget which.\n\nAlso, the encoding process which generates an MP3 file from a CD can store some information in the file which can be used to piece together who created it. It may not be enough to find who did it but it is probably helpful in proving a given computer did it once they have that computer.\n\nThere is probably more going on but you get the idea. At each point along the way, from creating the song file, to transfering it to a service, and downloading it from a service, bits of information are accumulating.\n\nThe more times a person does each of these things, the easier it is to find them, prove it is them, and notice that they are doing a lot. And, just as important, more evidence is accumulating which is used in court as proof of a crime being committed and intent to commit a crime on the part of the peope being sued by the RIAA - or whoever.\n\nSo, either listen to: music you buy, public domain music, music from the radio - or compose/play your own.\n\nYou probably don't like it when you found out someone copied off your test at school.  It makes them get a higher grade than they deserve and if the test is graded on a curve, your A- work can wind up being counted as a B+.  \n\nWell, songwriters composed that music and/or lyrics, musicians practiced and learned to play that song and paid to use a recording studio to perform it in.  When people don't pay to hear that play, the musicians still have their expenses to pay but no royalty check to pay for it. They lose money doing what they love.\n\nEven if someone cannot afford a whole album they can still afford to buy their favorite song for 99 cents.
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I don't think the serial number will help you.  However, if you've got passwords on that computer for message boards and maybe some notable sites you log in to you might be able to track down the ISP of someone who's using them.  Ask those sites if your account has been logged into lately and if so, ask them for the IP number.  Then you'll have to contact the ISP that IP number belongs to, so do a 'who is' search on the IP number.  Contact the ISP and see if they can help you from there.