— 8 — addresses of the tracker server and the appellant’s seeder computer, as well as information regarding the files to be downloaded. 25. In addition, it was found that the appellant had used the camera seized on the raid to take digital pictures of film-poster like images corresponding to the pictures on the seized VCDs and had copied those images onto his computer. He had sent them as images embedded in e-mails to the newsgroups to advertise the availability of the films. 26. The seeder computer must then be connected to the tracker server which, after examining the files being made available, registers the connected computer as the initial seeder for those files. A downloader wishing to obtain the relevant files would then be able to connect with the tracker server which would direct him to the seeder’s computer, enabling copies of the target files to be downloaded. In the present case, it was found that the appellant had established a connection with a tracker server referred to as “sml.dyndns.org”. 27. When the first person wishing to obtain the target files (call him A) activates a .torrent file (usually downloaded from a newsgroup) this connects him with the tracker server which directs him to the seeder computer. On being accessed, the seeder computer transmits the desired files to A’s computer. In so doing, the seeder’s own electronic copy of the film remains on his computer’s hard disk. What is transmitted is an electronic reproduction of that copy, generated by the appellant’s computer in the form of discrete packets of digital information designed to be transmitted to and re-assembled by downloading computers in the correct sequence so as to constitute (in the present case) an entire viewable copy of the film. 28. If, in the course of this transmission process, a second downloader, “B”, joins in to download the files, the seeder computer transmits digital packets simultaneously to both A and B. To speed things up, the software

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