Sparrow, if they're using bittorrent, it's dead easy. Every leecher is a downloader and uploader at the same time. With other avenues, like websites and newsgroups, they'll have to sue the companies to get access to the download logs to find out who did what. Which is easy with web hosts, but not so easy with newshosts, as they're smart enough not to log downloads. But they could easily be forced to. P2P networks can be monitored for both uploads and downloads very easily, as it's been done a lot in the past.
The only way you'll avoid their detection these days is to be on a private darknet that uses encrypted VPN. But even that's only safe for a short time. If they really want in, they're gonna get in, and you're gonna get caught. Even the old standby of IRC isn't safe anymore.
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