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I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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"In addition, the site offers a nifty spy tool where you can see what your friends are downloading, without knowing their IP-address. If someone clicks on a link you send them, their alleged download history shows up immediately, without the IP-address being exposed."[1] [1] https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bitto...

Wow, they're just straight up distributing spyware and getting people to install it on their friends machines huh.

How is this spyware in any definition?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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VPN for the win! After receiving one of the threat letters from a cheesy law firm representing the RIAA and MPAA 3 years ago, all of my downloads via torrent go through a VPN. Keep yourself safe online.

Stupid question : If I am on a college campus and using a VPN, does it in anyway protect me from the college authorities snooping on my data ? Will they know that I am downloading a torrent ? What about normal HTTP(S) data ?

They can see that you are trying to hide something because all of your traffic goes to the single IP address.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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"In addition, the site offers a nifty spy tool where you can see what your friends are downloading, without knowing their IP-address. If someone clicks on a link you send them, their alleged download history shows up immediately, without the IP-address being exposed."[1] [1] https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bitto...

Wow, they're just straight up distributing spyware and getting people to install it on their friends machines huh.

um, no, it works because you send them the link and then they know your friends IP

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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How we collect data Our system collects torrent files in two ways: parsing torrent sites and listening DHT network. We have more than 500.000 torrents which where classified and which are using now for collecting peer sharing facts (up to 700.000.000 daily). We don't guarantee we can show ALL peer sharing facts: Single IP address could be assigned to multiple users. It depends on user's ISP. For example mobile operat…

I think ISPs limit the usefulness of this since they rotate IPs so often. I tried it because I knew I didn't have any torrents downloaded in the last year at least, but last week it shows a Jurrasic World download

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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I find this extremely inaccurate - especially when ISPs rotate your IP address. It mentioned that I downloaded the following on Dec 11th: 1. Office 2016 Pro 2. Assassin's Creed Unity 3. Watchdogs Not only is it completely inaccurate, no one used my internet on Dec 11th (which meant my IP was probably shuffled by my ISP to someone else). This is one of the reasons why you should probably take all those DMCA notices wi…

> it's almost impossible to argue that you pirated in the first place

Wouldn't the ISP be able to prove you were assigned that IP at that time of day?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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VPN for the win! After receiving one of the threat letters from a cheesy law firm representing the RIAA and MPAA 3 years ago, all of my downloads via torrent go through a VPN. Keep yourself safe online.

VPN isn't a guarantee of safety. I got a DMCA warning for downloading one file once using a top VPN service.

There are some extra precautions you need to take to anonymize your traffic on torrents, like forcing encryption with a socks proxy in addition to running the VPN.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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VPN for the win! After receiving one of the threat letters from a cheesy law firm representing the RIAA and MPAA 3 years ago, all of my downloads via torrent go through a VPN. Keep yourself safe online.

I'm curious: how long did you seed on that torrent?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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VPN for the win! After receiving one of the threat letters from a cheesy law firm representing the RIAA and MPAA 3 years ago, all of my downloads via torrent go through a VPN. Keep yourself safe online.

I'm curious: how long did you seed on that torrent?

I received one 20 Minutes after I started a download.
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