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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by chakalakasp »

asymmetric wrote: post #25
ohstopitu wrote: post #19

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?

Yup. ISP gets DMCA notice, notice says date and time and IP -- ISP absolutely capable of knowing which customer was assigned that IP at that time.

You can't really take DMCA notices with a "grain of salt". Many ISPs will just cut you as a customer after you get enough of them, as DMCA notices require effort on their part and the amount of effort their IT and legal staff spend dealing with other IT and legal staff looking for you quickly exceeds how much you are paying a month. So unless your area has an overabundance of ways to get internet to your home (in which case you must not live in America), you probably can't afford to have your ISP ban you from using their service.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by eternalban »

codedokode wrote: post #22
the_sam_fischer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just like the authorities in any nation-state can tell if you are using Tor.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by tyingq »

Fails for me because I connect to their website via IPV6.

IPv6 is unsupported temporary

Odd though, if you don't support searching via IPV6, why have a website that accepts IPV6 connections?

Edit: Likely because they are using Cloudflare, which bridges IPV6 to IPV4. They should probably turn that off until they support IPV6 searches...it's under the network settings in cloudflare's control panel.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by xpinguin »

kbody wrote: post #28
guessmyname wrote: post #11

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=127.0.0.1 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=192.168.0.1

I guess the intersection of peer IP addresses for all the infohashes listed above (better, for the whole 192.168.0.0/24), from the DHT network, will be tremendously interesting... for someone... :)

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