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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by niij »

AmVess wrote: post #5
sasper wrote: post #3

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.

Use this [0] to find your Torrent Clients IP address. It downloads a torrent where the tracker description echoes back your IP. I've found VPNs to be too unreliable and only use a seedbox now.

[0] https://torguard.net/checkmytorrentipaddress.php

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by SCHiM »

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

>> Torrent downloads and distributions for IP 192.168.0.1: Distributes child pornography, Static IP, Likes porn

I wonder if they share their data with law enforcement, because there appears to be al lot of valuable data to be mined in the DHT swarms. This service reminds me of the crux in the most recent south park season.

* SPOILER *

Wherein world-order is threatened by the 'troll-trace' program that will expose the on-line behaviour of everyone.

* END

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by dogma1138 »

BoorishBears wrote: post #24
ShinyCyril wrote: post #16

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

ISPs don't limit the usefulness of this as much as private trackers that do; my IP address is completely clean but if you look at my Transmission you'll be surprised ;)

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by pmontra »

tyingq wrote: post #37

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.

Me too, but it says that I'm in the USA, AT&T Wireless. Very wrong guess by thousands miles.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by problems »

By putting the infohash in the URL your site is effectively equivalent to The Pirate Bay - you're distributing links to pirated content, the only important thing in a magnet link is the infohash, the rest can be obtained via DHT.

For example:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/?infohash=81ac3d... -> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:81ac3df677afb84211d59443fbb65f5f584cfa1a

Paste into torrent client and download. You might want to doublehash that to avoid a potential legal threat.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by dingdingdang »

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…

Same experience here, the download (yup, singular) listed was not mine. Takes the point of this service away.. apart from seeing what illegal immoral awful crap people apparently download (somewhere.. unless its all completely made up) :/
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