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Re: I Know What You Download

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Post by banana_giraffe »

I do wonder how their categorizations work. There are lot of things classified as Movies that are clearly TV shows. This doesn't bode well for what they call "Child Porn". If they sell the lists of these IPs, it's rather scary to think it's as reliable as their Movie or TV filters.

Re: I Know What You Download

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Post by wtmt »

This can be used for amusement, but is in no way reliable to know what you (or anyone else) downloads. It could possibly act as a starting point to track what someone is downloading/seeding when used with other mechanisms.

> How we collect data

> Our system collects torrent files in two ways: parsing torrent sites and listening DHT network. We have more than 1.500.000 torrents which where classified and which are using now for collecting peer sharing facts (up to 200.000.000 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 operators often used this schema.

Self-explanatory, but this could also be the case for home broadband where CGNAT is used. This means your public torrent downloads (or even if you don’t have any downloads) will be seen along with many others’ downloads as a single list.

> IP address could be dynamic. In such case it changes every time user connects to the Internet or periodically.

Again, self-explanatory. Unless one obtains and uses a static addresses (not the default for most home connections), what you see here could be somewhat similar to the previous point.

> User could download torrent which we don't have

Aka private trackers and torrents, which is what many people who know how to torrent and do it regularly would drift towards. The torrent files from private trackers set a “private” flag that makes the torrent client disable features like DHT (distributed hash table) and PEX (peer exchange) for those torrents. So unless you have a working account on the tracker and join a swarm, you cannot find out about other peers from public sources.

Re: I Know What You Download

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Post by nayaketo »

Geee wrote: post #20

Does this work for anyone?

It shows some of my torrent downloads tangled with tons of other torrent downloads that are not mine. Looks like it's showing all downloads for a particular IP and my ISP uses shared IP for multiple customers.

Re: I Know What You Download

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Post by ars »

ubercow13 wrote: post #16
rahuldottech wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multiple homes/routers/connections can be assigned the same IP.

They said they aren’t behind CGNAT

Clicking through on a particular torrent, till I get the IP list for that torrent, my IP doesn't actually show on that list.

So I suspect a bug in the display, perhaps if you download nothing, it shows incorrect info?

Re: I Know What You Download

#26

Post by bardan »

kovek wrote: post #17
somehnguy wrote: post #9

Well that was pretty interesting. Nothing listed for my external IP as I expected. But I hopped onto one of my VPN providers endpoints and got a huge list - mostly TV shows, movies, and porn. Not exactly unexpected but still neat to see.

I believe now that you're on the list they'll track what you download?

I think they have just been joining the most active torrents on popular trackers. You can't watch for what somebody torrents just with their IP address, you have to be watching the torrent itself.
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