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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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Post by easterncalculus »

dt3ft wrote: post #3

I can see this being used by law enforcement in countries where IP address = person that rents it.

There are still plenty of places where this can apply, though. Any organization that owns an AS is susceptible to this especially. Consider universities, which might own one, where each IP corresponds to a student. Universities also just happen to be a hotbed of torrent traffic.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by UncleEntity »

duxup wrote: post #2

I had nothing for my actual home IP, but if you want to see something fire up your VPN and see what they have listed for that IP ;)

Had to try it, surprisingly zero porn?!?

Actually...for a free wireguard server there wasn't a whole lot of bittorrent traffic at all.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by grawprog »

Apparently Blindspot, Warrior, Hanna and the Twilight zone is pretty popular for my ip address. I've never downloaded any of these and Twilight zone is the only one i've even heard of. I also can't torrent things through my service provider, they throttle them, so i've never actually used a torrent program at all from this IP. So, that I guess...

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

dt3ft wrote: post #3

I can see this being used by law enforcement in countries where IP address = person that rents it.

> in countries where IP address = person that rents it.

Does that actually exist today? At least IPv4 addresses I would expect to increasingly mean nothing, as address exhaustion drives more people behind CGNAT.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by easterncalculus »

grawprog wrote: post #7

Apparently Blindspot, Warrior, Hanna and the Twilight zone is pretty popular for my ip address. I've never downloaded any of these and Twilight zone is the only one i've even heard of. I also can't torrent things through my service provider, they throttle them, so i've never actually used a torrent program at all from this IP. So, that I guess...

Has your IP address changed recently? I definitely didn't want to post this under the implication that it is always 100% accurate.
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