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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by ceejayoz »

deadalus wrote: post #114
flak48 wrote: post #89

An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box. We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down via the IP) that we were engaging in piracy. We sent an email to everyone with access, saying whoever was doing it to stop. Then we got a second email (a final warning). Everyone denied…

seedr.cc, bitport.io or zbigz.com exist to solve this problem and would have saved him his job.

Or... just don't use work resources to torrent, period.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by ornornor »

ViViDboarder wrote: post #99
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usenet has its own issues though. The past couple years there’s been a massive jump in DMCA takedowns. On certain things you now have download as it becomes available, in a week it’ll be gone. For things that no one cares to pay for monitoring of, you can go back years. So, pros and cons to torrents that don’t get taken down specially but torrents “die” of old age when no one seeds them. It’s odd to me that file shar…

I believe it’s only really a good option for files because it’s old and there are many obscure providers. I don’t see anything about Usenet itself that makes it well suited for sharing files. In fact, quite the opposite. The fact that each file needs to be split and reconstructed after download results in an esoteric user experience. All that said, I love (or loved) Usenet for communicating on Newsgroups. I’m glad th…

You can automate it all. Nzbget and sonarr, radarr makes it transparent to the user.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by sn_master »

demadog wrote: post #119
sn_master wrote: post #112

I've been using a Seedbox since December 2014. Best 15$/month I pay. You can even pay with Bitcoin, tho I just use PayPal. 2 TB of storage, very fast speed with caching (i.e. some torrents finish immediately if someone else has it downloaded). An uncached Blu-ray ~4 GB movie gets finished in 15-30 mins. They also have auto-delete feature. If they get a legal complaint they just delete the offending torrent and keep m…

Which seed box?

Whatbox. The 15/month plan I have is the legacy one, but the new plans are only very slightly more expensive (22$) and have more storage and speed.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by larntz »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #62
Tepix wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nowadays internet users on cable often keep the same IP address for weeks if not months. Who knows, your ISP could change its configuration tomorrow and always re-assign the same IP address to you as long as its available. I think the point of this website is to show people that using torrents is far from anonymous and invisible.

That, and you should know that there is almost certainly history of who had which IP address when; it's not going to be the same DHCP server running on your small router. If you download something, get a new IP, and the ISP gets a complaint for your old IP, they have that data and may be obligated legally to do something about it.

In the long long ago I worked at a small regional ISP. We offered dial-up and dsl. Users were assigned whatever IP was available when they connected, and this was logged (including disconnect time).

So, it was very easy to search the logs and see who was using an IP at a given time in the past (assuming we still had the logs).

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by _tbyy »

flak48 wrote: post #89

An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box. We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down via the IP) that we were engaging in piracy. We sent an email to everyone with access, saying whoever was doing it to stop. Then we got a second email (a final warning). Everyone denied…

The problem here is not recognizing that the piracy was actually the problem. In what way was it forgivable? Because everybody does it, that makes it okie dokie? Because you don't have a Netflix account? If everyone treated piracy as theft (it is) then no one would have to waste their time investigating it because the collective will would exist to prevent it.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by willcipriano »

timdorr wrote: post #95
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...

One of my neighboring IPs distributes child pornography according to this site, which is just fan-fucking-tastic. Anyone know how far Comcast distributes IPs on the same subnet geographically?

Drop a dime: https://www.fbi.gov/tips

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by _tbyy »

deadalus wrote: post #114
flak48 wrote: post #89

An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box. We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down via the IP) that we were engaging in piracy. We sent an email to everyone with access, saying whoever was doing it to stop. Then we got a second email (a final warning). Everyone denied…

seedr.cc, bitport.io or zbigz.com exist to solve this problem and would have saved him his job.

Seriously. The idea that it's just fine to pirate everything because you can or have the tech to do it is appalling to see in this community.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by areactnativedev »

No you don't, there might be one I dowloaded in there but most of them were definitely not downloaded by me (and no one in my house). I guess that's a good side of getting a very dynamic IP from my ISP...

And yes I know, that doesn't mean I'm protected from getting into trouble if I did something wrong since my ISP could probably link an IP and timestamp to me if asked by a lawyer.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by cerberusss »

loufe wrote: post #19

It was worth the VPN investment I guess.

I also have a VPN but guess what, my torrents are nicely showing. I've recently been using BiglyBT, a clone of the old Azureus torrent client. But apparently if something is wrong with the SOCKS proxy, BiglyBT defaults simply skipping the proxy :(
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