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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by fernandotakai »

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.

i'm a put.io customer and i swear by them. absolutely great service.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by pier25 »

Santosh83 wrote: post #12

Well my ISP gives out a dynamic IP address each time my DSL modem connects to them, so this tactic only reveals who downloaded what when they were assigned my current IP. Nothing much can be inferred from this data unless you are the ISP or govt and can tie the IP to the subscriber. And yes, it shows my IP downloaded the movie Zombieland, which I never did, so it is some other subscriber of the same ISP.

I don't know but I imagine ISPs keep a record of which IPs they have assigned to which modems, no?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Orochikaku »

jlengrand wrote: post #138

Interestingly, I used to download a lot of torrents years ago. When Spotify came along, it dropped at least 80%. Add Netflix and Steam and I haven't used torrents in a very long while actually. Simply because everything I need is available at an affordable price. However, seeing how many streaming services are popping up lately, each with their own specialty and each wanting my money, (and seeing how crappy free Yout…

As Gabe Newell once said,

"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem”

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by londons_explore »

larntz wrote: post #124
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I would pay extra for an ISP who only kept those logs say 1 hour.

1 hour should be plenty to identify who is currently running some network attack, and arguably an ISP doesn't have a legit reason for keeping private data longer than necessary to be an ISP under the GDPR .

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by pier25 »

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…

> I then download the actual content either from FTP or HTTPS. If its a movie, I just download the single .mp4 file from the portal itself (and skip the subtitle/cover files) with HTTPS straight from Chrome, or even stream it directly through VLC!

Since you mentioned you're using Whatbox in another comment, why not simply use Plex to catalog and stream the files?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by NortySpock »

cosmojg wrote: post #149
_tbyy wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Huh? Why?

Because I make my money selling my labor and IP to my company (software engineer, it's in my contract.)

If someone stole my IP from me or my company, it would be harder to pay the bills for either me, or my company.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by epanchin »

_tbyy wrote: post #127
deadalus wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank goodness people did, or we’d still be listening to music on CDs and watching TV on the broadcasters schedule.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by bootlooped »

sevenf0ur wrote: post #147
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…

Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show in history. I remember when the first 4 episodes of season 5 were leaked at once. Christmas came early!

But it was a devil's bargain: you would then have to wait multiple weeks for the 5th episode.
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