...last summer.
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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#242My oh my... I seem to have downloaded a lot of torrents on my phone. And I have such eclectic tastes. Shared IPs are still very much a thing you know...
Conversely, mine doesn't show anything even though I have a static IP and download frequently... odd.
Yeah I found that odd as well.
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#243Jokes on you, my ISP has double NAT and I'm pretty sure 1000s are sharing my IP. Good luck finding what I download. Sadly it's also the same thing that I absolutely hate about my ISP.
So NAT is happening before the connection comes into your house? Typically double NAT happens because your ISP does not allow that to be disabled on their modem and you have your own router hooked up through lan.
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#244Another interesting one is to hit the "My Contributions" button on Wikipedia when you're not logged in. This will show you anonymous edits that have come from your IP address.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyContributions
There are a lot of weird people who share my IP address editing a lot of weird stuff!
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#245An 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 flip side: When I was an intern I once had four people arrive at my desk (including an HR lawyer) for torrenting ubuntu server. Thankfully I shared a cube wall with someone smart enough to realize the confusion, and explain me out of being walked out. They were monitoring for torrent traffic, but weren't paying attention to what was being torrented. Apparently a company-wide warning had gone out the week before I…
How are they supposed to know what you’re torrenting?
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#246Just checked on our company vpn. Sure enough, someone has been downloading gigabytes. The legal issues are one thing, but screwing up the speed and stability of our shared internet is even worse!
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#247It doesn’t know what I download on BitTorrent. I only download from a private tracker that is 15 years old, nice try :)
Yah me too.
I remember switching from XDCC to bittorrent when it first came out. There was a very short period where XDCC bots would have .torrent files on them.
Back then bit torrent was exclusively fansubs (anime) and the bit torrent client didn't have an upload limit, so it was painfully slow on the average connection.
Because at the time bit torrent didn't have any retention, and you could use a service like xdcc spy or xdcc finder to find old content similar to pirate bay today, I was somewhat of a skeptic of bit torrent then for this reason.
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#248Please do not visit this site unless if you want to be tracked.
In addition it is extremely inaccurate, it used to say that 8.8.8.8 was torrenting anime.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Also in some markets the official local release was a year behind. Given that it's not possible to get an HBO subscription outside of the US, for many people pirating was the only way to watch it.
Or in the Netherlands, where is was exclusive to 1 ISP
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Earlier this year there was a case where someone was accessing illegal stuff (as in, the sort of stuff that does warrant police kicking their door down at 4am) using public WiFi. Except the ISP had forgotten to take into account daylight savings time and given the police the wrong customer's details. Oops.
ouch
More proof dates aren't easy.