Since everyone is taking about their experiences seeing workmates torrent, and no one is posting how this works - Torrents are peer to peer. Bit torrent is a type of application. Bittorrent are not inclusive to torrents anymore. Since everything is public, you can load several torrents, and watch for the handshake to occur and record the time/date and ip address. Do it on a large enough scale and there you go. There…
There’s a business in Germany entirely dedicated to this and to send letters to people’s residence.
Since everyone is taking about their experiences seeing workmates torrent, and no one is posting how this works - Torrents are peer to peer. Bit torrent is a type of application. Bittorrent are not inclusive to torrents anymore. Since everything is public, you can load several torrents, and watch for the handshake to occur and record the time/date and ip address. Do it on a large enough scale and there you go. There…
I'm surprised it worked even on 'private' torrents I had. I had some misguided thoughts that they were a bit more secure as you needed a specific torrent downloaded that tied you to the torrent. I see now that it's just an authentication thing on top of the public interface.
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…
I worked for a place where our internet was bad, but not that bad. We were coming up to a release and things were fubar. I asked the network guy to find what was up - a guy that reported to me was torrenting child porn.
I worked at a place where, one morning, the guy in the next office over got swarmed by company security and the police. He was trafficking in child porn on the company network. He was a super smart, super dumb guy who lost everything over it, his wife, custody of his kids, friends and a very high-paying career. His car sat in the company garage for weeks.
interesting, I have not downloaded anything from my IP address. Also, my partner has doesn't even know the existence of the Bittorrent. Yet, we have a list of all kinds' of interesting files that we have apparently downloaded. Either someone is using our IP address to download things by hijacking our wifi, or something else is going on. As far as I know we don't share our IP, something to investigate here.
Since everyone is taking about their experiences seeing workmates torrent, and no one is posting how this works - Torrents are peer to peer. Bit torrent is a type of application. Bittorrent are not inclusive to torrents anymore. Since everything is public, you can load several torrents, and watch for the handshake to occur and record the time/date and ip address. Do it on a large enough scale and there you go. There…
You are very much not in the clear if you block like this. That's just delusional.
Copyright monitoring firms have many endpoints that look like consumer ADSL/cable... because they are consumer connections.
> The movement away from physical copies I just don't understand this argument, physical copies of virtually any type of media absolutely still exist. If you want to own even Netflix shows on disc, you can do that pretty cheaply. I'd you want to get Blu Ray discs delivered to you by mail for a subscription fee, you can probably do that (although this is slightly more geographically restricted). This argument is simpl…
I don’t buy movies on dvd or Blu-ray any more. But I still lend access. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that if I watch a movie that I like, I should purchase it again on physical media just to loan it. And that my friend should buy a DVD player just to watch a borrowed movie. If I’ve bought it once digitally, I will make copies and lend them to friends. Or more specifically, I’ll give them a login to my private…
It’s great to hear about people using software to share culture. Re: Plex, I looked in your bio but didn’t see contact info. I also have a private server to share culture with friends. Find my contact info in my bio and maybe we can talk more?