I Know What You Download on BitTorrent • Hacker News Board

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by minhazm » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:28 PM UTC

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…

You'd think they would just pay for their own droplet in that scenario. Digital Ocean runs promo's all the time with free credits too.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by easterncalculus » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:29 PM UTC

Reason077 wrote: post #244

Another 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!

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this, I also got some interesting responses from a VPN.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by nsilvestri » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:31 PM UTC

tinus_hn wrote: post #245

debacle wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I suppose they could have known by using a tool such as the one linked in this post.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by curiousgal » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:33 PM UTC

kinghajj wrote: post #287

Meta-question: There are supposedly 274 comments on this article as I write this, yet I can see only 1. Is this an error? Has the discussion been locked?

I also ran into he same issue! First HN bug I've come across in years.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by joan_kode » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

kinghajj wrote: post #287

Meta-question: There are supposedly 274 comments on this article as I write this, yet I can see only 1. Is this an error? Has the discussion been locked?

I also experienced this, the footer was missing as well. I tried from different devices and there was only one comment. I'm not sure how long it lasted but at least a few minutes, seems back to normal now.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

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…

So did you sack him?

Re: 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 greenshackle2 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #173

Bjartr wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piracy is copyright infringement. There's no reason to call it theft. They are both bad for society, they are both illegal, but they are distinct.

While literally true; I have always found this argument to be petty and pedantic. I’ve heard every argument in the book; but even the old ads said ‘you wouldn’t steal ____’. The fundamental principle is so similar to the point that discussing it quickly devolves into pedantry. I am one that has had this discussion probably a dozen times; half of those on this forum, and I’ve just decided to stand by my educated opini…

It's not pedantic at all. If we could copy-paste food, clothes, etc. for free, theft would be very different.

Or maybe not, I can just about imagine a bunch of suits suing Jesus for multiplying bread to feed the poor because it deprived them of their baked good sales revenue.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by jnsaff2 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

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…

http://bash.org/?258908

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by steelbrain » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:45 PM UTC

fernandotakai wrote: post #151

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.

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

Ex put.io customer, I downloaded a bunch of media to consume over a flight, except their App would not let me watch already-downloaded videos offline on a plane.