I had nothing for my actual home IP, but if you want to see something fire up your VPN and see what they have listed for that IP ;)
My current VPN endpoint has a dude who downloaded an unfortunate number of things about Adolph Hitler. :(
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Only problem I have with torrents are unpopular movies/series usually have no seeds, but there is nothing that can be done about that. > Pro-tip: Do not download the actual .torrent file. Many websites are setup to redirect you into an endless loop of shady .exe downloads. Always, always just copy the magnet link to your clipboard. A better pro-tip for these issues: if you're anyway using a seed box, figure out and…
Getting access to private trackers is non-trivial. Hell, I used to be on waffles.fm and lost my invite and getting access since then has been impossible. Usenet and sickbeard have been adequate replacements since then.
I'm sad to report that waffles.fm is no more.
Agreed, getting on private trackers - and surviving - is non-trivial, and don't think I could do it today (uploading, contributing). But once you do on the really big and important ones, you are set for life.
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#313Earlier 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…
I was "caught" by some monitoring system sharing Knoppix on a machine in the CS lab at university. I'd forgotten about it, and it had been running for months. One of the helpdesk staff told me that it had been noticed, since the bandwidth to that machine was very high, but he unofficially liked the idea of the university being top of the seeding table, so I should leave it running :-D [1] http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-k…
My university did ban p2p, no matter the content. Officially for upload bandwidth savings.
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#314Apparently 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?
Always report it. Worst case scenario there's proof that you didn't do it that can be found, and it's the right thing to do.
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#315Just checked while on mullvad, that's a lot of porn....
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#316What does it mean that I can see there are 256 comments on this article from the comment count, but only one (from flak48) is visible to me?
I also had this problem, on my end it appears to be resolved now.
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#318Well 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.
Where I am currently in India, the ISP does provider-level NAT: multiple customers are on the same IPv4 address. No idea how many. This thing is showing around a dozen movies (a mixture of English and local language, plus it looks like someone wants to become a web developer) being downloaded per day, and I’m confident none of them are coming from the local network I’m attached to. This NAT is also a right pain, because there are always at least one or two strains of malware running on the address, so that it’s always on at least one or two blacklists, which causes the occasional problem. As an example, earlier today I couldn’t access ConvertKit’s Terms of Service page at all because Wordfence didn’t like my IP address. (But it only blocked access to that one page. Weird.) It was worse when I was here 3–4 years ago: at that time, the IP address was on most of the blacklists, and each and every site protected by Cloudflare would complain and require a CAPTCHA before it would let you in. (Though at least it would let you in, unlike Wordfence today.) It’s times like that when you realise viscerally just how much of the internet is behind Cloudflare.
Back in 2012, the same ISP was intercepting all DNS (!) and serving OpenDNS with the stupid give-you-a-search-page-instead-of-an-NXDOMAIN-response thing that they had back then, forcibly enabled.
Hopefully the copy of “Avast Premium Security 20.2.2401 (Build 20.2.5130) Final + Serial” someone downloaded will help them clear the malware out, rather than make things worse.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
Because I haven't heard about it before this comment? I am taking a look now, it looks interesting. I usually like to download the whole files anyway and keep them on my external big drive to make sure I have them when a movie stops being popular and becomes harder to find on torrents. Also, I have an external projector that can play movies from a USB and having the full file available for me to copy onto the USB in…
If you want to use Plex you will need something to run the player on (the library and server would live in your seedbox).
Years ago people used to build PCs for that (HTPCs). These days you can get 4K HDR with the Plex player running on a smart TV or one of those set-top-boxes (Nvidia Shield TV, Apple TV, etc). It's like your own private Netflix.
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#320I've got a fair number of torrents I've been seeding for who knows how long.
And this site says I don't have anything.
I don't use a VPN, but I use an invite-only tracker.