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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by loeg »

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?

The protocol is more or less all plaintext. The "best" peer to peer cipher available is rc4; almost no one uses it. The tracker announces can run over HTTPS, but often run over plain HTTP.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by air7 »

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.

how do such services escape the clutches of DMCA? I assume they're used for pirating content.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by ballenf »

NortySpock wrote: post #157
cosmojg wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wouldn't it be ironic if your job arose in part due to demands placed on the internet infrastructure as a result of pirating activity? Or due to pressure on content owners to lower the cost of streaming enough to make it become mainstream? It would be interesting to tally up all the investment into streaming platforms and the supporting software and servers. Without BitTorrent I really wonder how much smaller that market would be. Or if we'd all still be waiting for our discs in the mail or trying to program our DVRs to record the right shows.

Doesn't make copying someone else's work without payment right.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Nextgrid »

air7 wrote: post #382
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.

how do such services escape the clutches of DMCA? I assume they're used for pirating content.

My understanding is that they bank on the fact that takedown operations are relatively slow and starting up from scratch is easy (or even automated), so they fully expect it to get taken down and make as much money as possible in the meantime then rinse and repeat.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by benhurmarcel »

stiray wrote: post #336

I do give you credit of giving people a quick shot how accurate torrent detection can be if you are a casual user not using VPN. Or not using private trackers. But. You dont know and you are clueless that this is not my ip. Furthermore, I have also checked my phone where I have never downloaded any torrent and you are showing 3 movies. This is just scaremongering. I did a few more tests. For multiple private trackers…

This website shows a good 40 downloads from my IP, and I don't recognize a single one. I have torrented some files recently, but they're not in the list. And so far I've never used a VPN, it's unnecessary where I live.

Not very reliable.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by p1necone »

It correctly identifies my torrent client version and the fact that I have a static IP, but none of the things I know I have downloaded are on the list, and a bunch of stuff I haven't is (EDIT: it correctly identified one torrent).

Edit: Could this be due to me having a static ipv6 range, would my ipv4 address that this is looking at be shared by other people?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by amelius »

brutal_chaos_ wrote: post #199
_tbyy wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem here is not recognizing that the piracy was actually the problem. In what way was it forgivable? Because everybody does it, that makes it okie dokie? Because you don't have a Netflix account? If everyone treated piracy as theft (it is) then no one would have to waste their time investigating it because the collective will would exist to prevent it.

> as theft (it is) Are you sure digital piracy is theft? Wikipedia defines theft as: "The taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it." Copies are made, sales (possibly) lost, but no property is being taken such that the owner cannot continue to sell/rent/etc it. My take: I'll pay for whatever streaming service that ha…

My reason: movies and TV shows are a form of storytelling and the execution is often very bad if you care to think about it. Storytelling doesn't need to cost much. Poor storytelling should cost even less. Shows from the 80s were very enjoyable but cost only a fraction of current shows. With current distribution systems, shows should cost even less. And I never asked for a team of 100 CGI artists. I just don't want to contribute to the absurdity of all this.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by netsharc »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #385
stiray wrote: post #336

I do give you credit of giving people a quick shot how accurate torrent detection can be if you are a casual user not using VPN. Or not using private trackers. But. You dont know and you are clueless that this is not my ip. Furthermore, I have also checked my phone where I have never downloaded any torrent and you are showing 3 movies. This is just scaremongering. I did a few more tests. For multiple private trackers…

This website shows a good 40 downloads from my IP, and I don't recognize a single one. I have torrented some files recently, but they're not in the list. And so far I've never used a VPN, it's unnecessary where I live. Not very reliable.

Your ISP is certainly using CGNAT, or maybe IPv6, so multiple subscribers look to be using 1 IPv4.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Hyperborian »

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?

Oh god... you're not under the impression that bittorrent is a secure or anonymous protocol, are you?
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