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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by gcbw3 »

peterbmarks wrote: post #394

How does this work? I thought the whole idea of the torrent protocol was to prevent identification of who downloads what.

you should forget whatever you read and start over :)

The purpose of it is exactly to help you find other peers with the same content. It's a bunch of peer finding protocols on top of each other. Trackers, DHT, peer xchange, etc, etc

I mean, the data itself is all hashes, but very public hashes. Unless you hashed it yourself and shared only the hash ever, the reverse hash is a websearch away.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by cactus2093 »

peterbmarks wrote: post #394

How does this work? I thought the whole idea of the torrent protocol was to prevent identification of who downloads what.

Not sure where you got that idea, maybe you're mixing up torrents with Tor or with gray area VPN services that people use while torrenting to anonymize themselves.

The whole reason you can google "____ Torrent" and get results is because there are torrent trackers out there that, well, track which IP addresses have which files. The same thing that allows those to exist allows someone to watch and record who is downloading which torrents. Which is what movie studios and the like are doing as well when they send out copyright warnings based on torrenting.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by gcbw3 »

p1necone wrote: post #386

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?

You client is politely sending items your peers are requesting, to try to find peers for them in your peer network, without having to flood everyone with irrelevant peer lists.

And this site (which i guess is just a couple lines of python collecting the data) is not bothering to distinguish any of the finer details.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by nickfromseattle »

- Was 26

- Moved into company apartment

- Torrented stuff

- Company received a $30k lawsuit for downloading porn on company network

- Hear CEO talking to lawyers (open office)

- 99% sure it was me

- Come clean to CEO

- Was actually another c-suite who forgot they were logged into the VPN

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by p1necone »

gcbw3 wrote: post #403
p1necone wrote: post #386

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?

You client is politely sending items your peers are requesting, to try to find peers for them in your peer network, without having to flood everyone with irrelevant peer lists. And this site (which i guess is just a couple lines of python collecting the data) is not bothering to distinguish any of the finer details.

Ah, this makes sense because the first seen and last seen columns are the same for all the stuff I didn't download, but for the one thing I noticed that I do actually recognize there's a gap between first and last seen.

Of course I imagine if two peers were looking for the same thing a few hours a part this wouldn't work to identify stuff either.

EDIT: Is there any way to stop it from doing this? I don't want law enforcement to mistakenly use this as evidence that I actually downloaded anything.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

Pxtl wrote: post #55

This kind of thing is already done heavily by content rights-holders. If you torrent movies or games in Canada without a VPN, you will get nastygrams in your email from the rights-holders via your ISP. They're legally required to do so AFAIK, because even consumer-oriented ISPs that are very privacy driven also forward on those letters. Apparently if you don't reply to those emails you're fine, because they can't esc…

We should really stop calling copyright infringement 'piracy'. Piracy is a violent penal crime which results in a theft of property by the use of physical force / weapons. Accepting this label helps media conglomerates distort the public perception of the issue into their favor.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by hayleox »

nickfromseattle wrote: post #404

- Was 26 - Moved into company apartment - Torrented stuff - Company received a $30k lawsuit for downloading porn on company network - Hear CEO talking to lawyers (open office) - 99% sure it was me - Come clean to CEO - Was actually another c-suite who forgot they were logged into the VPN

What happened next? Did they punish you?
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