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I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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#412Thanks for recommendations
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#413How does this work? I thought the whole idea of the torrent protocol was to prevent identification of who downloads what.
The point of the protocol is to distribute data efficiently. It has nothing to do with privacy. Maybe you’re thinking of Tor?
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#414Earlier 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…
There isn't much of a difference between digital media and "services." We'd all agree it would a dick move if I walked out of barbershop without paying, even if the barber didn't have any other available customers at the time.
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#415How does this work? I thought the whole idea of the torrent protocol was to prevent identification of who downloads what.
On the contrary. It is extremely easy to know the IP addresses of all downloading. This is a major problem in PeerTube as well, as you can know what videos someone watch. I'm not up-to-date with this, but last I checked, this was still unsolved.
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#416Since 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.
Yes, but consumer ADSL/cable..are still..within the USA IP Address list block.
By blocking the entire continent, if you are paranoid, you won't be on that list.
I doubt they will engineer much of a solution for non-local markets e.g. UK instance catching USA Ip address, though in the end it is not that hard to move that metadata around.
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#417Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would pay extra for an ISP who only kept those logs say 1 hour. 1 hour should be plenty to identify who is currently running some network attack, and arguably an ISP doesn't have a legit reason for keeping private data longer than necessary to be an ISP under the GDPR .
I wonder if there are any government requirements here for people operating ISPs. Does anyone have any insight into the time range that is required to keep these logs (if there is one)?
Yes there is, at least in EU, not sure for how long do they have to keep the logs.
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#418blackarch-linux-live-2020.06.01-x86_64.iso 14.37GB
I'm totally outed.
Those other IPs in my subnet do like their porn. Well, someone's porn.
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#419An 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…
The only moral problem I have in your anecdote is the lying about it. With every fibre of my being, I could not care less about torrenting game of thrones .
Can you explain why? I can understand why people want things for free, but thinking that you shouldn't contribute towards the production cost of the programme you enjoy seems strange to me.
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#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada currently uses a "notice and notice regime" [0], meaning the rights holder notifies the ISP, who turns around and forwards the notice to the infringing customer, but does not give the rights holder the account information, nor do they take any punitive action towards the customer. However, the ISP must retain historical data on these notices, so if in the future the laws change, rights holders could in theory…
Changing the law takes a fair amount of time, and it would unlikely be retroactive. Not to mention that if everyone is doing it (and it doesn't go against the Charter), good luck legislating against it. Historically, predatory behaviour by media companies in Canada has been pretty badly received by both major parties, which is how we ended up with notice-and-notice, where the emails have a long intro about "this is j…
They can't make something retroactively illegal, but piracy is already illegal. They'd just be retroactively making it harder to get away with. Much like how we've used forensic evidence to put people in jail years later, even if our forensic techniques didn't exist yet at the time of the crime.