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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by mulmen »

Terretta wrote: post #330
mulmen wrote: post #42

Off topic but this raises a question about iMesssage parsing of URLs. I copied just the base URL (without my IP, so he would get his) and sent this to a friend. The preview in iMessage lists my IP, because iMessage actually visited the link. Does the message he receives show his IP or mine? e: Just tested this, it shows my IP on the receiving end. It appears iMessage creates the preview text on the sender’s side so t…

This feature is a “very good thing” so you can’t force someone to disclose their whereabouts to you by sending them a link to the server you control. If you don’t want to send people your own info in the thumbnail, don’t send them thumbs of URLs that display your own info to you in image or title text when generating the preview on your device.

I don't believe iOS gives me an option to control that. iMessage parses any URL you paste and send. I'll double check the settings though.

e: apparently this can be accomplished by putting periods before and after the link or pasting the link in a sentence.

First quack: https://osxdaily.com/2018/08/02/disable-url-link-previews-me...

Still need to test the behavior.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by cutemonster »

tekstar wrote: post #132
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…

I used to work at a ~100 person company that provided satellite equipment, mostly to media companies - radio stations, movie distributors, that type of thing. A senior customer service rep realized he had VPN access to a customer's, like.. T1 line. He started torrenting movies on it. On the CUSTOMERS network. Our entire company was nearly taken offline and the customer threatened cancelling the entire contract and su…

This customer service rep, how was otherwise his work performance / output? How was he like to work with?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by toxik »

gpm wrote: post #456
toxik wrote: post #446

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t you just scp it at that point?

Hypothesizing - that would be more prone to network failure, torrents are very robust against either peer temporarily losing an internet connection.

That’s actually a good point, and it’d be real easy to spread to a third person were it necessary

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by PopeRigby »

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!

Interesting. If I use ProtonVPN, one of the Australian IPs is blocked globally.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by phendrenad2 »

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

- company apartment

I guess there's a reason company generally aren't allowed to provide housing in many countries. Some things should just be separate...

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by lioeters »

tekstar wrote: post #132
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…

I used to work at a ~100 person company that provided satellite equipment, mostly to media companies - radio stations, movie distributors, that type of thing. A senior customer service rep realized he had VPN access to a customer's, like.. T1 line. He started torrenting movies on it. On the CUSTOMERS network. Our entire company was nearly taken offline and the customer threatened cancelling the entire contract and su…

Wow, a classic case of "What were they thinking?"..

> a senior customer service rep

If an intern or new hire was guilty, it'd be more understadable. Perhaps, being senior, they got too comfortable with the power they wielded - but without the tech savvy to understand the consequences.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by alashow »

411111111111111 wrote: post #371
sn_master wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Check out emby instead. It's open source and you won't get locked out of your own media if your internet connection is down

or better, jellyfin.org

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by dleslie »

Cyph0n wrote: post #421
dingaling wrote: post #349

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> Laughs in Usenet The rise in pirate binary groups is what killed Usenet feeds on most ISPs. I used to be a great follower of text groups but it became more and more difficult to find a feed and the overall signal:noise ratio faded. Eventually I gave up. Thanks for nothing, you folks who want to watch other people's content for free.

I don’t get this argument at all. Are you saying that the rise of online forums and then social media had absolutely nothing to do with it?

Not the person you're responding to, but I had a similar experience.

There were basically a few stages:

1. The Eternal September, and it was dark and cold.

2. The rise of the spam bots, and it became filthy.

3. The weight of the binaries, and ISPs began to shy away.

4. The popularity of PHPBB, and The Eternal September began to wane.

5. The binaries grew heavier, the spam more pervasive, and more and more human peers found their access dropped by their ISPs.

NNTP was glorious while it lasted, but it died by its popularity.

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