I wonder how this API could work in terms of travel prep. If you wanted to watch the most torrented films in a given city before coming, seems like it could work out well.
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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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.
The "best" peer to peer cipher available is rc4; almost no one uses it.
...which is unfortunate because even something like the anonymous DH that is specified, or more standard, TLS with random/self-signed certificates, would force monitors to need to MITM all connections in order to find out what they contain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption
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It's potentially less anonymous to the people who might prosecute you. Probably didn't realize how anonymous it wasn't to the employer and didn't factor that cost in to the decision. But if you're willing to $5 to get a show, you're probably less likely to pirate it anyway (or at least be the seed).
As far as I recall, $20 wouldn't even get you a single GoT episode in Australia. As a consequence, Australia had one of the highest piracy rates on GoT / HBO shows.
If you could even download it at any price. At some point people would give up on waiting 6 months for the release, say “fuck it” and just pirate it.
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#515Someone commented that it almost feel impossible because of how stupid some of these situations are. I did tell my entire department,staffed with primarily young people, who just started their professional lives,that private mode in browser will not stop the company ( or me personally) from finding out what they are browsing. The horror on se of those faces!:) Then I did repeat it again to make sure everyone got it. And then, someone asked " and what about our mobiles connected to WiFi?". Yes,those too. Every single website.
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#516Completely innacurate information.
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#517Completely innacurate information and doesn't even know what is being torrented right now.
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Nowadays internet users on cable often keep the same IP address for weeks if not months. Who knows, your ISP could change its configuration tomorrow and always re-assign the same IP address to you as long as its available. I think the point of this website is to show people that using torrents is far from anonymous and invisible.
Yup. I had the same IP address for the entire 3 years I lived in an apartment. Even telling my router to release and renew the IP would still give me the same IP. Only when I moved to a new house (and still used the same ISP) did my IP change.
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If you're in USA or somewhere else with liberal Fair Use then you might not have infringed? I'm not sure there's any caselaw on downloading content you've paid for? Seems very close to format/time shifting to me. Possibly depends if you leeched or not.
I don't think that this argument would hold up in court as you're not just downloading for yourself (which you could argue you have a license to the content), but you're also providing (at least parts) of the content to others. I think this is where you'd definitely get into trouble.
Yup, at least in Germany that's the legal situation: They send out cease&desist letters because torrent upload counts as "sharing the copyrighted work without a license", and because of bit-torrent high connectivity they just assume by default that you are doing it on the "scale of a business", stipulating absurd damage sums.
I once torrented an episode of the show The Americans, my last option as my usual sources were weirdly all offline and it was the middle of a season, the show wasn't even legally distributed in Germany at the time.
Turned out some German publisher picked up the distribution rights to the show and their first action wasn't to make it legally available in Germany, but trying to profit from Germans who followed the show trough piracy by sending out serial c&d letters demanding 800€ payments and stipulating damages in the range of 10k€
It's a pretty wide-spread and annoying situation to such a degree that using public torrent is a very quick way to get expensive mail as there's a whole lot of anti-piracy outfits in Germany that monitor public torrent trackers for German IPs downloading files named after copyrighted works to send out those c&d letters.
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I remember getting an abuse warning from Hetzner as one of our employees was seeding (legal) files via a p2p file sharing framework (IPFS I think?) and the client on his machine sent out broadcast and port scanning requests over the VPN into our Hetzner infrastructure. Hetzner is quite nice in that they dont' immediately block your servers, other providers are less lenient though and such stuff can quickly get your i…
I don't understand what's wrong with port scanning or broadcasting to your own infrastructure that you pay for?
Read the terms of service for most cloud and data center providers. You have to notify them and get permission.