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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by CamperBob2 »

joe463369 wrote: post #455
toxik wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GoT season 8 is something that happened to me, not something I enjoyed. Like a bully ruining your sand castle after a long day at the beach.

How does that work? Do you watch programmes, then send off a cheque to HBO if it meets your standards?

It's probably fairly common among people who want to be able to access content freely while preserving an internal sense of ethical behavior.

That's basically what I did with a certain popular TV series. I'd torrent the individual episodes, then buy the DVD box sets at the end of the season to pay for it. When it became clear that the writers didn't actually have any idea what they were doing (which was a topic of no small debate at the time), I stopped buying the box sets.

Whether I stopped torrenting it is neither here nor there, but let's just say that the peer comment ("The last season wasn't something I enjoyed, it was something that happened to me") really rung a bell with me. Later, the same story repeated itself with another popular show on a different network, at which point I just disengaged with TV for good.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by waheoo »

joe463369 wrote: post #419
sho wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Philosophical line in the sand.

Media companies have abused laws and rights that are supposed to encourage and enrich society not diminish and stifle it.

They're beyond redemption at this point. The whole industry can burn at the stake for all I care. Netflix included. (Why does it matter what country I live in again? Why do you remove access to certain shows st random?)

The only media I pay for willingly is books and that is purely because amazon did such a great job of rejecting the authors guild and creating an atleast seemingly competitive market.

If media companies want my money they need to stop suing their largest customers.

They need to stop lobbying my government to enforce their governments rules.

They need to respect fair use.

They need to understand that it no longer costs anything to produce a copy and they are more than capable of finding a business model that works through the use of product placement. Hell they could run ads on their self listed torrents and I wouldnt bother reripping or looking for one without the ads.

Theyre way too focused on producing profits and protectionism than where they should be focused. Creating great entertainment and enriching society.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by dom96 »

So VPNs nowadays are meant to protect from this, but how can someone trust a VPN not to sell the details of what you've been downloading? Is it really worthwhile to use one when the VPN provider may actually in some cases be more likely to sell this data?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by jandrese »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #458
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

Explain the lawsuit?

A few years ago there was a legal firm that specialized in tracking down people from their IP on porn torrents on the assumption that they wouldn't want their name in the public record and would settle for 5 figures. The law firm doing it was so shady they ended up losing the suits and having a judge tell them to knock it off.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by goatsi »

svnpenn wrote: post #518
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://github.com/sietseringers/MACAddressTool

That's only for Windows, you would need to change the MAC address on the router WAN port for the ISP to notice.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by sbierwagen »

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 paid for a dedicated server with an unmetered 100mbit connection back in the day. (More than a decade ago, now that I think about it) I wasn't using it for much, so I decided to be a good citizen and run a Tor exit node on it. No filters, every port, why not? What could go wrong?

Well, it turns out you can run bittorrent over Tor. Got dozens of DMCA emails, host took the server down within 24 hours. Taught me a lesson on being nice.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by gtirloni »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #529

Is this supposed to be a hoax? Just tried my home Internet, static IP, secure WiFi, in COVID lockdown, so no visitors. Myself and my wife only (besides a toddler and baby). Wife doesn't normally use a computer (just mobile) and has no clue how to torrent. Site claims we torrented some MP3 three days ago; I had to Google the name of the artist. If it's not a hoax then my best bet is some seriously impressive JS malwar…

It's based on IP addresses. If your ISP recycles yours, it could very well be another customer that got your current IP days ago.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by sbierwagen »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #458
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

Explain the lawsuit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by gdubs »

lioeters wrote: post #467
tekstar wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The fictional character “Dollar Bill” from the show Billions comes to mind.
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