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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by bluedino »

inetsee wrote: post #345
Wistar wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked at a place where, one morning, the guy in the next office over got swarmed by company security and the police. He was trafficking in child porn on the company network. He was a super smart, super dumb guy who lost everything over it, his wife, custody of his kids, friends and a very high-paying career. His car sat in the company garage for weeks.

I worked on a secure project a very long time ago. A very smart guy (he was working on the operating system for a military avionics computer) printed out some child porn photos on a company color printer. (This was long enough ago that good quality color printers were very expensive, not like now when you can buy a color printer for less than $100.) He got walked out. I don't know what other consequences he suffered.…

I worked somewhere that had that happen. The FBI showed up with Yahoo messenger logs from our IP address, they wanted to take our file servers etc (he didn’t save anything on our network, but was signing into those sites while at work)

They ended up having to come back the next day with a new warrant because he was at a branch office but their internet was from a point to point connected to the main office.

They took his pc and I provided them with a months worth of squid logs. We had just spent like $4500 on a new CAD workstation for him.

He’s still in prison.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by balls187 »

sn_master wrote: post #112

I've been using a Seedbox since December 2014. Best 15$/month I pay. You can even pay with Bitcoin, tho I just use PayPal. 2 TB of storage, very fast speed with caching (i.e. some torrents finish immediately if someone else has it downloaded). An uncached Blu-ray ~4 GB movie gets finished in 15-30 mins. They also have auto-delete feature. If they get a legal complaint they just delete the offending torrent and keep m…

Curious why pay $15/mo for a seedbox just to securely pirate content.

No judgement, just curiosity.

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Post by mindfulhack »

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…

I just checked a few links sent back and forth between me and another iMessage friend, both from within Messages.app on my Mac, and the synced Messages app on my iPhone. I don't see any IPs being displayed at the end of URL strings when I copy and paste the link from the generated previews. My friend would have definitely only ever sent links from their iPhone, but often I would send mine from the Mac.

How exactly do you find these leaked IPs?

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Post by jki275 »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #492
sevenf0ur wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show in history. I remember when the first 4 episodes of season 5 were leaked at once. Christmas came early!

Yup. Entirely HBO's fault too. I don't know why they didn't offer HBO GO with a paid subscription. Missed out on so many sales.

It was on HBO Now, which you could get with a paid subscription. It's how I watched it in Japan.

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Post by sp332 »

sbarre wrote: post #140
carstenhag wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What, you only get emails ? In Germany you straight up get snail mails from lawyers demanding you to pay for the damages. But in Germany the only real bad thing is uploading, downloading by itself is more of a grey thing.

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…

Well if they actually decide to sue the customer, and get a court order, they could force the ISP to identify them. But that's way more trouble than it's worth in most cases.

And safe harbor laws mean that as long as the ISP is adhering to the notice-and-notice policies, they can't be directly sued for infringement.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by mindfulhack »

Given the numerous examples of false positives / false attribution able to be extrapolated from this website's claims, I wonder if it is giving its owner(s) / operator(s) considerable legal risk.

By calling itself "I know what you download, dot com", it's potentially suggesting that "you are your IP address", thus suggesting that it is usable evidence for others to use against "you", when it actually could not be the case at all. IANAL, but this site seems legally problematic.

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Post by Xortl »

tomc1985 wrote: post #562
joe463369 wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It feels so weird to grow up in an age of rampant, unabashed piracy, where literally everyone around you is burning CDs or cracking games or handing out copied mixtapes, and see questions like these. It just goes to show how thoroughly streaming squashed piracy (at least before everything fractured into the current landscape), and how short our collective memories are. Data yearns to be free -- sharing it and copying…

If someone puts great effort and cost into producing media, why would others be entitled to get the fruits of that labor for free? Game of Thrones is a luxury, not a necessity; people aren't entitled to it just because they want it and refuse to pay for it.

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Post by clashmeifyoucan »

Santosh83 wrote: post #12

Well my ISP gives out a dynamic IP address each time my DSL modem connects to them, so this tactic only reveals who downloaded what when they were assigned my current IP. Nothing much can be inferred from this data unless you are the ISP or govt and can tie the IP to the subscriber. And yes, it shows my IP downloaded the movie Zombieland, which I never did, so it is some other subscriber of the same ISP.

yeah at first I thought this was a prank and it just randomly shows you a lot of porn and movies and games and stuff (I mean who torrents porn?). Now I am not sure if other people on my ISP have bad taste / are dumb or a combination of both.

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Post by rafaelvasco »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #466
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...

Never knew this was a thing. Btw, it's appalling to see more and more companies these days are doing everything they can to keep employees working as much time as possible, while paying the smallest amount of money possible. They do everything: Provide breakfast, lunch and dinner, videogames, massage service, you name it.

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Post by II2II »

tomc1985 wrote: post #562
joe463369 wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It feels so weird to grow up in an age of rampant, unabashed piracy, where literally everyone around you is burning CDs or cracking games or handing out copied mixtapes, and see questions like these. It just goes to show how thoroughly streaming squashed piracy (at least before everything fractured into the current landscape), and how short our collective memories are. Data yearns to be free -- sharing it and copying…

Is it weird?

We may have DRM and walled gardens, but media distribution is much more consumer friendly than it used to be.

There are many services that offer streaming at a flat rate, where you can watch or listen what you please and when you please without being subjected to third-party advertising. You can also subscribe and unsubscribe with ease, without paying additional fees. Contrast that to prior decades where none of that was true.

There are other services that offer perpetual licenses (I am hesitant to call them purchases) of books, music, videos, and software. You can access that content across multiple devices. In some cases you can even legally acquire it without DRM. Contrast that to early digital media. I remember floppy based software that would disable the installation media once it was installed to a hard drive. You could not re-download your music in the early days of iTunes, and they were considered consumer friendly.

I doubt that many people actually expected information to be free. What they wanted was for information to be convenient and cheap. As for those who actually did want information to be free, there are options out there that respect the creator's wishes (creative commons licensing, open source, etc.).

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