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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by megablast »

jjice wrote: post #167
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…

Couldn't the intern have paid for his own bare bones VPS and done it from there? Or used a different paid VPN service, which cost roughly the same ~$5? Seems like the cost of a VPN compared to the value of his internship wouldn't even compare. All for some campus clout.

Yeah, interns have so much money.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by pfranz »

kanox wrote: post #594

I have a static IP and it shows a whole bunch of unfamiliar torrents. What am I missing, how could it show false positives for a specific IP?

It seems correct for me. A bunch of Linux ISOs. It is missing some I've been seeding from http://academictorrents.com/

Others mentioned having an ISP level NAT. Could that be it?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by wil421 »

Tepix wrote: post #44
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.

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.

Comcast assigns you an IP based on the MAC address of your modem and the only way to change it is to get a new modem. When I had AT&T it could change at anytime.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by lxe »

fortran77 wrote: post #374
inetsee wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

See "The Rise and Fall of Patrick Naughton" https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-patrick-n...

That was so brief... Nowadays articles like this are 10 times as long and detailed.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by stevenwliao »

waheoo wrote: post #532
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.

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 an…

> a business model that works through product placement

I pay because I don't want video blogspam and advertorials. There's lots on QVC that you can watch if you want to support that style of content.

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Post by goatsi »

svnpenn wrote: post #557
goatsi wrote: post #536

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not sure what you are talking about, I have been using this for years to generate new IPs.

Private IPs on local networks (192.168.0.0/16, etc), or globally routed IPs assigned from your ISPs netblock?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Wistar »

rightbyte wrote: post #459
Wistar wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I knew him well and he was well-liked and professionally well-regarded throughout at least my division of the company. He was a high-energy, tireless guy with great ideas and worked nearly daily with senior-level management, often traveling with them all over the world. I, along with a whole lot of others, were absolutely dumbstruck by his profound fall from grace.

Ye I guess seeming like a nice person doesn't prove or disprove anything, but lets not dive to far into your colocated worker's case, but generally. I had a malware once that distributed (legal) porn. Since then I have had that in the back of my head when reading about child porn. I mean, what more effective way to ruin someones life by framing without having to involve yourself physically by planting drugs etc. It d…

Is there some reason you thought I was going to "dive further?"

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by refurb »

waheoo wrote: post #532
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.

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 an…

This just reads like a list of excuses. You could swap “piracy” with “selling drugs” and “entertainment industry” with “big pharma” and it would read just fine.
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