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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Waterluvian »

zzzeek wrote: post #563
Waterluvian wrote: post #556

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I once pirated a Tv show and was accidentally on my work VPN for a portion of it. Had a moment of being a bit frozen and scared. Decided to email the IT head and explain the situation. I got a “thanks for letting me know” and that was it. Not as big a deal as my head conjured up. I could have done the wrong thing though and made it a big deal.

"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me." - your company's IT guy

So funny. But seriously, always be super nice to IT. They might be present during your most frustrating days but don’t make them feel the blame. They’re one of your best allies.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by freeflight »

cyberdrunk wrote: post #652
freeflight wrote: post #519

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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 we…

I'm not living in Germany, but am downloading torrents (to watch stuff unavailable via HBO/Netflix) via VPN which terminates in Germany. I wonder if the VPN company is getting shitloads of those C&D letters and if they can ever blow back on me.

That would depend on the specific VPN ToS.

Afaik the worst they could do is cancel your service/subscription because the c&d letter is addressed to the owner of the connection, which in your case would be the VPN company.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by crtasm »

wil421 wrote: post #597
j79 wrote: post #583

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> "What were they thinking?" There were sites that tracked ratio which required maintaining a certain ratio to continue to be a member. Some members, however, took pride in having a ratio that skewed uploads over downloads. I personally know people who paid for T1s just to maintain their "rep" of having the highest upload ratio. Not saying this is the case, but having access to a T1 back in the day was almost a way t…

I can remember someone denying me an invite to a private tracker because I might “hurt his ratio”. He eventually relented but it was a hassle. My internet was faster than his at the time so it was a factor for sure.

Was he giving you access to his account? I can't see any way that inviting you to register your own account could let you affect his ratio.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by legopelle »

wil421 wrote: post #597
j79 wrote: post #583

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> "What were they thinking?" There were sites that tracked ratio which required maintaining a certain ratio to continue to be a member. Some members, however, took pride in having a ratio that skewed uploads over downloads. I personally know people who paid for T1s just to maintain their "rep" of having the highest upload ratio. Not saying this is the case, but having access to a T1 back in the day was almost a way t…

I can remember someone denying me an invite to a private tracker because I might “hurt his ratio”. He eventually relented but it was a hassle. My internet was faster than his at the time so it was a factor for sure.

Many private trackers may ban you if one of your invitees misbehave.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by tekstar »

cutemonster wrote: post #462
tekstar wrote: post #132

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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?

He was the right mix of gruff, smarmy, shady, and heroic to go pretty far at that company.

That company no longer exists except as a line item in some other company's deprecating assets

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by ktm5j »

proverbialbunny wrote: post #223
ktm5j wrote: post #163

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My modem has had the same IP for nearly 10 years now! It's the same even after several moves, one to a new county. Super convenient, but that's the nicest thing I have to say about Comcast. Boy I wish there were other options.

Yep, Comcast ties your modem's mac address to an IP address. However, if your modem is off long enough for a new user in your area to need a new IP address, they'll snatch up yours. Also, 10 years? I guess DOCSIS 3.0 has been around that long. That's pretty impressive.

I recently got a docsis 3.1 modem, you have to call and activate the MAC. They just used the same IP, conveniently enough.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by def8cefe »

ooobit2 wrote: post #611
cutemonster wrote: post #462

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

I've fired people for having less wherewithal than to ask a question like this. His performance, output, or attitude are irrelevant. He knowingly used company property to violate federal law... IP law at that. Guy should be lucky he didn't get sued for gross negligence.

>I've fired people for having less wherewithal than to ask a question like this.

Can you explain what this sentence means?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by crtasm »

sn_master wrote: post #148
chimeracoder wrote: post #145

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> Even better? I can use the 2 TB for whatever I want, not just for the torrents. That's cheaper than most cloud storage plans for just dummy storage without any torrenting features! To be clear: you're presumably not paying for redundancy there (which you usually are with cloud providers), so you're trading price for an increased risk of data loss, which may or may not matter to you.

I understand. I have a paid Dropbox and GDrive accounts which I use for important data. Having a 2 TB storage that I can use to share whatever I want with others or even across my devices is pretty useful for those cases. I have downloaded data there since I created my account that still is safe and available after almost 5 years.

GP's point is that it's not safe, without redundancy when the drive on your seedbox eventually dies - everything on it is lost.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by throwaway8941 »

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…

> the software has a bad config and skips the VPN and uses your actual connection

Just stuff it into a separate network namespace. It's easy to do with firejail, but can also be done manually (firejail automatically configures the IP address, the routing table, and so on.)

  $ cat /etc/firejail/qbittorrent.local
  
  net        enp3s0
  ip         192.168.100.201
  dns        1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1
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