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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by michaelt »

wccrawford wrote: post #676
adrusi wrote: post #490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can think it's bad to pirate media and still be hard-pressed to care when someone does it.

I feel like that would be a rare soul these days. People are so prone to screaming about every little "sin", even if it's really nothing. It's like they can't distinguish between things that are bad and things that are unconscionably bad, and scream at the same volume regardless.

> I feel like that would be a rare soul these days.

Remember, there's a big selection bias on that impression.

After all, the people who think it's none of their business if X at work is sleeping on the job don't post about it on social media.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by smichel17 »

ivanovb wrote: post #65
Tepix wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My IP hasn't changed in about a year, although it is supposed to be dynamic. On the other hand I use extensively a torrent tracker and the site shows nothing.

It'll usually change if you power cycle your modem.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by smichel17 »

AnonC wrote: post #171
carstenhag wrote: post #108

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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.

A BitTorrent client uploads data to other peers who want the data blocks you have already downloaded (even while you're still in the process of downloading the content, depending on the peers in the swarm around that time). I think it'd be difficult to argue technically that you were just downloading and not uploading when using BitTorrent. If you leave the torrent running after the download completes, you're seeding…

Most BitTorrent clients have settings to control whether you are seeding, although they typically default to yes.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by greyhair »

userbinator wrote: post #505
RyJones wrote: post #227

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I worked for a place where our internet was bad, but not that bad. We were coming up to a release and things were fubar. I asked the network guy to find what was up - a guy that reported to me was torrenting child porn.

Reading stories like this makes people think that all pedophiles are stupid, but then again, as with any other crime, it's only the stupid ones who get caught...

One of the reasons most criminals get caught, is because they think they are smarter than all other criminals, and only the stupid ones get caught. No criminal thinks they are stupid.

The ones that don't get caught are typically full on psychopaths, because they are random and don't have an MO that identifies them.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by reportgunner »

ivanovb wrote: post #65
Tepix wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My IP hasn't changed in about a year, although it is supposed to be dynamic. On the other hand I use extensively a torrent tracker and the site shows nothing.

Whe website has to "know" the torrents you downloaded.

If you are downloading obscure or non-english stuff chances are they don't have the torrent and it won't show up on the list.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by reportgunner »

aasasd wrote: post #361
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.

Indeed, not only I'm seeing somebody else's pretty mediocre taste, but I have no idea of my previous ips so can't check real accuracy. However, what does impress me is that somebody downloaded multiple movies and games a day, with books and tailoring instructions thrown in. Dunno if the site counts seeding torrents too, but if not—someone is very busy just consuming all that.

Perhaps it was a whole family:

- games for parent 1

- movies for kids

- tailoring instruction for parent 2

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by teddyh »

greggman3 wrote: post #685
SkyBelow wrote: post #335

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At some point I find it hard to draw a distinction between a library and a torrent. Gotta to avoid legal trouble, but from a moral standpoint outlawing torrents is like outlawing the library.

And making a copy of something that hundreds to even thousands of people worked hundreds of thousands of hours on just because you can also has some negative morals do it. I don't know what analogy to make since all the physical ones fail. Maybe it's like hiring someone for a service and not paying. You get a haircut and don't pay. You hire a lawyer and don't pay. You have an accountant and don't pay. In all of those…

> hundreds to even thousands of people worked hundreds of thousands of hours on

That’s called the “Sweat of the brow” argument, but it isn’t valid in the US:

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

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by stiray »

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…

Another interesting story (as the site is just picking on IP, disregarding dynamic ips, vpns etc.) that might save potential users (for legal cases) some costs. The service is heavly false positive and wrong accusation might be expensive:

https://torrentfreak.com/wrongfully-accused-pirate-wins-4420...

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by sn_master »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #700
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

I am not that good with networks :)

I have a dedicated 25$ tiny baby router (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FJ4S9JK/) configured for VPN one-time. I just disconnect from my main router and connect to it whenever I need VPN. Its pretty fool-proof and easier than setting each OS/software individually and undoing it each time.

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