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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by TheRealPomax »

d33 wrote: post #355
TheRealPomax wrote: post #208

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I'm struggling to understand what's creepy about this. If seeing your entire download history on that website was shocking, that's really more a measure of how much you know you've been breaking the law than anything else: there is no PII anywhere in what this service does, it just retains information about which IP (which on its own doesn't identify anyone in the slightest) was seen connected to which torrent payloa…

They flat out encourage you to spy on other people's downloaded torrents. How's that not creepy? The argument that they only display what they collected and everyone could do that doesn't change the fact that it's them that do that and they're really indiscreet with this data.

Because it doesn't, it lets you look at what other IPs have been doing.

(certainly not "spy", this is literally public information that anyone connecting to torrents over DHT gets to see. And if you didn't realise torrent connection was public information, then this should be a moment of learning)

It doesn't become creepy until you can identify individuals, or groups of individuals, based on your knowledge of which IPs they use, so as much as you probably don't want to hear this: if you look up not-your-own-IP, you're engaging in creeping. Not the service.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by techstrategist »

lucb1e wrote: post #340

How does it know whether certain IPs are static? It labels XS4ALL's residential range correctly as static but surely the owners of this site didn't investigate a random Dutch ISP to find out whether they rotate IP addresses. Is there s registry for this sort of thing? It's not in the whois info that I can see.

I’m also curious whether this is legal in the Netherlands. Certainly strange that it’s encouraging me to check on my neighbors to see what they’ve downloaded.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by arein2 »

sixothree wrote: post #324
debacle wrote: post #212

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The flip side: When I was an intern I once had four people arrive at my desk (including an HR lawyer) for torrenting ubuntu server. Thankfully I shared a cube wall with someone smart enough to realize the confusion, and explain me out of being walked out. They were monitoring for torrent traffic, but weren't paying attention to what was being torrented. Apparently a company-wide warning had gone out the week before I…

Not long after we started WFH I needed to share a pre-configured VM with a coworker. We tried all sorts of stuff and finally just decided to torrent it. Zipped it up tight with a password and private torrented it overnight. Next morning we were up and running.

Has anyone got WebRTC’s file sharing to work?

You find a website that creates a link between 2 clients, and the file is shared via https (maybe the file is decrypted at the server and encrypted again using your public key). Sounds easy if both clients don’t have a public IP (to get SCP to work, at least one client needs a public IP) and every browser now has WebRTC.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by yllorepap »

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

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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.

It’s like someone invented a spell that copies and shares things for free, but using this spell is illegal. Imagine if it was a spell that copied food. Morally this would be good as people would no longer be hungry. I think we also have a hunger for entertainment and being able to share in this entertainment with others.

I’m not going buy something that can be copied for free. I also consider this a vote against the “machine“ that produces this media. I’m happy if the distribution and production system fails and something new is born. I think then things will be created by people who love creating things.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by kalium-xyz »

mulmen wrote: post #195
kalium-xyz wrote: post #133

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Interesting, I didnt realize I could get people their IP by simply sending them my website without them even ever having to visit it themselves

Based on my limited testing you can’t. And that makes sense because I could make your device visit a URL just by sending you a message.

Thats what I said: I can send you my website and I will see your device visit it even if you dont want it to.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by kohtatsu »

efreak wrote: post #657
iNeal wrote: post #347

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I believe they meant you only need it for a couple hours max so with the hourly rate it'd only be less than $0.02

IIRC they have a minimum payment. You need to put $5 in your account. Not sure what they do if you pay by subscription and only use a few hours, but when I was using DO, you needed to fund your account with $5 even if you were using the $100 free credit from GitHub education.

This is the case for PayPal and Visa debits, but not credit cards IIRC.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by alashow »

dndvr wrote: post #549
alashow wrote: post #472

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Check out https://www.premiumize.me/ref/971622042 , been using it for 3 years.

Tell us why we should.. Is that a referral link?

It's a seedbox, what's more to say? Check the details on their website.

Yes, it's a referral link. What's wrong with that?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by lucb1e »

techstrategist wrote: post #733
lucb1e wrote: post #340

How does it know whether certain IPs are static? It labels XS4ALL's residential range correctly as static but surely the owners of this site didn't investigate a random Dutch ISP to find out whether they rotate IP addresses. Is there s registry for this sort of thing? It's not in the whois info that I can see.

I’m also curious whether this is legal in the Netherlands. Certainly strange that it’s encouraging me to check on my neighbors to see what they’ve downloaded.

I'm not sure about the legality. Pretty sure that GDPR says you have to inform people before you process (store, transmit, etc.) their personal data (like IP+timestamp), but in practice it's often afterwards or not at all. The speed camera doesn't have to tell you what data will be collected and what your rights are before giving you a ticket and the trajectcontrole doesn't tell you anything at all (if you didn't drive too fast) despite processing your license plate.

I'm not sure why that is legal, so then perhaps collecting this without a legal basis (consent, fulfillment of a contract, vital interest of the data subject, etc.) is also legal, but that doesn't exempt the site from the right to view your data or the right to object to having your data processed if there is no grounds for it.

Of course, there are no repercussions if the domain is registered and hosted in a country that doesn't tell the EU who's behind it or doesn't do extradition and there are no European assets to cease. Worst they can do then is block the site from Europe like they did with The Pirate Bay and similar sites.

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