I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…
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I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…
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#2This service is BS. I just went there and it gave me a random torrent, "Jennifer Lopez Papi" (or something like that). I wouldn't get anything of JLo's, even if they gave it to me free.
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#3Since I don't use torrents at all (unless if software uses it for updates but I am not aware of anything I currently use that does), it might not be too interesting.
However, the next time I share WiFi with someone, this may be quite useful.
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#4They are probably not taking dynamic IPs in mind. But the idea is interesting.
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#5They claim they can track 20% of the public torrents people download, and I suspect it's a very specific 20% corresponding to certain trackers and certain torrent clients. I wonder what they are.
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#6I don't use BitTorrent very often (because I have incoming connections for that torrent in my router's state table for years after I do so), but there were a few things I wanted to download today so I just spun up an EC2 instance, installed Transmission, and did it from there. A 38GiB Blu-Ray image took about two hours. The next time I want to do this, I'll have a completely new IP address.
Is this a terrible idea?
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#7This service is BS. I just went there and it gave me a random torrent, "Jennifer Lopez Papi" (or something like that). I wouldn't get anything of JLo's, even if they gave it to me free.
Somebody did from the IP address you seem to be using.
Either you are behind a masquerading NAT, or perhaps your ISP rotates IP addresses and somebody else was using your address the other day, or just maybe your WiFi router isn't as secure as you hoped, or...
The service neatly highlights the caveats of matching people to IP addresses.
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#8I don't use BitTorrent very often (because I have incoming connections for that torrent in my router's state table for years after I do so), but there were a few things I wanted to download today so I just spun up an EC2 instance, installed Transmission, and did it from there. A 38GiB Blu-Ray image took about two hours. The next time I want to do this, I'll have a completely new IP address. Is this a terrible idea?
It depends what you're tying to guard yourself against. It's not like Amazon isn't keeping track of who owned that IP at that time.
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#9I don't use BitTorrent very often (because I have incoming connections for that torrent in my router's state table for years after I do so), but there were a few things I wanted to download today so I just spun up an EC2 instance, installed Transmission, and did it from there. A 38GiB Blu-Ray image took about two hours. The next time I want to do this, I'll have a completely new IP address. Is this a terrible idea?
Probably, because Amazon has a record of your EC2's instance IP address (even if you only use it for a few hours, I'm sure it's logged somewhere), and if they get a subpoena from the MPAA or similar they might be forced to give them your personal information, in which case you could receive a nastygram from their lawyers.
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#10Weird, I downloaded 4-5 episodes of an unlicensed series and only one of them got tracked.
I'm fairly sure all torrent were from the same source and used the same trackers, but I could be wrong.
Not to mention I use torrents extensively but they only had one torrent on my "file".