Also, doesn't work if your service provider provides dynamic IPs.
I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…
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#12I 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?
Brilliant idea! I will have to try this next time.
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#13"Hi. We have no records on you."
Just got that for the past 2 or 3 connections I've used in the past few weeks. It might not be very good, but at least it seems inclined to falsely testify for one's innocence.
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#14Interesting removal terms. They pretty much force you to admit that you downloaded, whatever they say you downloaded in order to have your data removed. Immediately after having confirmed your real identity via Facebook, of course. They could sell this information to MPAA and RIAA for gold.
The Details:
By submitting a request to have your download activity removed from our database, you are acknowledging that the activity was, in fact, carried out by yourself. This means that you are only submitting a request to have the details of your own personal activity deleted. Any unrecognized activity, such as files you did not download or do not remember downloading, are not — I repeat, are not to be included in your removal request. Why is this imperative? Well, we actually don’t have to explain ourselves...sorry.
The important part is that you understand these terms and conditions before hitting that beautiful button that will erase your criminal back ground, at least for now. Wait, you did remember to read these terms before making the decision to submit a removal request, right? Of course you did, everyone reads the fine print.
Other Important Things to Consider: We make no guarantees that your information will not appear on any other databases. We may have erased your bad behavior but, keep in mind that your data on this site is aggregated public domain. So, if by chance, another sadistic group of people decides to open a similar web site, we have no control over what they do with your information. Furthermore, if you continue to involve yourself in activity like this, your future download history will, without a doubt, appear in our database again and we may not be as nice about it next time.
If any part of these terms is still unclear, please visit your local elementary school and ask to repeat grades 3 through 5.
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#15I am surprised about the high quality taste other people have who share this VPN. Csikszentmihalyi, Ebook Libraries, Stephen Merchant - proud of my fellow anonymists.
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#16Interesting removal terms. They pretty much force you to admit that you downloaded, whatever they say you downloaded in order to have your data removed. Immediately after having confirmed your real identity via Facebook, of course. They could sell this information to MPAA and RIAA for gold. The Details: By submitting a request to have your download activity removed from our database, you are acknowledging that the ac…
Indeed. That's pretty shady. In my mind it transforms this site from "amusing exercise in internet privacy resarch" to "borderline extortion". It's also not a contract or affidavit, though. There's legally nothing to prevent you from lying to them AFAICT.
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#17I 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. Do you ever want to be able to rely on Amazon Web Services as a piece of your business infrastructure at any point in the rest of your life? You're putting that in jeopardy by using EC2 for illegal purposes; Amazon could well ban you from the service if a copyright holder outs you.
Amazon has no reason to be lenient here, especially given how ICE (DHS) has been handling copyright infringement...
That's a lot to risk. I'd rather upset my own ISP than upset Amazon -- Amazon is potentially more valuable to me. At least pick a cloud provider you don't intend to ever use for anything else.
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#18I 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.
I guess it would protect you against someone being able to tie all your torrent downloads to a single IP and/or person without a significant amount of effort.
In general, it only takes a lawsuit over one torrent to ruin you though.
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#19The last lecture of my P2P Systems and Overlay Networks class was about Anonymity. I should probably go over the slides once again.
EDIT: This was a paper about file sharing anonymity, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/herbivore-esigop...
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#20Interesting removal terms. They pretty much force you to admit that you downloaded, whatever they say you downloaded in order to have your data removed. Immediately after having confirmed your real identity via Facebook, of course. They could sell this information to MPAA and RIAA for gold. The Details: By submitting a request to have your download activity removed from our database, you are acknowledging that the ac…
Indeed. That's pretty shady. In my mind it transforms this site from "amusing exercise in internet privacy resarch" to "borderline extortion". It's also not a contract or affidavit, though. There's legally nothing to prevent you from lying to them AFAICT.
To top that off, the company running the site is American, not Russian: XMLSHOP LLC.