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Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by jks »

dexen wrote: post #7
ajays wrote: post #2

This 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.

I have a static IP, and I'm pretty sure that no-one at my home has downloaded the tv episode this service mentions. It's of course not entirely impossible that someone has hacked my wifi router, but I think that is less probable than it is for some random web service to show some made-up data.

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by wingo »

acangiano wrote: post #14

Interesting 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…

The (new-style) minutemen of the internet, these. Though this web site may have positive effects, all signs point towards RIAA / MPAA sellout.

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by rhizome »

acangiano wrote: post #14

Interesting 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…

keep in mind that your data on this site is aggregated public domain

WTF is "aggregated public domain" supposed to mean? It's certainly not any copyright feature I've ever heard of, and I've done some reading.

Besides that, nobody asked them to "guarantee" that the info wouldn't show up anywhere else, just f-ing delete it from their database. Oh, but maybe not being able to control screen scrapers means that they don't know how to "DELETE FROM `user_activity` WHERE user_id = $foo;"

See? No preventing of screen scrapers necessary.

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by Jach »

acangiano wrote: post #14

Interesting 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…

Just another layer to their trolling. I doubt they would get much money from MPAA/RIAA since I'd be surprised if those groups didn't have similar and more encompassing databases already. The point about making you acknowledge you downloaded the data is simply a framing of "Just because we have this IP that matches these files doesn't mean you actually downloaded them even if you currently share that IP; but we're only going to comply to take-down requests of your personal data, so if you think an arbitrary IP represents your own personal data, that's your mistake."

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by johndoeee »

jks wrote: post #21
dexen wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have a static IP, and I'm pretty sure that no-one at my home has downloaded the tv episode this service mentions. It's of course not entirely impossible that someone has hacked my wifi router, but I think that is less probable than it is for some random web service to show some made-up data.

Some trackers inject fake peers.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tricks-anti-pirates-...

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by SonicSoul »

jrockway wrote: post #6

I 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?

any ideas why, transmission on a mac is crawling with the same torrent that's lightning fast on vuze via windows? i've tried a few torrents using trasmission, and they would either crawl or not DL at all.. Vuze seems to be more and more intrusive (in fact some malware detectors continually report malicious activity coming from vuze), but somehow they figured out how to make torrents fly.. it's not uncommon for me to get 1mbps downloads..
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