Anyone have any idea how they collect the data (what IP is dowloading what torrent)?
I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…
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#32They 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.
There's no way for any torrent client to hide itself since all this site needs to do is to have a program join the swarm of all torrents it can find and log all the ip's of the peers in that swarm, it doesn't matter what torrent client you use.
However if it's a closed tracker and they do not have access they can't join the swarm and log the ip's. I'd assume that at this point they are only logging ip's on open trackers but there's no technical reason why they couldn't join a private tracker (unless they don't accept more users) and log ip's there aswell.
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#33Either my roommate has very different music tastes than I thought he did, or They've overestimated my ISPs lease time.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#35for me it says, "Well, you are in the clear. But look what others do"...AnalTeenAngels.com - Abbie (584.32 MB)
should i check it out? must be good!
[turns out to be a gay flick, FML]
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#36This 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.
It said something wrong for me too. Something about "Magneto", presumably a comic book or something. I know who lives on my street, and I doubt any of them are the hack-the-neighbor's-router types.
It also didn't mention things I have pirated off of public trackers, so, meh.
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#37Interesting 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 onl…
> 'd be surprised if those groups didn't have similar and more encompassing databases already.
Those groups don't have Facebook verified identities of people admitting of downloading specific files. Pretty hard to prove that "it wasn't me" at that point.
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#38Interesting 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 do…
I think they mean that they can't stop someone who may have already scraped that info before you requested the delete.
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#39Interesting 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…
> They could sell this information to MPAA and RIAA for gold.
Maybe in the US, but in many other countries they would be breaking several privacy laws. In fact, even the collecting the initial minimal information (IP's + downloads) already breaks privacy laws in most of Europe. Commercially, this information has no value.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 do…
I think they mean that they can't stop someone who may have already scraped that info before you requested the delete.
Were they ever asked to do so?