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Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by trocker »

rickmb wrote: post #39
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…

> 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.

countries can definitely be forced or rather be asked to cooperate to reduce piracy - http://croak.eu/uDKQwa

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by danneu »

notatoad wrote: post #33

Either my roommate has very different music tastes than I thought he did, or They've overestimated my ISPs lease time.

No kidding. I live in a one-bedroom in a college student apartment complex and none of these listed downloads are mine. But from visiting that website, I just learned that the Walking Dead is on it's second season.

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by barrkel »

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.

No, they definitely have bugs. I have a static IP, not shared with anyone, and it has a single bogus entry for me too.

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by wisty »

Jach wrote: post #27
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 onl…

It might be a joke. It might be a serious attempt to screw you, disguised as a joke. It's like some movie character who tells you not to do something, then pushes you to do it anyway, either to teach you a lesson or because they are actually out to get you. I think it's just a joke, though.

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by kristofferR »

It's a joke people. They claim that the scraper is real though:

"Don't take it seriously

The privacy policy, the contact us page — it’s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked — to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn’t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That’s the beauty of jokes — you can make them out of anything.

However, if you have a better idea — don’t hesitate to contact us."

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by lemming »

stfu wrote: post #15

I am surprised about the high quality taste other people have who share this VPN. Csikszentmihalyi, Ebook Libraries, Stephen Merchant - proud of my fellow anonymists.

proud of my fellow anonymists

Except, of course, that they didn't pay the authors for any of that high-quality content you like so much.

Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by [deleted] »

lemming wrote: post #58
stfu wrote: post #15

I am surprised about the high quality taste other people have who share this VPN. Csikszentmihalyi, Ebook Libraries, Stephen Merchant - proud of my fellow anonymists.

proud of my fellow anonymists Except, of course, that they didn't pay the authors for any of that high-quality content you like so much.

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Re: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

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Post by Chjopa »

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…

Terrifying stuff, even having aliases doesn't work against this form of tyranny...
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