It doesn’t know what I download on BitTorrent. I only download from a private tracker that is 15 years old, nice try :)
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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#102Tried it from my phone. I guess cool to see people torrent from their mobile connections? I'd have to ask for a loan in order to do that.
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#103Laughs in Usenet. The proliferation of streaming services and restricted content has me investing in alternative options more these days. It's not about paying for content, it's about content becoming less accessible again.
Usenet has its own issues though. The past couple years there’s been a massive jump in DMCA takedowns. On certain things you now have download as it becomes available, in a week it’ll be gone. For things that no one cares to pay for monitoring of, you can go back years. So, pros and cons to torrents that don’t get taken down specially but torrents “die” of old age when no one seeds them. It’s odd to me that file shar…
Usenet is still a good option for 5+ year old videos. I've noticed I'm getting 10+ years retention lately and some of the files that were missing started working again. However, there are services that you pay for that cache popular torrents and also provide premium file hosts leeches for the stuff that is missing on Usenet.
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#104Laughs in Usenet. The proliferation of streaming services and restricted content has me investing in alternative options more these days. It's not about paying for content, it's about content becoming less accessible again.
Usenet has its own issues though. The past couple years there’s been a massive jump in DMCA takedowns. On certain things you now have download as it becomes available, in a week it’ll be gone. For things that no one cares to pay for monitoring of, you can go back years. So, pros and cons to torrents that don’t get taken down specially but torrents “die” of old age when no one seeds them. It’s odd to me that file shar…
Two things for your last comment - in reverse order:
- Usenet is likely the "best" option because it's super niche due to it's age. Only a certain subset of people even know it exists, much less use it, and the effort to track down anything except the most popular stuff is just too expensive.
- I think file sharing in general started to die off because streaming services actually provided a good alternative for a while. Right now, they are basically online cable companies though, and I feel like a new re-surgance of file sharing is likely coming as a backlash. As the prices go up, the fragmentation explodes and items come and go as contracts, consolidation and new launches affect availability, people will be frustrated and look for alternatives, legal or not.
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#105I think it is malfunctioning. I’m sure I downloaded some Linux ISO files and all I see is a blank list. I have a static IP4 and IP6 connection
It's not malfunctioning, it's that monitoring all torrents in the world is not as easy as it looks.
Still, using a VPN remains the safe option. My IP is as clean as a CPU factory.
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#106It shows the linux distros I have torrented but not any piracy lol
Oh, I thought it filtered out legal content. Doubly confused why it doesn't know anything I have since I've left my very infrequently changing public IP seeding arch linux isos reasonably often.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The beautiful part is that they may have no idea which IP address corresponds to your email until you click a unique link in the phishing email (or load a tracking pixel?).
The scammer doesn't need to know the IP, they just send them to the root domain which automatically loads the ip of the viewer.
The website even has a utility to generate a URL that, when clicked, will log the victim's peer results while forwarding them to a harmless website:
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#108This kind of thing is already done heavily by content rights-holders. If you torrent movies or games in Canada without a VPN, you will get nastygrams in your email from the rights-holders via your ISP. They're legally required to do so AFAIK, because even consumer-oriented ISPs that are very privacy driven also forward on those letters. Apparently if you don't reply to those emails you're fine, because they can't esc…
What, you only get emails? In Germany you straight up get snail mails from lawyers demanding you to pay for the damages.
But in Germany the only real bad thing is uploading, downloading by itself is more of a grey thing.
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#109Laughs in Usenet. The proliferation of streaming services and restricted content has me investing in alternative options more these days. It's not about paying for content, it's about content becoming less accessible again.
Usenet has its own issues though. The past couple years there’s been a massive jump in DMCA takedowns. On certain things you now have download as it becomes available, in a week it’ll be gone. For things that no one cares to pay for monitoring of, you can go back years. So, pros and cons to torrents that don’t get taken down specially but torrents “die” of old age when no one seeds them. It’s odd to me that file shar…
Why would something stop being popular just because it is old (aka 'mature')? What a weird argument.
'Best' is subjective, often the network effect wins and people will keep using something that is 'good enough'.
Usenet archives go back 10 years. How are you going to start a Usenet competitor with 10 years worth of content?
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#110a) this is creepy b) I have wondered this... you know those letters some ISPs send to people telling them what they downloaded illegally? Do they send that stuff to VPN providers? Because it seems like they would just get flooded. I connected to my VPN service and there are thousands on that IP range.
The ISP is looking for IP addresses in its address range in the peer list, looking it up in its customer database, and sending its own customers a letter.