I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:20 PM UTC

Post by throwaway666494 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

flak48 wrote: post #89

An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box. We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down via the IP) that we were engaging in piracy. We sent an email to everyone with access, saying whoever was doing it to stop. Then we got a second email (a final warning). Everyone denied…

Post by manishsharan » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

Post by HumblyTossed » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:25 PM UTC

iso8859-1 wrote: post #109

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Post by rglover » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:28 PM UTC