I Know What You Download on BitTorrent • Hacker News Board

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by 411111111111111 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

sn_master wrote: post #168

pier25 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I then download the actual content either from FTP or HTTPS. If its a movie, I just download the single .mp4 file from the portal itself (and skip the subtitle/cover files) with HTTPS straight from Chrome, or even stream it directly through VLC! Since you mentioned you're using Whatbox in another comment, why not simply use Plex to catalog and stream the files?

Because I haven't heard about it before this comment? I am taking a look now, it looks interesting. I usually like to download the whole files anyway and keep them on my external big drive to make sure I have them when a movie stops being popular and becomes harder to find on torrents. Also, I have an external projector that can play movies from a USB and having the full file available for me to copy onto the USB in…

Check out emby instead. It's open source and you won't get locked out of your own media if your internet connection is down

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by shuntress » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

SkyBelow wrote: post #335

sho wrote: post #261

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The only moral problem I have in your anecdote is the lying about it. With every fibre of my being, I could not care less about torrenting game of thrones .

At some point I find it hard to draw a distinction between a library and a torrent. Gotta to avoid legal trouble, but from a moral standpoint outlawing torrents is like outlawing the library.

Digital and physical copies of media content differ significantly in their transmissibility and copy-ability.

For example, creating a digital copy of some content is typically so easy that creating an entirely new duplicate copy is actually how works are transfered. Compared to physical media where creating a copy can be so difficult that copies are shared by physically moving individual copies rather than re-duplicating them.

While many libraries do have significant and valuable collections of digital works, they also tend to have somewhat overrought (or overly trusting) systems for preventing illicit copying.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by 1980phipsi » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:37 PM UTC

sn_master wrote: post #211

1980phipsi wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for posting about this. I hear about seed boxes, but never thought it was affordable to rent one. One question: after downloading the files, how easy is it to get them back on a home computer?

1) Open Whatbox from Chrome, or any other browser on your home PC/Phone/Tablet. Its all HTTPS, your ISP can't know what you're doing. It is just like any regular website, not an "app" or anything at all special about it. 2) Find the torrent in the list of files. 3) Right-click on the file you like (e.g. the big .mp4 file) -> Download. Chrome will download it like any other file and save it anywhere you like. 4) Profi…

Thanks!

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by fortran77 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

inetsee wrote: post #345

Wistar wrote: post #253

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I worked at a place where, one morning, the guy in the next office over got swarmed by company security and the police. He was trafficking in child porn on the company network. He was a super smart, super dumb guy who lost everything over it, his wife, custody of his kids, friends and a very high-paying career. His car sat in the company garage for weeks.

I worked on a secure project a very long time ago. A very smart guy (he was working on the operating system for a military avionics computer) printed out some child porn photos on a company color printer. (This was long enough ago that good quality color printers were very expensive, not like now when you can buy a color printer for less than $100.) He got walked out. I don't know what other consequences he suffered.…

See "The Rise and Fall of Patrick Naughton" https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-patrick-n...

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by quickthrowman » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:42 PM UTC

ColanR wrote: post #234

quickthrowman wrote: post #101

It doesn’t know what I download on BitTorrent. I only download from a private tracker that is 15 years old, nice try :)

cries in demonoid

The destruction of what.cd was similarly terrible.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by flak48 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:50 PM UTC

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #296

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…

So did you sack him?

Yep, since he didn't seem to care if our Digital Ocean account would get suspended.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by ballenf » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

Here's your free startup idea: content owners create targeted advertising based on real-time torrent downloads. The ad is a one-time use stream link in the local user's currency for a reasonable fee. Not realistic for implicitly condoning the download, but it would make me a huge fan of the company.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by rohan1024 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:57 PM UTC

salusinarduis wrote: post #243

rohan1024 wrote: post #236

Jokes on you, my ISP has double NAT and I'm pretty sure 1000s are sharing my IP. Good luck finding what I download. Sadly it's also the same thing that I absolutely hate about my ISP.

So NAT is happening before the connection comes into your house? Typically double NAT happens because your ISP does not allow that to be disabled on their modem and you have your own router hooked up through lan.

Behind double NAT without a router. With router it's triple. Its nuts.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:58 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #330

mulmen wrote: post #42

Off topic but this raises a question about iMesssage parsing of URLs. I copied just the base URL (without my IP, so he would get his) and sent this to a friend. The preview in iMessage lists my IP, because iMessage actually visited the link. Does the message he receives show his IP or mine? e: Just tested this, it shows my IP on the receiving end. It appears iMessage creates the preview text on the sender’s side so t…

This feature is a “very good thing” so you can’t force someone to disclose their whereabouts to you by sending them a link to the server you control. If you don’t want to send people your own info in the thumbnail, don’t send them thumbs of URLs that display your own info to you in image or title text when generating the preview on your device.

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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by LeoPanthera » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:01 PM UTC

ballenf wrote: post #377

Here's your free startup idea: content owners create targeted advertising based on real-time torrent downloads. The ad is a one-time use stream link in the local user's currency for a reasonable fee. Not realistic for implicitly condoning the download, but it would make me a huge fan of the company.

You want to actually kill piracy? You need two things, and probably either one of them would work on its own, too:

1. A streaming service with a reasonable monthly fee that has all movies and TV, not sharded between multiple different services.

2. The ability to buy and download movies and TV shows, DRM free, for a reasonable one-off fee. I know that the entertainment industry is allergic to no DRM, but I promise you, if they did this, piracy would go down, not up.