I wonder how long before scam extortion emails link directly to this website in an attempt to add legitimate data to their extortion attempt
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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#52a) 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.
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#53These sites are never accurate I don't know why they make the frontpage every couple years
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#54I can see this being used by law enforcement in countries where IP address = person that rents it.
This is a long term practice in Germany. Lawyers connect to the swarm, collect peers and then send letters in an automated way to "shake down" people. The solution is to use VPNs or private trackers and it's pretty widely known. If you move into a flat / AirBnB one of the first things people will tell you is to not torrent on the connection.
Had one of those in the UK. Ignored it.
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#55This 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 escalate the process unless you reply - I've heard stories of people receiving dozens of these "we saw you downloading pirate stuff, stop doing that" emails.
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#56Luckily my router only supports IPV4 and I'm assigned a vague IPv4 CGNAT IP every time I switch it on. I used this site to do some OSINT on my IP and you guessed it: It looks like I'm sharing my IP with 1000s of other subscribers so doing attribution to 'me' would be hard and also wouldn't hold up in court. Also see:
https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2011/08/why-ip-addresses-al...
https://www.securityweek.com/eff-warns-police-courts-about-u...
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#57Laughs 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.
Alternately, a seedbox or seebox-like service like Put.io. My ISP actually prohibits P2P transfers, so whatever you're downloading, if you want to use torrents, it's the only way to go without getting nasty emails.
wouldn't a VPN also work? it should just look like a single encrypted stream to the ISP.
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#58Regretting that static IP now :)
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#59Laughs 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 sharing seems to have hit a wall after torrents got popular. Doesn’t it seem like Usenet shouldn’t be the best option considering it’s age?
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#60Smart thing to do is to use this as a content recommendation service! Or netflix can improve their catalog by knowing what content people are going off-service for.... Nevermind enforcement, this is a huge data source for marketing purposes... Wait a minute :(
When customers switch over to torrenting Netflix can keep their 'watched' list updated in case they come back.