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I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
- rekabis 6y agoEh, this site is bullshit. It just lists random content in a scareware fashion. I’ve already tried it from a few different IPs, and not only did it list none of what I actually torrent, but it also listed shit I’ve never even heard of before. Mostly porn. And identical content across different IP’s (home static and cell LTE). As in, I don’t torrent through my phone, and even on that (wifi turned off) I got a list of torrents with a completely different listed IP.
- mito88 6y agoDoes this really work? Not seeing any torrents of mine.
- duxup 6y agoI had nothing for my actual home IP, but if you want to see something fire up your VPN and see what they have listed for that IP ;)
- UncleEntity 6y agoHad to try it, surprisingly zero porn?!? Actually...for a free wireguard server there wasn't a whole lot of bittorrent traffic at all.
- duxup 6y agoThe VPN endpoint I picked was only ~10% porn. I too was surprised. A lot of TV shows.
- onychomys 6y agoMy current VPN endpoint has a dude who downloaded an unfortunate number of things about Adolph Hitler. :(
- dt3ft 6y agoI can see this being used by law enforcement in countries where IP address = person that rents it.
- easterncalculus 6y agoThere are still plenty of places where this can apply, though. Any organization that owns an AS is susceptible to this especially. Consider universities, which might own one, where each IP corresponds to a student. Universities also just happen to be a hotbed of torrent traffic.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago> in countries where IP address = person that rents it. Does that actually exist today? At least IPv4 addresses I would expect to increasingly mean nothing, as address exhaustion drives more people behind CGNAT.
- xxpor 6y agoThe US has very little CGNAT outside of mobile networks and small rural ISPs
- patmorgan23 6y agoDoesn't time Warner /comcast use CGNAT
- hrhrhrd 6y agoMy comcast connection has a static IP not behind NAT.
- xxpor 6y agoNot positive about TW, but IME Comcast does not. I know people complain (fairly!) about comcast a lot, but some things they've consistently gotten right are stable IPs even if you don't pay for an explicit static address, and pushing v6 VERY hard.
- fsflover 6y agoThis is why I am only using torrents in I2P.
- grawprog 6y agoApparently Blindspot, Warrior, Hanna and the Twilight zone is pretty popular for my ip address. I've never downloaded any of these and Twilight zone is the only one i've even heard of. I also can't torrent things through my service provider, they throttle them, so i've never actually used a torrent program at all from this IP. So, that I guess...
- easterncalculus 6y agoHas your IP address changed recently? I definitely didn't want to post this under the implication that it is always 100% accurate.
- grawprog 6y agoMaybe, it's a mobile IP so I'm pretty sure it changes regularly. I know I can force it to change by turning airplane mode on and off. I've avoided IP bans this way.
- lone-commenter 6y agoA better description would be “I know what people that happened to share your current IP address downloaded on BitTorrent”. Given that providers either implement dynamic addressing (unless the user pays for a static address) or NAT, it’s not accurate at all.
- timdorr 6y agoOne of my neighboring IPs distributes child pornography according to this site, which is just fan-fucking-tastic. Anyone know how far Comcast distributes IPs on the same subnet geographically?
- ogurechny 6y agoWell, well, well. But how did YOU know it was child porn? File names don't count, as there have always been malware, and junk, and even law enforcement traps on peer-to-peer networks. You seem to have some experience to distinguish the real deal. Why don't you have a seat? It's a joke, but nothing protects you from being officially asked that. The state of moral panic in which everyone is supposed to agree that “protecting the children” is a wild card which only complete deplorables dare to question resulted in what has been predicted decades ago. All around the world, governments and corporations have lobbied censorship infrastructure for themselves in the name of the children. It's written right there in the laws, as if straight from Four Horsemen of Infocalypse Wikipedia article. In addition to that, Internet is subject to semi-legal de facto “agreements” based on ever-reaching US laws. It's because of these agreements between dealers on the shady side of the net (and their connections elsewhere) you don't see child porn advertised just as often as regular porn. A lot of people wouldn't hesitate to make lots of money on the hottest topic. That's something they have in common with other professionals. Murder (of a person of any age) results in a couple of regular news flashes, some mentions on roller captions, and that's it. However, add sex (or sex with children!), and you'll have a media goldmine. And, of course, there will be some politicians proclaiming it's the right time to ban encryption. But they can do it only because everyone react the way they react.
- LordOfWolves 6y agoI use a VPN on my home network and do not see any records via this website. Am I missing something, or is my impression that this tool can “see through” tunneled traffic false?
- easterncalculus 6y agoYou're not missing anything, this service shouldn't be able to see it if it's through a VPN. If you're connected to your VPN when you check, then it might be able to see what is going through that server, which of course might not be you (if you're using a commercial/shared VPN server).
- Jsharm 6y agoI have not downloaded any of these, how are these associated with my IP address?
- Voloskaya 6y agoYou don't have a fixed IP.
- electricviolet 6y agoIf your internet provider dynamically assigns IP addresses, they may have been downloaded by people who previously had your current IP address.
- Santosh83 6y agoWell my ISP gives out a dynamic IP address each time my DSL modem connects to them, so this tactic only reveals who downloaded what when they were assigned my current IP. Nothing much can be inferred from this data unless you are the ISP or govt and can tie the IP to the subscriber. And yes, it shows my IP downloaded the movie Zombieland, which I never did, so it is some other subscriber of the same ISP.
- Tepix 6y agoNowadays internet users on cable often keep the same IP address for weeks if not months. Who knows, your ISP could change its configuration tomorrow and always re-assign the same IP address to you as long as its available. I think the point of this website is to show people that using torrents is far from anonymous and invisible.
- easterncalculus 6y agoExactly, I posted the title as it's the link of the site and admittedly salacious enough to click, but I don't (and I'm sure the site owners don't) want to allege that there's any internet mysticism going on.
- andrewstuart2 6y agoThat, and you should know that there is almost certainly history of who had which IP address when; it's not going to be the same DHCP server running on your small router. If you download something, get a new IP, and the ISP gets a complaint for your old IP, they have that data and may be obligated legally to do something about it.
- larntz 6y agoIn the long long ago I worked at a small regional ISP. We offered dial-up and dsl. Users were assigned whatever IP was available when they connected, and this was logged (including disconnect time). So, it was very easy to search the logs and see who was using an IP at a given time in the past (assuming we still had the logs).
- dreen 6y agoI have no VPN and download stuff sporadically, stream video via torrents daily, I get nothing on this site. I guess I'm good.
- mito88 6y agoMe too
- splatcollision 6y agoSmart 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 :(
- glxxyz 6y agoWhen customers switch over to torrenting Netflix can keep their 'watched' list updated in case they come back.
- loufe 6y agoIt was worth the VPN investment I guess.
- cerberusss 6y agoI also have a VPN but guess what, my torrents are nicely showing. I've recently been using BiglyBT, a clone of the old Azureus torrent client. But apparently if something is wrong with the SOCKS proxy, BiglyBT defaults simply skipping the proxy :(
- tstrimple 6y agoLaughs 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.
- atourgates 6y agoAlternately, 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.
- rozab 6y agoWhat about, say, Windows updates?
- leetcrew 6y agowouldn't a VPN also work? it should just look like a single encrypted stream to the ISP.
- atourgates 6y agoYes - but in my case I'm happy to comply. My ISP is a locally-owned small-business that operates a WISP. They're genuinely nice people, pick up on the 1st ring when there's an issue and provide great support. If they say that P2P transfers on their network cause congestion and degradation, I believe them, and I'm happy to find alternatives.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoUsenet 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?
- jayrwren 6y agohaha, no you don't.
- thiscatis 6y agoI'm on a personal 4G sim wifi router currently and the results are completely wrong.
- jiggunjer 6y agoIt's unlikely that you have a personal public IP from a telecom provider. Everyone connecting to the same tower(s) will share that IP.
- jiggunjer 6y agoFunny to see how many movies are torrented on a mobile 4g network. What a waste of bandwidth.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoSince I go through a VPN, I'm more accurately seeing what other people who use my same VPN are torrenting. Surprisingly not as much porn as I would have guessed? A pity that the output columns seem to be fixed, or else I could probably do some fun analysis.
- Lammy 6y agoImpressive! Perfect match for the few things I download from public swarms :)
- mey 6y agoHow does BitTorrent handle Carrier level NATs with IPv4?
- the8472 6y agoDepends on one of two factors: 1. Does the CGNAT use EIM for TCP or UDP? 2. Does it, your CPE and your torrent client implement PCP or forward UPnP mappings as PCP?
- vmception 6y agoI switched my phone off of wifi to cellular and got some entertaining results
- notRobot 6y agoSubmission from six months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102806
- easterncalculus 6y agoYeah, I wonder who flagged this or why. It didn't come up in the search (most recent post was 3 years ago from what I saw) so I figured it would be worth a repost.
- veganbeef 6y agoWhy are all the porn entries highlighted red? Is it meant to shame people?
- tekstar 6y agoThat's the colour of visited links.
- Lammy 6y ago<tr class="danger">?
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThat is a Twitter Bootstrap class for "make it red". The above poster is wrong though. It's quite obvious that porn=red and it's easy to test. Anything with "XXX" in the category column is red.
- iagovar 6y agoa:blonde-amateur-stepfather
- easterncalculus 6y agoThere are different shades of red, too. Some of the porn entries are illegal, and rightfully are listed as such.
- mulmen 6y agoOff 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 this will leak your IP. I tried it in Slack too and it leaked whatever IP Slack used to fetch the URL which interestingly is not my IP.
- giantrobot 6y agoThe web preview in iMessage is performed by each client. So your friend should see their IP in the preview since it's their client making the connection on their end. This is easy to test if you've got another device with iMessage. Take your phone off WiFi and send yourself the link. The device on WiFi should show your home ISP address while the device on cellular should show the cellular provider IP.
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- mulmen 6y agoThat does not appear to be how iMessage works. I just tried this and my IP did appear on the receiving end. Since I edited the URL in the actual message it is possible the preview was cached from the original redirect. Either way it is infuriating that iMessage does not show you what it is actually going to send.
- kalium-xyz 6y agoInteresting, I didnt realize I could get people their IP by simply sending them my website without them even ever having to visit it themselves
- mulmen 6y agoBased on my limited testing you can’t. And that makes sense because I could make your device visit a URL just by sending you a message.
- ltbarcly3 6y agoNeat, now I know what everyone using my vpn provider has downloaded! I will happily recommend that everyone buy a router that can be flashed and pipe all your traffic through a VPN. It doesn't give you perfect security, but it defeats a lot of attempts to deanonimize like this.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoFor reference that is not a fool proof model. Even if you do everything right all your traffic goes through VPN... This create a case where the “bad thing” you do woth the PC, is also on the same address as all your “good things”. Let’s say with Google, your thermostat, your Wi-Fi enabled coffee maker, your game console, your phone, every website you connect to with any other device that runs through that router/VPN - they all know your VPN IP at that time and your account info at that time. Let’s say your WiFi refrigerator mfg sells IP and account detail information as a service to a data mining company - as I’m certain some do - in order to “get around” your home VPN, someone might need relatively cheap access to this data. Putting everything on a VPN gives a lot of devices and accounts to tattle on you. A VPN for the PC alone might be a decent idea if you are downloading things on the PC.
- larntz 6y agoProbably better to run a container or VM behind a VPN to do "VPN" things there, and normal stuff on the host.
- ki28iukgvdru 6y agoOn Linux (not sure if other OSes have this) a more lightweight solution would be to put the VPN in a network namespace; e.g. https://github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn https://github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn Also handy if you want to do work stuff on a company VPN without letting the employer see all network access.
- stordoff 6y agoOne thing I've dabbled with[1] is using pfSense to set up a VM with a management 'interface' that only routes to my local network and drops any packets not on the web UI port[2], and an Internet 'interface' that pfSense routes over a VPN (I can't remember if I ended up actually using two separate interfaces, or a set of firewall rules to allow the LAN traffic access). AFAICT, it seemed to work reasonably for the brief period I used it - the VM could only see the pfSense gateway, and all of the Internet traffic from the VM went over the VPN, whilst the traffic from the rest of my network was unaffected, but I could access a few services locally on a 10.x.x.x IP (different subnet to my main network). [1] Actually to setup a Pi-Hole instance that bypassed my ISP's DNS hijacking, but the principle seems similar [2] And DNS in this case
- noxer 6y agoIt lists a bunch of crap especially porn and Bollywood movies and some chines stuff I cant identify what it is but certainly no one in my household torrented it. Meanwhile it does not list a single distro iso that I have been seeding for months. The IP and torrent client is correct tho. Strange.
- Pxtl 6y agoDynamic IP? I doubt you're the first one to use that IP address.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoSame here. I torrented a doz distros but only one logged. Nothing I'm seeding shows up. My dynamic IP can go a year w/o changing. I have to re-spoof my MAC when I want a new one.
- tekstar 6y agoI wonder how long before scam extortion emails link directly to this website in an attempt to add legitimate data to their extortion attempt
- zingermc 6y agoThe 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?).
- tekstar 6y agoThe scammer doesn't need to know the IP, they just send them to the root domain which automatically loads the ip of the viewer.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThe 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: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/ https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/
- partiallypro 6y agoa) 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.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThe 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.
- larntz 6y agoIs this true? As I explained in another post, I used to work at a small ISP many years ago. We did not monitor anything, but we did get emails from MPAA people (my memory is a little fuzzy) about an IP downloading a something. We would then pass it on to our customer.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoIt was at least true for Comcast in 2007-2011. They were using a third-party agency for this info and then moved it in-house when I was doing contract work for them. No clue how MPAA letters interfaced with them. Could have been an agreement with them for all I know.
- Canada 6y agoThese sites are never accurate I don't know why they make the frontpage every couple years
- easterncalculus 6y agoThese sites are sometimes accurate, especially for those with static IP addresses or that are on a defined range (universities, organizations, etc). It's far from a silver bullet, but it's an interesting way to look at what people are torrenting in general.
- ip_addr 6y agoHow does this site work? Do they just join popular torrent swarms and log the ips?
- Pxtl 6y agoThis 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.
- carstenhag 6y agoWhat, 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.
- sbarre 6y agoCanada currently uses a "notice and notice regime" [0], meaning the rights holder notifies the ISP, who turns around and forwards the notice to the infringing customer, but does not give the rights holder the account information, nor do they take any punitive action towards the customer. However, the ISP must retain historical data on these notices, so if in the future the laws change, rights holders could in theory request information on past notices and go after subscribers once they have their personal information. so yeah, don't pirate stuff... 0: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/Oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/Oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html
- contravariant 6y ago>if in the future the laws change Almost no legal system works this way. You can't suddenly be found guilty of violating a law that didn't exist.
- sbarre 6y agoJust curious, are you a lawyer here in Canada?
- jermier 6y agoLuckily 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-alone-dont-identify-criminals https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2011/08/why-ip-addresses-al... https://www.securityweek.com/eff-warns-police-courts-about-unreliability-ip-addresses https://www.securityweek.com/eff-warns-police-courts-about-u...
- samcrawford 6y agoIt's harder, perhaps, but not impossible, and would certainly still hold up in court. When tracking a user behind CGNAT you need to capture not just their source IP, but also their source port. If you have timestamp, source IP and source port, that's enough for the ISP to resolve it back to the subscriber.
- pathseeker 6y agoBe careful with this, your ISP can easily record the NAT translations and going to your ISP with a connection 5-tuple would be enough to track it back to you.
- m0xte 6y agoRegretting that static IP now :)
- ravenstine 6y agoIt says I "like porn", but the porn torrents it shows are not thing I've ever downloaded. I don't download porn at all. It shows things I've torrented, but the list is very inaccurate. I sure hope law enforcement doesn't one day decide to use the same information source and frame me for viewing something I didn't.
- easterncalculus 6y agoI can't speak to every LEO but the gist in US law at least is that IP != person, unless some other outside proof corroborates it is. You could in theory be framed but it probably wouldn't hold up court. It definitely could throw you into court, though, and that can be damaging enough.
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- 101008 6y agoIt matched my downloads 100%. Wow.
- ghostwriter9151 6y agodoesn't work for me ..
- ghostwriter9151 6y agonot working
- adolfojp 6y agoJoke's on you. I'm behind CGNAT. Joke's on me. I'm behind CGNAT.
- janandonly 6y agoI 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
- toyg 6y agoIt'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.
- pretzel_boss 6y agoIt shows the linux distros I have torrented but not any piracy lol
- Macha 6y agoOh, 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.
- flak48 6y agoAn 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 doing it, so I had to find the offender via checking the bash history of the box for all users. Sure enough a couple of mkv files had been downloaded and deleted by an intern :( Making the mistake of downloading it was forgiveable once, since we lived in a culture where piracy was rampant / normal (this was before Netflix et al were available in my country). But repeating the offense, failing to come clean and making us waste our time to locate who did it was not. (This was a small 7 person startup so trust was super important). As for why the intern needed to ssh into a digital ocean box to run a torrent? The college internet (where he was working from) blocked torrent connections and he wanted to be the first one to download and release the episodes on the college intranet. Smh.
- Macha 6y agoMy previous employer had a strongly worded email and CEO statement sent out after they were sent a notice of over 100 company IPs (out of 15000 employees) torrenting the game of thrones finale to basically tell people "Hey, don't do that, we do business with many of those companies".
- megablast 6y agoAnd our company (80,000+) showed us the finale live from the US. Paid for of course.
- xorcist 6y agoHow do you even pay for that? 80k potential viewers? Aren't streaming licenses normally region exclusive?
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- Macha 6y agoApparently not.
- scott_paul 6y agoThis mostly shows me what other customers of my VPN in various countries like to download.
- 8K832d7tNmiQ 6y agoToo bad my place is assigned behind layers of NAT, ( or basically CGNAT ) which is basically useless to trace.
- gonzo41 6y agoAnyone had to trawl through a daily access log list looking to establish proof something happened? I have, it sucked and the effort in wasn't worth what we got out of it in the end. I'm pretty confident my ISP is doing the least amount of work possible to fulfill its logging and archive requirements. Keeping track of this stuff is like cleaning up industrial waste. It's not core the money stream for ISP's so it's going to be daily logs, zipped up on glacier storage, or better just hdd's that get thrown in a container and cycled out each year. People gotta do something these days, there's talk covid may go for 24 months!
- wincy 6y agoIt has things I didn’t download.
- quickthrowman 6y agoIt doesn’t know what I download on BitTorrent. I only download from a private tracker that is 15 years old, nice try :)
- ColanR 6y agocries in demonoid
- quickthrowman 6y agoThe destruction of what.cd was similarly terrible.
- proverbialbunny 6y agoYah me too. I remember switching from XDCC to bittorrent when it first came out. There was a very short period where XDCC bots would have .torrent files on them. Back then bit torrent was exclusively fansubs (anime) and the bit torrent client didn't have an upload limit, so it was painfully slow on the average connection. Because at the time bit torrent didn't have any retention, and you could use a service like xdcc spy or xdcc finder to find old content similar to pirate bay today, I was somewhat of a skeptic of bit torrent then for this reason.
- Keyframe 6y agoTried 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.
- sn_master 6y agoI've been using a Seedbox since December 2014. Best 15$/month I pay. You can even pay with Bitcoin, tho I just use PayPal. 2 TB of storage, very fast speed with caching (i.e. some torrents finish immediately if someone else has it downloaded). An uncached Blu-ray ~4 GB movie gets finished in 15-30 mins. They also have auto-delete feature. If they get a legal complaint they just delete the offending torrent and keep my account the same, no "strikes" or anything like that. 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! I only use the FTP if there is a large number of files (e.g. series or non-ISO-packaged software). They have servers in US, Netherlands and Singapore. I always use the Netherlands server. I doubt anyone uses the US ones. Even better? I can use the 2 TB for whatever I want, not just for the torrents. That's cheaper than most cloud storage plans for just dummy storage without any torrenting features! Only problem I have with torrents are unpopular movies/series usually have no seeds, but there is nothing that can be done about that. Only older clients like LimeWire/eMule didn't have that problem, but those had endless malware issues because the content wasn't verified. Pro-tip: Do not download the actual .torrent file. Many websites are setup to redirect you into an endless loop of shady .exe downloads. Always, always just copy the magnet link to your clipboard. This also makes you safe from any network monitoring that checks for .torrent downloads. No one can prove anything if you just copy a magnet link to your clipboard then paste it to a seedbox since they don't/can't monitor clipboards. Just browsing the page which has the link is perfectly file and doesn't prove intent, vs actually downloading a .torrent file. VPNs in comparison are quite dodgy. They have slower speeds, no torrent-caching, its possible (and happens more than it should) that the software has a bad config and skips the VPN and uses your actual connection. Also, I can never trust that the VPN company won't share my details if they get a legal request, specially when most of them are in the US. VPNs are useful for bypassing censored networks in a university campus or corporate network, but for torrenting they're infinitely inferior to seedboxes.
- demadog 6y agoWhich seed box?
- powersnail 6y agoSomeone who use the same VPN as me really loves classical music.
- flatiron 6y agoi picked a random PIA Montreal Node (which supports Port forwarding) for some interesting results: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=199.229.249.191 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=199.229.249.191
- Stierlitz 6y ago“MommyBlowsBest.18.10.31.Marie.Mccray.Story.Time.XXX.SD.MP4-KLEENEX” Haaaarrrr
- skipants 6y agoThat "Track Downloads" feature seems highly unethical.
- jchw 6y agoMy IP comes up clean, which is unsurprising because I don't use Bittorrent (at least not for piracy, anyway.) Even if you are going to torrent unscrupulously though, you may as well use a VPN or, if you can justify it, a seedbox. Paying to pirate stuff alone is probably a bit illogical, but OTOH having a VPN for general usage is probably wise for any questionable P2P things. (I am not affiliated or anything but I always feel obliged to throw a recommendation for Mullvad in that regard. Even if you don't care about VPNs, they do some pretty interesting stuff, like working on Coreboot for a server platform.)
- areactnativedev 6y agoNo you don't, there might be one I dowloaded in there but most of them were definitely not downloaded by me (and no one in my house). I guess that's a good side of getting a very dynamic IP from my ISP... And yes I know, that doesn't mean I'm protected from getting into trouble if I did something wrong since my ISP could probably link an IP and timestamp to me if asked by a lawyer.
- simion314 6y agoThe data is garbage, i am sure my IP did not changed and it shows things that I am sure nobody downloaded. I am wondering if the data is just randomly generated or the algorithm is just broken/guessing. You could create some stress for some people if such websites get credibility.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoWho has access to your WiFi though, how do you know it's secure, do you check; perhaps an authorised person has some secrets from you.
- simion314 6y agoI have a good password and I am sure my son is not able to run bittorent on his console or phone. My parents only have phones and they are not technical enough to install bitorrent also won't download a PC video game. I also do not see the shit I torrented, probably because it was not the latest movie or video game.
- kodt 6y agoGuess they don't know about private trackers.
- jlengrand 6y agoInterestingly, I used to download a lot of torrents years ago. When Spotify came along, it dropped at least 80%. Add Netflix and Steam and I haven't used torrents in a very long while actually. Simply because everything I need is available at an affordable price. However, seeing how many streaming services are popping up lately, each with their own specialty and each wanting my money, (and seeing how crappy free Youtube is becoming) I feel more and more like coming back to my old habits . . .
- Orochikaku 6y agoAs Gabe Newell once said, "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem”
- jlengrand 6y agoThat is a very fitting quote indeed.
- ConsiderCrying 6y agoThat is 100% correct. Soon as Netflix and Steam became a thing, I pretty much stopped pirating. They are so convenient that pirating is actually a subpar experience. If you download a game, maybe there's a miner or malware in it. Download a movie and maybe it doesn't have subtitles or has visual artifacts aplenty. The only cases where I do that is if it's a media property that I particularly love. I download a copy and store it on an SSD to make sure I never lose it in case Steam loses the rights to the game or Netflix decides the movie isn't popular enough and takes it off streaming, etc. However, now that everyone and their grandma is going into streaming, it's turning into cable. So I'm really starting to eye the idea of pirating series and movies simply because I don't want to pay extra money to Disney just to watch Hamilton.
- tracker1 6y agoIt's easier to grab all the shows I watch from one spot a couple times a week and watch from my nas via kodi on a shieldtv box. Bonus, not commercials and I don't have to care about which network(s) are on what services. I do pay for Hulu + TV for the fiance, and though I do use it sometimes, I'll tend to prefer torrents.
- shiado 6y agoUh Oh looks like one of Trump's interns is using cracked software and pirating movies https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.14 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.14
- Stierlitz 6y ago“Executive Office Of The President" Haaaarrr!
- lasagnaphil 6y agoThere's also one porn entry: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.18 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.18
- crazygringo 6y agoIt says they scrape torrent sites and then listen to DHT. But even assuming they scrape "all" torrents, what percentage of users use DHT as opposed to just trackers, and how often will a DHT request hit their server as opposed to someone else's? And are they really able to simultaneously function as part of the DHT for all torrents they've ever scraped, or is it only some small percentage at a time? I'm just wondering if they're managing to grab something like 90% of torrenting activity, or more like 1%? Legality aside, I'm just really curious about the technical accuracy here. Also why they chose DHT instead of connecting to trackers directly.
- TheRealPomax 6y agoGiven that DHT means websites hosting magnet links are in the greyest possible of legal areas, as opposed to websites that run their own tracker, which makes them pretty much guilty of aiding and abetting by default: DHT is by far the more used technology these days.
- bserge 6y agoOuch... my town is on the same IP range, so I can see my neighbours' activity. I could probably even tell who it is. On the up side, static IP makes it easy to quite reliably host stuff on my own computers, in my home.
- mb720 6y agoFunny it categorizes Big Buck Bunny as XXX.
- AnonC 6y agoPreviously (December 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971020 Previously (December 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249578
- jwilk 6y agoAnd January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102806
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- d33 6y agoThis part is outright creepy: > We cooperate with Right Holders, Law Offices, Internet Service Providers, Advertising Agencies and National Police. We provide information about sharing/downloading content via Bittorrent Network all over the world. It's one thing to collect this as some sort of research, but another to feed MAFIAA [1] with this data to make their job easier. The fact that they process the data without disclosing who they actually are doesn't make it any less fishy. Doesn't it violate GDPR or something? 1: http://mafiaa.org/ http://mafiaa.org/
- martindbp 6y agoIs that acronym deliberate? "Are we the baddies"?
- notatoad 6y agoVery deliberate. The MPAA and RIAA don't actually call themselves the MAFIAA. that's not an official website.
- TheRealPomax 6y agoI'm struggling to understand what's creepy about this. If seeing your entire download history on that website was shocking, that's really more a measure of how much you know you've been breaking the law than anything else: there is no PII anywhere in what this service does, it just retains information about which IP (which on its own doesn't identify anyone in the slightest) was seen connected to which torrent payload (which on its own doesn't imply actual data exchange happening).
- d33 6y agoThey flat out encourage you to spy on other people's downloaded torrents. How's that not creepy? The argument that they only display what they collected and everyone could do that doesn't change the fact that it's them that do that and they're really indiscreet with this data.
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- albertshin 6y agoOf course, "The Man in the High Castle" would be the most pirated series in North Korea [1]! [1]: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/KP/annual/2020 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/KP/annual/2020
- sli 6y agoThis is honestly fascinating if you're a VPN user.
- Exuma 6y agoI like connecting through a VPN and then refreshing the page
- paulie_a 6y agoObviously stupid to use work resources to do it. But from home there simply are no real repurcussions. You get a letter and it goes in the trash with no followup.
- nottorp 6y agoMy oh my... I seem to have downloaded a lot of torrents on my phone. And I have such eclectic tastes. Shared IPs are still very much a thing you know...
- koheripbal 6y agoConversely, mine doesn't show anything even though I have a static IP and download frequently... odd.
- dijksterhuis 6y agoYeah I found that odd as well.
- koheripbal 6y agoMaybe it's because I only accept encrypted connections? Has my paranoia finally paid off?
- nottorp 6y agoI think they only track popular movies and some open source downloads (apparently my phone has downloaded the gimp port for windows). For my fixed IP it has nothing. I've given up on torrenting long ago, but not the way the movie industry would like. If it's not on Netflix they can just keep it.
- dijksterhuis 6y agoSomeone else commented about a White House staffer downloading cracked copies of image editing software - so it's definitely not FOSS only!
- rootsudo 6y agoSince everyone is taking about their experiences seeing workmates torrent, and no one is posting how this works - Torrents are peer to peer. Bit torrent is a type of application. Bittorrent are not inclusive to torrents anymore. Since everything is public, you can load several torrents, and watch for the handshake to occur and record the time/date and ip address. Do it on a large enough scale and there you go. There are many ways to secure against this, usually USA IP holders use USA cloud services or USA IP addresses. Some are public, but even if not, you can block the entire USA , so geoblocking by a simple tool such as: https://www.countryipblocks.net/acl.php https://www.countryipblocks.net/acl.php And you're pretty much in the clear. Not perfect, but pretty much.
- postit 6y agoThere’s a business in Germany entirely dedicated to this and to send letters to people’s residence.
- virtue3 6y agoI'm surprised it worked even on 'private' torrents I had. I had some misguided thoughts that they were a bit more secure as you needed a specific torrent downloaded that tied you to the torrent. I see now that it's just an authentication thing on top of the public interface.
- angry_octet 6y agoYou are very much not in the clear if you block like this. That's just delusional. Copyright monitoring firms have many endpoints that look like consumer ADSL/cable... because they are consumer connections.
- rootsudo 6y agoYes, but consumer ADSL/cable..are still..within the USA IP Address list block. By blocking the entire continent, if you are paranoid, you won't be on that list. I doubt they will engineer much of a solution for non-local markets e.g. UK instance catching USA Ip address, though in the end it is not that hard to move that metadata around.
- rohan1024 6y agoJokes 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.
- salusinarduis 6y agoSo 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.
- rohan1024 6y agoBehind double NAT without a router. With router it's triple. Its nuts.
- reedwolf 6y ago...last summer.
- Reason077 6y agoAnother interesting one is to hit the "My Contributions" button on Wikipedia when you're not logged in. This will show you anonymous edits that have come from your IP address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyContributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyContributions There are a lot of weird people who share my IP address editing a lot of weird stuff!
- easterncalculus 6y agoVery interesting! Thanks for sharing this, I also got some interesting responses from a VPN.
- cooper12 6y agoAlso supports subnet notation, so you could add /24 to the end of the URL for example.
- PopeRigby 6y agoInteresting. If I use ProtonVPN, one of the Australian IPs is blocked globally.
- davedx 6y agoJust checked on our company vpn. Sure enough, someone has been downloading gigabytes. The legal issues are one thing, but screwing up the speed and stability of our shared internet is even worse!
- dependenttypes 6y agoPlease do not visit this site unless if you want to be tracked. In addition it is extremely inaccurate, it used to say that 8.8.8.8 was torrenting anime.
- RandomWorker 6y agointeresting, I have not downloaded anything from my IP address. Also, my partner has doesn't even know the existence of the Bittorrent. Yet, we have a list of all kinds' of interesting files that we have apparently downloaded. Either someone is using our IP address to download things by hijacking our wifi, or something else is going on. As far as I know we don't share our IP, something to investigate here.
- fidelramos 6y agoNo you don't. :)
- Scoundreller 6y agoI always find it funny to see what shows up when I switch to mobile and see what gets tracked via CG-NAT. As a Canadian, I guess others have much much much better plans that I do. We pay $5-$10/go here. Maybe telecom employees get unlimited plans?
- mr-ron 6y agoList is blank for me, but definitely shouldnt be, so no it definitely does not know what I download on BitTirrent.
- rusk 6y agoInteresting... shows me a list of things I didn’t download!
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- yupyup54133 6y agoThis is why all torrenting should be done with a throw-away device (ie. cheap second-hand android device) on a public internet access point (ie: the library or a coffee shop).
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- AvailableMe 6y agoOpened this junk from my home ip. Site says I (or somebody from my address) downloaded several soapy shit. It's pretty stupid to say that "you downloaded" those movies. First of all, torrenting is hell expensive in most of Europe. In Germany any ISP will immediately pass every bit of information they have about you to companies like ip-eschelon (and others who talking lawyer-ish) after first letter with mention of piracy. Next letter will land in your mailbox and resulting summ will surprise you. If you have lawyer insurance of personal lawyer, total pay me be decreased but not avoided. So, I will ask author of this site to avoid this kind of provoking stressful and insulting and puzzling wording.
- mdoms 6y agoWhat does it mean that I can see there are 256 comments on this article from the comment count, but only one (from flak48) is visible to me?
- easterncalculus 6y agoI also had this problem, on my end it appears to be resolved now.
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- dfraser992 6y agoOff topic: I was trying to see the comments for this link - there are 258 of them apparently - but all I can see, in multiple browsers, is 1 comment from "flak48". No other HN topics are behaving like this.
- EastSmith 6y agoI am paying for whatever I can I pay where I live - hbo, amazon prime, netflix, local services, spotify. I think about stop paying and switch to torrents simply because of the horrible UI each of these providers has. It will probably will be more of an effort, but enough is enough. What I want: VCL interface - start / stop / pause. What I do not want: the rest of the crap like extra info (Amazon), bad search interface (hello all), buffering issues (hello HBO, Netflix), dark patterns where you can not stop at the end of the episode, but they may let you to continue watching credits (FY everyone).
- ficklepickle 6y agoAre you using custom DNS? If so, you may be bypassing the netfix appliance at your ISP, leading to worse performance. It is also possible, of course, that your ISP doesn't have one.
- metalliqaz 6y agos/you/yourIpAddress/ IP addresses are not people
- Madzen__ 6y agoI currently have 44 active torrents, this site doesn't show any of them, none of my friends torrents either. Cool concept tho.
- coddle-hark 6y agoMight be worth keeping in mind that carrier grade NAT and dynamically allocated addresses are both pretty common.
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- Kubuxu 6y agoI can only see one comment for some reason?
- loeg 6y agoThis appears to be scraping the distributed public peer mechanism (PEX), distributed torrent metadata distribution system (DHT) and public tracker announces (which, by necessity, contain peer IPs for locating other members of a swarm).
- manishsharan 6y agoHow is this usable in any legal system ? There is a huge difference between downloading content and clicking on a link.
- kinghajj 6y agoMeta-question: There are supposedly 274 comments on this article as I write this, yet I can see only 1. Is this an error? Has the discussion been locked?
- curiousgal 6y agoI also ran into he same issue! First HN bug I've come across in years.
- joan_kode 6y agoI also experienced this, the footer was missing as well. I tried from different devices and there was only one comment. I'm not sure how long it lasted but at least a few minutes, seems back to normal now.
- dariosalvi78 6y agoWhy does this appear with 272 comments but I can only see one?
- rglover 6y agoVPN is working :)
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- aftergibson 6y agoJust checked while on mullvad, that's a lot of porn....
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoI've got a fair number of torrents I've been seeding for who knows how long. And this site says I don't have anything. I don't use a VPN, but I use an invite-only tracker.
- lucb1e 6y agoThe site is indeed very inaccurate, and I'm not using private trackers. Seeing as there is a previous HN thread about it 6 months ago, it should have some historic data in which I occur... it just doesn't capture everything.
- VivaCascadia 6y agoAn org name search would be great. I'm sure there are plenty of gems like this one. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.14 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.14
- Groxx 6y agoSomewhat surprisingly, it finds nothing for mine (likely some rando IP from my ISP... though that only makes it more surprising). I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this. Am I not torrenting enough? Do blocklists work? Did my ISP recently acquire an Amish IP block?
- stiray 6y agoI do give you credit of giving people a quick shot how accurate torrent detection can be if you are a casual user not using VPN. Or not using private trackers. But. You dont know and you are clueless that this is not my ip. Furthermore, I have also checked my phone where I have never downloaded any torrent and you are showing 3 movies. This is just scaremongering. I did a few more tests. For multiple private trackers you didnt detect anything (except your false positives), you have failed to detect there is more than one user of IP, you didnt detect VPN (but you could). Not accurate at all. A sane advice from this example - use VPN (from other jurisdiction than you are in and not massively well known or free), stop using public tracker.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoThis website shows a good 40 downloads from my IP, and I don't recognize a single one. I have torrented some files recently, but they're not in the list. And so far I've never used a VPN, it's unnecessary where I live. Not very reliable.
- netsharc 6y agoYour ISP is certainly using CGNAT, or maybe IPv6, so multiple subscribers look to be using 1 IPv4.
- Bnshsysjab 6y agoIf your mobile uses a dynamic IP the pool will be shared by others. In my country at least, Logs of client details to DHCP assigned IPs is Legally required. Private torrents do not show up because I know what you download relies on DHT broadcasts.
- tomxor 6y ago> Furthermore, I have also checked my phone where I have never downloaded any torrent and you are showing 3 movies. This is just scaremongering. Not sure if this is the same in every country but mobile phones in UK jump around the same IP block pretty frequently (i.e all day long) even when standing still - i'm using this as home internet so i notice. IP addresses are re-used all the time, this is why it's not usually permissible as evidence in court. The down side of such frequent IP changes is i'm pretty much permablocked by google and captcha'd to death by them due to frequently swapping IPs with in pool of users with malware (now i've completely given up using google.com).
- j45 6y agoGreat idea, Ads have to go from the top. It made using the tool with interest turn into a negative experience. If ads must exist, they should be at the bottom where users, after being delighted can decide to click on it.
- lucb1e 6y agoHow does it know whether certain IPs are static? It labels XS4ALL's residential range correctly as static but surely the owners of this site didn't investigate a random Dutch ISP to find out whether they rotate IP addresses. Is there s registry for this sort of thing? It's not in the whois info that I can see.
- techstrategist 6y agoI’m also curious whether this is legal in the Netherlands. Certainly strange that it’s encouraging me to check on my neighbors to see what they’ve downloaded.
- lucb1e 6y agoI'm not sure about the legality. Pretty sure that GDPR says you have to inform people before you process (store, transmit, etc.) their personal data (like IP+timestamp), but in practice it's often afterwards or not at all. The speed camera doesn't have to tell you what data will be collected and what your rights are before giving you a ticket and the trajectcontrole doesn't tell you anything at all (if you didn't drive too fast) despite processing your license plate. I'm not sure why that is legal, so then perhaps collecting this without a legal basis (consent, fulfillment of a contract, vital interest of the data subject, etc.) is also legal, but that doesn't exempt the site from the right to view your data or the right to object to having your data processed if there is no grounds for it. Of course, there are no repercussions if the domain is registered and hosted in a country that doesn't tell the EU who's behind it or doesn't do extradition and there are no European assets to cease. Worst they can do then is block the site from Europe like they did with The Pirate Bay and similar sites.
- skocznymroczny 6y agoI'm on dynamic IP, so it doesn't show me anything relevant. Only an update for World of Tanks downloaded a week ago... I haven't played World of Tanks in three years.
- pampa 6y agoYou can turn it into a recomendation system! "People who downloaded this, also downloaded this"
- jeroenhd 6y agoThis website used to contain all the information to generate a magnet URL for every torrent. With a simple combination of Google and a quick browser addon I've used this site as a nice way to find torrents for a while. They've taken down the hashes now, which means the trick doesn't work anymore. Using other people's interests as recommendations was pretty useful though!
- ballenf 6y agoHere'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.
- LeoPanthera 6y agoYou 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.
- p1necone 6y agoIt correctly identifies my torrent client version and the fact that I have a static IP, but none of the things I know I have downloaded are on the list, and a bunch of stuff I haven't is (EDIT: it correctly identified one torrent). Edit: Could this be due to me having a static ipv6 range, would my ipv4 address that this is looking at be shared by other people?
- gcbw3 6y agoYou client is politely sending items your peers are requesting, to try to find peers for them in your peer network, without having to flood everyone with irrelevant peer lists. And this site (which i guess is just a couple lines of python collecting the data) is not bothering to distinguish any of the finer details.
- p1necone 6y agoAh, this makes sense because the first seen and last seen columns are the same for all the stuff I didn't download, but for the one thing I noticed that I do actually recognize there's a gap between first and last seen. Of course I imagine if two peers were looking for the same thing a few hours a part this wouldn't work to identify stuff either. EDIT: Is there any way to stop it from doing this? I don't want law enforcement to mistakenly use this as evidence that I actually downloaded anything.
- m0zg 6y agoLooks like my neighbors are huge fans of some nasty pr0n.
- codezero 6y agoThe phishing link they have set up to get your friends IP is pretty shady, obviously this stuff is easy to do, but pretty weak to make it easier for folks. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/ https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/ There are people with abusive and stupid partners who wouldn't be able to get this information without doing more work or paying money.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoNot minimizing your point but I like the obvious reminder of what's possible. Also, the what-bad-guys-might-do klaxon is a powerful tool, is too often used to restrict everyone's abilities.
- codezero 6y agoYep - I don't mean to admonish the creator of this - it's great to surface this information so people are more informed of how they are monitored online. We all make mistakes, and the world has a lot of good people in it as well as bad ones :) I also think that without actual regulation/oversight, sometimes the best way to deal with it is absurd overreach, it sometimes is the only thing that wakes people up.
- gcbw3 6y agoWith encryption, if anyone join as a peer NOT to join the torrent distribution, is that considered computer hacking under the DMCA?
- peterbmarks 6y agoHow does this work? I thought the whole idea of the torrent protocol was to prevent identification of who downloads what.
- gcbw3 6y agoyou should forget whatever you read and start over :) The purpose of it is exactly to help you find other peers with the same content. It's a bunch of peer finding protocols on top of each other. Trackers, DHT, peer xchange, etc, etc I mean, the data itself is all hashes, but very public hashes. Unless you hashed it yourself and shared only the hash ever, the reverse hash is a websearch away.
- cactus2093 6y agoNot sure where you got that idea, maybe you're mixing up torrents with Tor or with gray area VPN services that people use while torrenting to anonymize themselves. The whole reason you can google "____ Torrent" and get results is because there are torrent trackers out there that, well, track which IP addresses have which files. The same thing that allows those to exist allows someone to watch and record who is downloading which torrents. Which is what movie studios and the like are doing as well when they send out copyright warnings based on torrenting.
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- dkarp 6y agoThe point of the protocol is to distribute data efficiently. It has nothing to do with privacy. Maybe you’re thinking of Tor?
- MarcellusDrum 6y agoOn the contrary. It is extremely easy to know the IP addresses of all downloading. This is a major problem in PeerTube as well, as you can know what videos someone watch. I'm not up-to-date with this, but last I checked, this was still unsolved.
- thug_life 6y agolol....no you don't
- nickfromseattle 6y ago- Was 26 - Moved into company apartment - Torrented stuff - Company received a $30k lawsuit for downloading porn on company network - Hear CEO talking to lawyers (open office) - 99% sure it was me - Come clean to CEO - Was actually another c-suite who forgot they were logged into the VPN
- oxguy3 6y agoWhat happened next? Did they punish you?
- quickthrower2 6y agoExplain the lawsuit?
- jandrese 6y agoA few years ago there was a legal firm that specialized in tracking down people from their IP on porn torrents on the assumption that they wouldn't want their name in the public record and would settle for 5 figures. The law firm doing it was so shady they ended up losing the suits and having a judge tell them to knock it off.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoNote that the conduct of Prenda which the judge objected to was that they were both the legal representation and the copyright owners, but didn't admit that before the court. There was no suggestion that their tactics posed any problems.
- chmod775 6y agoThere's also the problem that if the copyright owner themselves made the torrent available, it's not actually illegal to download it...
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- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y agoIt is interesting. I was expecting to see blue data leak, but nothing showed up.
- fiatjaf 6y agoHow does it work? Do you connect to every open tracker in the planet and store all the IPs they give you?
- temptemptemp111 6y agoGreat promotion for VPN services.
- Idered 6y agoThanks for recommendations
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoblackarch-linux-live-2020.06.01-x86_64.iso 14.37GB I'm totally outed. Those other IPs in my subnet do like their porn. Well, someone's porn.
- hijef 6y ago> nothing nice :sunglasses:
- gandalfian 6y agoInteresting, for the dynamicish ip my ISP gives me nothing at all. Turn on my cheapo vpn provider and rather a lot.... Virtually all video both clean and dirty, tiny amount of music, no apps at all.
- mcs_ 6y agoIs Torrent still a thing? I'm not sarcastic here, just not downloading music since Napster. Is it common for you to install a torrent client on your machine?
- swayvil 6y agoPiracy benefits us all. It brings art and knowledge to millions that wouldn't otherwise have access to it. The rest of society benefits indirectly too, by having these enriched persons in their midst.
- alexhaber 6y agoAFAIK this site only uses DHT (Distributed Hash Table) sniffing to track IPs. Disable DHT in the torrent client settings.
- Bnshsysjab 6y agoGreat, you just reminded me of my favourite trash TV series which is stuck at 80% :(
- qes 6y ago> I Know What You Download on BitTorrent No, they don't. They don't know anything I've torrented. I've been using the same _private_ tracker for about a decade. 10 TB downloaded.
- quicklime 6y agoNot only does this highlight the non-anonymity of BitTorrent, it also highlights what's wrong with link shorteners! Jsut click the "Track Downloads" tab or go to https://ikwyd.com/r/QgHP https://ikwyd.com/r/QgHP to generate a short URL that lets you get the downloads for someone's IP address.
- chemmail 6y agoThis thing seems pretty inaccurate. It says i tried to download fast five and Fast.And.Fierce.Death.Race. for under a second on july 1. fast and fierce is 720p and weighs in at only 800MB making it terrible quality so i know it wasn't me lol.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoYou probably have a dynamic IP address so someone else downloaded it on the address you are using now. I have a static IP and its showing all kinds of linux ISOs and other random crap that either I or someone else on the network downloaded.
- microcolonel 6y agoI wonder how this API could work in terms of travel prep. If you wanted to watch the most torrented films in a given city before coming, seems like it could work out well.
- cosmodisk 6y agoSomeone commented that it almost feel impossible because of how stupid some of these situations are. I did tell my entire department,staffed with primarily young people, who just started their professional lives,that private mode in browser will not stop the company ( or me personally) from finding out what they are browsing. The horror on se of those faces!:) Then I did repeat it again to make sure everyone got it. And then, someone asked " and what about our mobiles connected to WiFi?". Yes,those too. Every single website.
- zoost 6y agoCompletely innacurate information.
- zoost 6y agoCompletely innacurate information and doesn't even know what is being torrented right now.
- Benjamin_Dobell 6y agoIs this supposed to be a hoax? Just tried my home Internet, static IP, secure WiFi, in COVID lockdown, so no visitors. Myself and my wife only (besides a toddler and baby). Wife doesn't normally use a computer (just mobile) and has no clue how to torrent. Site claims we torrented some MP3 three days ago; I had to Google the name of the artist. If it's not a hoax then my best bet is some seriously impressive JS malware on a site my wife visited. Does seem extraordinarily unlikely though.
- gtirloni 6y agoIt's based on IP addresses. If your ISP recycles yours, it could very well be another customer that got your current IP days ago.
- Benjamin_Dobell 6y agoI said static IP in my comment above, although that's not quite accurate. They're "sticky" IP addresses so don't normally change. No CGNAT either, but there was downtime a couple of days ago. I suppose my IP could have changed, as I've made no attempt to remember it. I think I'll actually follow up with my ISP. Cause if there is some rogue software/hardware on my network I'd love to know about it!
- mirimir 6y agoNot really. It shows what people using my current VPN exit have downloaded. And seriously, TPB warns people to use VPN services.
- dom96 6y agoSo VPNs nowadays are meant to protect from this, but how can someone trust a VPN not to sell the details of what you've been downloading? Is it really worthwhile to use one when the VPN provider may actually in some cases be more likely to sell this data?
- pizzazzaro 6y agoI mean... How much do you trust your VPN provider? Looking at this site? Its fun to see what my fellow VPN users at the same IP are doing. No attribution, just all of us.
- Sebb767 6y agoI mean, it pretty much comes down to how much you trust your VPN. Depending on your jurisdiction, trusting someone that is legally forced to keep logs vs some who's income and reputation depends on not doing so might the best bet (through VPNs definitely have survived giving out shady data). Also, if your VPN is located somewhere exotic and just somewhat uncooperative, the bureaucratic overhead of getting the logs, getting the IP, sending the request to your VPN and then matching the result with your ISP might be long enough for the logs to expire.
- jiveturkey 6y ago> how can someone trust a VPN not to sell the details you can't. but, you could use 2 nested vpn services, which would help if you can know that the 2 aren't affiliated with each other ... which you can't know. i mean, it's hilarious that VPN services suggest privacy as one of their selling features. lol.
- hnick 6y agoAccording to the results, they know what a housemate of mine downloaded... I don't think I'll bring it up in conversation.
- amanzi 6y agoInteresting - I have a fixed IP at home and this shows me having downloaded a Debian ISO recently, which is correct.
- CGamesPlay 6y agoWow, people at my apartment must download a LOT. Including several items listed as child pornography, about which the site declines to provide additional details; as well as this listed as regular pornography, but which I believe is actually malware-ridden audio editing software. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/?id=a8579ced887218b21b6d2cf276c057346e66a0c03e350c0abcea8f0d31480c219ed9e47e957ea76a3f96347587275da0 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/?id=a8579ced8872...
- balls187 6y agoWe were hosting an Au Pair from sweden. One day comcast sent us an email saying our IP address had been used to illegally download content. I confronted her about it, and she lied denying it was her. Needless to say, we never received another complaint.
- mindfulhack 6y agoGiven the numerous examples of false positives / false attribution able to be extrapolated from this website's claims, I wonder if it is giving its owner(s) / operator(s) considerable legal risk. By calling itself "I know what you download, dot com", it's potentially suggesting that "you are your IP address", thus suggesting that it is usable evidence for others to use against "you", when it actually could not be the case at all. IANAL, but this site seems legally problematic.
- philipov 6y agoI suspect they're based in Russia, and are not worried about legal action from US-based entities.
- freetime2 6y agoI tried connecting to NordVPN and loading up this page. Hundreds of results show up, and surprisingly less than half of it is pornography.
- kanox 6y agoI have a static IP and it shows a whole bunch of unfamiliar torrents. What am I missing, how could it show false positives for a specific IP?
- pfranz 6y agoIt seems correct for me. A bunch of Linux ISOs. It is missing some I've been seeding from http://academictorrents.com/ http://academictorrents.com/ Others mentioned having an ISP level NAT. Could that be it?
- everfree 6y agoGood thinking to cya by posting a comment here that you can point to later. It's quite believable, actually.
- nitwit005 6y agoIf you read the paragraph at the top, it lists other "similar" IPs. It's not strictly accurate.
- thyrsus 6y agoI torrented CentOS 8 in December; I must have been given another DHCP address since then, since the site shows an empty list for me.
- vxNsr 6y agoThe good news is that it doesn't see any of my private tracker linux downloads and since I only download linux on private trackers the list is empty.
- cjohansson 6y agoThis list must be violating integrity-policies and be illegal. This is similar to publishing DNS look-ups related to IP.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoSince we're doing Tales Of Stupidity, I knew a guy who was reasonably highly placed in the UK side of a non-trivial multinational. At home he set up a kodi(?) box to play stuff he torrented. At least he did it at home. If he'd been caught he'd have lost his job and possibly got a black mark on his record that would have prevented him getting another managerial job. I don't think he considered the consequences, he just wanted stuff so he torrented. He could have paid for it, but he didn't. In another place I worked for I had a guy from a very rich shipping family ask me about torrenting stuff illegally (soz M8, not helping ya there). This guy could have afforded to buy the media remotely, say in the US (we were in the uk), and have each disk individually couriered to him cushioned between the warm thighs of high-class call girls. He had the money but he preferred to... be stupid I suppose.
- cikibirki69 6y agoThe info on my IP is not correct lmao
- techiefreak21 6y agojust check it out mine then :P
- pfdietz 6y agoMakes me glad I have never been tempted to use BitTorrent.
- HeavyStorm 6y agoIP being dynamic, I don't really know how this affect end users. The list for my (current) IP shows a bunch of stuff I never downloaded.
- miraj18 6y agoThis is cooler than the other
- kaetemi 6y agoNot really with carrier grade NAT that has a dynamic IP.
- kabacha 6y agoHilariously I hadn't even heard any of the things listed and I even went through the whole subnet! I think if anything this website is a good illustration of how IP =/= person and should never be assumed it is.
- iwasakabukiman 6y agoI just checked from my (government) building’s connection and, well...someone has been downloading some Lovecraftian horror movies. Not what I expected.