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I can see this being used by law enforcement in countries where IP address = person that rents it.
by dt3ft 6y ago
I 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.
- dewey 6y agoEven with dynamic IPs (Not NAT in this case) it's not a problem as ISPs in most countries have to keep a record who used the IP at which point in time.
- nybble41 6y agoCGNAT means multiple people are using each IP address at every point in time. To disambiguate customers the ISP would need to log every connection, which is a huge amount of data to keep track of and only useful if you have not only the IP addresses and timestamps but also the peers' port numbers.
- dewey 6y agoThis 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.
- duxup 6y agoHeck in the US one law firm actually seeded the porn themselves ... then sued the people who they accused of downloaded it ;) Didn't work out for them long term though.... https://arstechnica.com/tag/prenda-law/ https://arstechnica.com/tag/prenda-law/
- lone-commenter 6y agoPure Saul Goodman style.
- m0xte 6y agoHad one of those in the UK. Ignored it.
- jliptzin 6y agoUh oh, I rent out a vacation house on Airbnb, I am terrified to look up what the guests have been downloading on my account...
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- TheRealPomax 6y agoWithout incontrovertible proof that these lists are not just "connections" but "engaged in true data exchange with us, in which we verified that the data they sent us was indeed part of the torrent in question", I'm having a harder time seeing that. Connecting to a torrent is in itself not illegal (if it were, legal torrents such as that used for software delivery would be impossible).