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The countries of origin of the peers downloading that torrent is pretty cool to see. A fairly broad cross-section of the world.
by ColanR 6y ago
The countries of origin of the peers downloading that torrent is pretty cool to see. A fairly broad cross-section of the world.
- searchableguy 6y agoNot reliable. Most people torrenting this are hopefully using a vpn.
- gspr 6y agoWhy?
- crdrost 6y agoBecause until this thing gets diffused and dissected by everyone and their mothers, the law is likely to view it as publication of confidential trade secrets, and people who can be confirmed to be spreading such things can get federal time, e.g. [1] for example. Using a VPN is the barest of mechanisms to try to obscure your identity to avoid this sort of punishment. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204409004577158713934267648 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204409004577158...
- fastball 6y agoRight but if you just download without seeding, no crime is being committed, yes? So seems like the barest you can do is "disable seeding", not "use a VPN".
- crdrost 6y agoIANAL and you should probably contact yours about such things but a straightforward reading suggests that because you knew you were downloading something likely illegally gotten, you are in fact on the hook for downloading it. “Misappropriation” means: (i) acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or (ii) disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who (A) used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or (B) at the time of disclosure or use knew or had reason to know that his knowledge of the trade secret was (I) derived from or through a person who has utilized improper means to acquire it; (II) acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or (III) derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or (C) before a material change of his position, knew or had reason to know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been acquired by accident or mistake.
- theon144 6y agoDepends heavily on the jurisdiction, I am afraid. This exact case was used as a precedent where I'm from (Czech Republic) that no, merely downloading over BitTorrent still constitutes "sharing copyrighted material".
- jhgb 6y agoPresumably that was because BitTorrent sends data even before receiving 100% of it? But I assume that downloading these files would not be allowed in this case anyway as per Zákon č. 121/2000 Sb. §29 (2) since this is not a published work.
- nvr219 6y agoAhem. Not seeding is a crime.
- dgellow 6y agoThe only place I know where that would be the case is Switzerland, there downloading copyrighted material isn't illegal (and companies aren't allowed to track IPs of people downloading files via torrent), but sharing is. But in the context of a data leak of confidential trade secrets, that's likely to be a completely different situation.
- Aaronstotle 6y agoI think there's a big difference between selling chemical secrets to a hostile government and this torrent. Namely, that no one is selling this information, it's available to anyone who can grab a magnet file.
- dgellow 6y agoHere is the real thing: are you confident enough in your statement to argue that way when confronted by your government (or whatever is the concerned body here)? If yes, then feel free to do whatever you want with your free time and bandwidth, but otherwise you're better to stay as far as possible from these data.
- getoffmyawn 6y agowell in any case thanks for FUDge-packing this discussion and sharing your opinion which is based on nothing. i'll make sure to credit you as my partner-in-crime after I get my door kicked in for downloading files on the internet.
- mafriese 6y agoI notice that you have no one in your circle of acquaintances who has illegally downloaded movies about torrents and got caught. I don't know how it is in other countries, but here in Germany friendly people ring your doorbell and take everything that is connected to electricity :). And if there is any data in there that is very damaging to Intel, then I think they will take the trouble to look for these people (at least in certain countries)
- getoffmyawn 6y agoi'm sorry you live in a hellhole country and your friends don't understand how bittorrent works. maybe one day you can immigrate to a second-world country and grow some cojones, but until then you should continue living in fear and scaring your peers from downloading leaks early when there aren't fed trackers.
- augusto-moura 6y agoTorrent is not the most private way of downloading things, because if you share your already downloaded binary you are posting your ip in a tracker as a leecher or seeder. You actually can see live what torrents (at least the most popular) are you downloading[1], the site is only tracking the most popular hashes, but is easy to some entity track this intel hash specifically [1] https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/
- jamesponddotco 6y agoOr a SeedBox.
- totetsu 6y agoso.. I shouldn't have clicked that link on my office network?
- biddlesby 6y agoAll good, just make sure to restart your computer at the next available opportunity
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoHow would that help?
- akimball 6y agoOften a boot cycle gives the rootkit a chance to hook boot code to bootstrap into hypervisor.