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This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I
by soared 4y ago
This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.
- bragr 4y agoHow did that work? Did they monitor the swarms? Fingerprint the chunks?
- bawolff 4y agoMovie studio hires company to monitor bittorrent trackers/dht, send letter to isp, isp forwards the letter to you (legally required in some juridsictions, e.g. canada) In many cases this is a pgp signed xml document, which is bizarre as i have no idea what an average person would make of that.
- walrus01 4y agoThe XML is supposed to be used by the ISP receiving the dmca notice, with their internal automation systems, to determine what subscriber had a specific ip address in a DHCP pool at that point in time. Then generate an email outbound to the customer's email in the billing system db.
- npteljes 4y agoYou can query trackers and DHT for torrents, and they return a bunch of IPs that are seeding/downloading the torrent. And then, as an ISP, you can combine IPs to subscriptions. Check out this website that does the IP querying part for you: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
- Rerarom 4y agoWow! I never thought there were records of that.
- TechBro8615 4y agoThere’s a Defcon talk circa 2013 about crawling DHTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQrNoCwxgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQrNoCwxgE
- anacrolix 4y agoThere's also magnetico: http://magnetico.org/ http://magnetico.org/
- npteljes 4y agoI just get a rickroll gif on your link. Did you mean this project? "Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite." https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico
- Rerarom 4y agoI don't get a rickroll, I get a redirect to the address you posted.
- TechBro8615 4y agoI also got RR’d when I clicked the other day. It’s working now though. But it’s an http link so who knows. Anyway, that repo is archived now. But I did find a more modern iteration of the idea: https://github.com/dennis-tra/nebula-crawler https://github.com/dennis-tra/nebula-crawler
- neurostimulant 4y agoMy local ISP uses CGNAT so I guess that page lists what my neighbors are downloading. So many porns.
- thegabriele 4y agoWell i found many unexpected adult type contents too, how can i tell if my local ISP uses CGNAT?
- neurostimulant 4y agoThe easiest way is to just compare what your actual public ip address is (e.g. using `curl ifconfig.me`) and what actually configured as WAN ip address in your router/modem. If it doesn't match, you're likely behind a CGNAT.
- thegabriele 4y agoThanks, well it seems theyknowwhatidownload but imnot.
- superkuh 4y agoIt's not really an ISP if it uses CGNAT. It's more of a web service provider. And it's not like you (or your neighbors) can participate in p2p protocols anyway if you don't have a routable IP address and ports.
- neurostimulant 4y agoDownloading torrent is fine though. You can connect to peers just fine, it's just the other peers can't initiate connection to you which is bad for seeding.
- senectus1 4y agoI always got very amused when i got these letters... the stuff they claimed my IP had downloaded, was definitely not downloaded on my network. rotating IP addresses made the warnings pointless.
- cute_boi 4y agoCan't they use DHCP leases? Thankfully, ISP doesn't show that much effort.
- silisili 4y agoEven if they weren't too lazy to, an IP doesn't and can't identify a person or even household. Must be my neighbors downloading movies on my open wifi network, I can't figure out these high tech router thingymajigs ;).
- elcomet 4y agoIn France it's an offence to not configure securely your network if there's some illegal stuff happening on it. You are held responsible for any downloads on your own network.
- RHSeeger 4y agoIf that's the case, then it should be illegal for companies to sell devices that have issues that can be exploited in them.
- silisili 4y agoRight? Seems like half of consumer routers have or have had an open exploit. I believe the GP, but can't see it being enforced.
- mod 4y agoThat must be tough on the ISPs.
- depressedpanda 4y agoThe desktop app can be found here: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop
- spurgu 4y agoDoes this work on Mac M1? I tried a couple of days ago and IIRC it segfaulted.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoIf you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.
- hackernewds 4y agoWhat are good VPNs to use?
- jerojero 4y agoMullvand is the best I've found. It's a bit expensive though.
- Crespyl 4y agoI'll second the Mullvad recommendation. I don't even care that much about torrents or geo-locked stuff, I just trust them more than my ISP. Setup was incredibly smooth and straightforward. IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser.
- brewdad 4y agoAgreed. I was a happy Mullvad customer for a few years until Proton offered me a deal that was too good to pass up. I like to change up my VPN provider and/or account every couple of years anyway so I'll probably go back to Mullvad when my current term is up.
- Dylan16807 4y ago> IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser. Which is a nice thing but you can't forward ports, and forwarding ports is a big benefit Mullvad has especially for torrents.
- grishka 4y agolaughs in third-world country
- underlines 4y agolaughts in Switzerland, where you can torrent what ever the heck you want with your 25gbps/25gbps FTTH connection from Init7 for 60USD/month and providers don't do QOS or DPI and there's no limit in how many terrabytes you're torrenting.
- buchoo 4y agoWhy would they list the movies? Seems counterproductive since you could then broadcast which torrents are monitored.
- zagrebian 4y agoIs there a reason why this couldn’t be a web app that works everywhere, desktop and mobile?