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That site has been Comcast's honeypot for like 10 years.
by misterbishop 3y ago
That site has been Comcast's honeypot for like 10 years.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoIf Comcast is your ISP in this context, it's not their honeypot. They're the ones receiving the requests that downloads cease from the copyright holders and Comcast acts on those requests as they see fit.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoRunning a torrent site as a honeypot seems like a stupid move for an ISP given how cheap it would be to run a bot that automatically downloads every release and tracks the IP addresses. And Comcast would only bother with that as they own NBC, so probably have been running such a bot for about 14 years now.
- crumpled 3y agoSomeone already mentioned the Comcast angle, and they are correct. The ISP isn't involved until they get the notification from an agent of the owner of the content. The honeypot isn't the torrent site. You can use any site in the world or no site at all and still get busted. It's a peer to peer network, and the people busting you are seeding the torrents themselves. They catch you when you peer with them. Use a VPN, and read more.
- crumpled 3y agoJust to be clear, the rights holders probably aren't publishing torrents, they just also download them and monitor anybody that happens to connect with their seed. In a way, they are helping us with better download speeds.
- 8organicbits 3y agoI'd be interested in the legal argument that by sharing their media in this way, the rights holders are authorizing the download.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoIf it's a problem at all, it seems like they could easily bypass it by only offering a couple chunks rather than the whole file.
- rightbyte 3y agoYou can offer 0 chunks and still see the seeders, right? How would you otherwise start leeching.
- partiallypro 3y agoI'm sure they are capping their upload speeds to basically nothing and just monitoring the IPs that connect to it.
- crumpled 3y agoLeachers, haha. I do the same, minus the logging.