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I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
- higerz 3y agoHaving accidentally visited IKnowWhatYouDownload, I was surprised to discover that tons of porn, pirate games, movies and other garbage were allegedly downloaded from my IP every day. The hair stands on end. I have had a static IP always, I never don’t download torrents on this IP. But here is a WireMin messenger node running here that uses BT technology. Therefore, IKnowWhatYouDownload site generates false information, makes it possible to blackmail anyone with fake data, creates an atmosphere of fear around the BT technology. IKnowWhatYouDownload has been operating for 7 years. Who's funding this shit, who makes a profit from the scam site? I think that maintaining its work requires some of money.
- cassianoleal 3y agoI don't download torrents but because I'm on a CG-NAT connection, I now know what kind of pr0n one of my neighbours is into. I could probably have done without that. :-|
- dtx1 3y agoSame here. A lot of Porn. Why are so many people torrenting porn? If there's one kind of Media that's ubiquitous on the free web it's porn.
- lakpan 3y ago[dead]
- johnchristopher 3y agoIncrease ratio in semi-private trackers ? More often that not your download quota is linked to your ratio.
- vehemenz 3y agoA lot of people are collectors with way too much time—among other things—on their hands.
- causi 3y agoQuality. You're not getting hour-long 4K60 videos for free legitimately.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoQuality and rarity. There's better quality Asian stuff in torrents than on the web. 4chan.org/t/ has a lot of threads like this
- electroly 3y agoWater is ubiquitous in the Atlantic Ocean but it's salty and full of fish poop. I drink water from my kitchen faucet because it's filtered and treated freshwater that is pristine and tasty.
- tekla 3y agoBecause porn disappears
- jeffhuys 3y agoWell, that doesn’t seem to work at all, for me anyway. Was expecting a list of 1000+ but got 0. Oh well!
- walthamstow 3y agoI am a prolific torrenter of media but the one item it shows for my IP is a Debian ISO. Fantastic
- defrost 3y agoIt shows all the "free to air" (in country of origin) content I share, four or five torrents I don't and never have, and nothing else from any private tracker.
- slickrick216 3y agoAlways a classic.
- victor22 3y agoNot working, shows wrong stuff for me
- dtx1 3y agoThis works by scanning public trackers it cannot work for private trackers.
- aroo 3y agoYeah that's what I thought. Nothing I downloaded in the past week showed up on any of the VPN IPs I regularly use.
- lakpan 3y ago[dead]
- jasoncartwright 3y agoHum, that didn't work very well for me. It thinks my London, UK (RIPE assigned?) consumer fibre IP address is in the USA and belongs to Cogent. None of the large amounts of open source & open data torrents I seed are listed, but a bunch of dubious porn is.
- Brajeshwar 3y agoHere is the interesting thing - India never had the concept of static IPs for residential home Internet. You have to pay a premium to get one, request for one with reasoning and has to be "for commercial." So, all of our neighbors shares IPs or are within a range. It is fun knowing what all of my neighbors and the a few blocks away are all downloading.
- shmde 3y agoI got scared looking at all the pornography and movies that I never downloaded popping up thinking someone hacked into my network.
- rinze 3y agoThis made me remember one anecdote written in one of the books about how Amazon became what it is today (it could be "The everything store", but I'm not sure.) If my memory serves me well, the book mentions that, for a while, Amazon had "the most read books in your zip code", until someone realized some corporations were so large a zip code was basically just them. So that became "the most read books at Intel's research department", and the entire thing was scrapped.
- cameronh90 3y agoIn the UK, it’s not uncommon for a large building to have its own postcode. It’s quite useful because in most densely populated areas, you can use the postcode alone to navigate to within a hundred metres of your destination.
- fbn79 3y agoSame for Italy
- vasdae 3y agoI don't know of any country in the world, developed or not, that has static IPs for residental home users. It's a waste of IP addresses.
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- vachina 3y agoNot sure what it is using collect their data, because you can find unlikely IPs torrenting. https://archive.ph/KDxOr https://archive.ph/KDxOr
- S-E-P 3y agoI believe it
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago"How we collect data We have 11,210,350 torrents which where classified and which are using now for collecting peer sharing facts (up to 200.000.000 daily). We don't guarantee we can show ALL peer sharing facts: User could download torrent which we don't have" The other possibility is the user blocks the IP addresses that these folks are using. Thus the user never connects to them as a peer and never appears in the "peer sharing facts".
- vachina 3y agoWhich makes it even weirder. You’re telling me Google addresses are origins of PeX packets?
- tsroe 3y agoShows weird results for the static IP address of my VPS. So either I got pwned and somebody is using my server to download anime, or this doesn't work very well.
- a_bonobo 3y agoSame here: static IP, lots of recent torrent activity listed on this page that is definitely not from me.
- franga2000 3y agoSome trackers have started injecting random IP addresses in order to give users plausible deniability both from these sites and law enforcement.
- vbezhenar 3y agoFor me results are plausible. Some random videogames for my home dynamic IP, which could be downloaded by someone around me and no downloads for my VPS IP.
- r721 3y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249578 (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971020 (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821648 (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32404358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32404358 (2022)
- gjvc 3y agovery helpful
- coldblues 3y agoSometimes you will encounter CSAM content being listed there, especially if you are connected to a VPN or Tor exit node. Rest assured, they are all honeypots.
- tjpnz 3y agoThere was a website (don't recall the URL) which matched Wikipedia edits against known IPs of corporate and political organizations. Would be interested in seeing a similar application but for torrents.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoThe predecessor to this site allowed something similar, torrentfreak covered it https://torrentfreak.com/while-drafting-sopa-us-house-harbors-bittorrent-pirates-111226/ https://torrentfreak.com/while-drafting-sopa-us-house-harbor... edit this site also allows you to search based on IP.
- grotorea 3y agoI'm surprised it isn't port blocked or something.
- Dah00n 3y agoTorrenting doesn't require a specific port.
- crazygringo 3y agoPeople don't generally torrent at work... I don't think you'd get anything. Wikipedia was different, in that an organization had a vested interest in article content. But with torrents, organizations simply have a vested interest in not torrenting, since the content is frequently illegal. Pretty sure they just block it in the first place usually (not necessarily trivial, but still frequently done).
- skeaker 3y agoI think it's more to do with companies harvesting IPs so that they can report them to ISPs later. This is pretty common on things like big new movie releases.
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoNothing shows for me! Good! My vpn setup is working as intended to download Linux ISOs …
- fsflover 3y agoIf you want to torrent anonymously, consider torrenting in I2P: https://geti2p.net https://geti2p.net.
- minimaul 3y agoThis site is actually pretty useless imo - I have a static IP, I've had it for years, and I'm the only user of the IP. It shows me as recently torrenting a ton of content that I've never even heard of, and definitely haven't done. Either someone's poisoning the data at trackers (TPB used to do this?), or they're just making stuff up...
- subtra3t 3y agoIt suowed me something thet I was torrenting, a pretty niche video game. So I doubt that its making stuff up.
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- vasdae 3y agoThe site has always been very reliable for me, so I have bad news for you.
- mrweasel 3y agoSo.... my wife is downloading "Weapons of Ass Destruction" 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7... and House Of Ass 8?
- vasdae 3y agoOr maybe your wifi is not as private as you think it is.
- mrweasel 3y agoThat was my initial thinking, but there are no unknown devices connected to the router. What I suspect has happened is that I've been given a new IP some time within the last few days and the data on the site isn't exactly live. There might also be something in how the data is collected and how Bittorrent works, so some else had this IP a few days back and there are still Bittorrent clients that are trying to connect and that might be what the site is seeing. Bittorrent might also be much more popular than I expected, because almost every IP around mine seems to be torrenting something. But I think it's due to short leases on IPs because it seems unlikely to me that 8 out 10 is using Bittorrent.
- petee 3y ago> ... spy on them via special generated link Oh nice, sure thats real legal when you phrase it like that Edit: this is actually a pretty scummy feature. Create a link redirection to spy on them...
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoWorked well for me. I use the excellent stremio extensively and it shows. In fact, I pay for netflix, and I use stremio to watch netflix shows because netflix UI sucks so much. Tells you something about pirating and convenience, hey?
- ggm 3y agoFeels like this is a perception/reality thing. This gives a perception of insights into use, but its highly qualified by what can be seen and why. So it does show "these things exist" but it doesn't mean its complete, or statistically informing to relative amounts, or even that endpoints are always known because of things like CGNAT and TOR/vpn. So interesting, but less informative than some would think. Primary concern would be people in EU (and like) content regulation going "SEE SEE WE KNEW IT NEEDED POLICING" based on a flawed premise.
- wpietri 3y agoRude title, but very interesting! Seems like I would like some of my IP neighbors based on what they're downloading. I was interested to see that the top downloaded game is Warcraft. Are they distributing via torrent? Or is there some way to pirate it? The top piece of "software" is HorizonXI, which is apparently a fan remake/expansion of a game from 20 years ago? https://horizonxi.fandom.com/wiki/HorizonXI_Wiki https://horizonxi.fandom.com/wiki/HorizonXI_Wiki No idea that existed, but very cool seeing consumers becoming creators/maintainers like that.
- unaindz 3y agoNot a warcraft fan but my coworker is. There's pirate servers, a few extensions behind the official game and in his experience a bit laggier but they work.
- ranting-moth 3y agobtdig.com is different and more useful indexer.
- Anarch157a 3y agoI'm behind CGNAT, so it shows a whole lot of stuff downloaded by other people who shares the same exit point as me. This makes it pretty useless for anyone in the same situation.
- alimbada 3y agoI recently switched to a provider that uses CGNAT too. Nothing on the list shown was downloaded by me.
- belter 3y agoIt's showing the wrong information...and I will keep claiming this until my lawyer says otherwise... :-))
- 1letterunixname 3y agoFalse positives with unrelated items against a stable IP. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- firecall 3y agoAnyone have any idea why I'd see false positives? I have a static IP, so I know what torrents I've accessed. But there a couple I haven't - like Law and Order eps.
- S-E-P 3y agoI’m gonna have to remember this quick and easy iptracker
- tobbe2064 3y agoShiit, i am using this from my phone and it seems like the previous user of my ip downloaded a lot of child pornografi. I dont know whats worst, the child porn or that someone would use something so easily trackable to access it
- gardenhedge 3y agoDamn site is HN-ed. I was looking forward to seeing what it would show me
- gardenhedge 3y agoSite came back but it's disappointing. None of the info was accurate
- chatmasta 3y agoI like to use this site's aggregated stats to find new movies or TV shows to watch.
- electrondood 3y agoFun to log into VPN and refresh the page...
- beej71 3y agoMy IP looks like it downloads something about once every 15 seconds. :)
- juliangmp 3y agoTurned on my VPN to see what other users of the same service/server use it for and out of the dozens of movies, games and occasional linux distros, theres two entries straight up labelled "child porn"..........
- rokkitmensch 3y agoAstonishing that folks aren't running their torrent machines in other jurisdictions in this the year of our goddess 2023.
- ZunarJ5 3y agotil lots of weebs use the same vpn as me. you heathens.