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why would they buy logs from your ISP when they can see your IP address when you're seeding? they just have someone watching the seeders lists and pick out germ
by kioleanu 2y ago
why would they buy logs from your ISP when they can see your IP address when you're seeding? they just have someone watching the seeders lists and pick out german IPs (or maybe it's even automatic!) and then they ask the ISP who owns the IP
Buying internet logs might also be highly illegal in the EU, but IANAL
- RamblingCTO 2y agoIt's the other way around: they track peers and then submit a request for the data from your ISP based on the IP
- newsclues 2y agoEntrapment
- codetrotter 2y agoNo that’s not entrapment. If it was the police uploading a new torrent and getting people to download it, it might be. If it’s a private firm that joins the swarm and observes who is seeding, it’s different. They don’t even need to seed anything. Nor download anything. But even if they did it might be ok. IANAL, TINLA.
- autoexec 2y agoI seem to remember there was a company uploading their own films to torrent sites just so that they could sue the people who downloaded them and that the courts weren't impressed with that scheme. I wouldn't be surprised if some companies were still doing that while being a little more careful about hiding that fact.
- dns_snek 2y agoNot really, it's more like undercover policing. They join the swarm, observe who's doing what, and then send letters to their ISP. You can either join private trackers where they're not allowed to hang out, use a VPN to make you "untraceable" (as far as these petty tyrants are concerned), or both.
- sandworm101 2y ago>> why would they buy logs from your ISP when they can see your IP address when you're seeding? Because an IP address is not a mailing address. And they don't buy your internet activity logs. They buy the ISP's log of which IP was associated with which account.