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"With help from BitTorrent monitoring company ScanEye" <- How does that work? Do they simply collect IPs from peers and seed of each file and dump them all into
by Mahn 14y ago
"With help from BitTorrent monitoring company ScanEye" <- How does that work? Do they simply collect IPs from peers and seed of each file and dump them all into their own database? And they have a business around it? That sounds rather creepy. But I guess it's good to know there are people doing this at least.
- jiggy2011 14y agoYes, basically that. Companies have been doing this for years. This is why many torrent clients have blocklists built in, though how helpful they actually are is dubious.