Torrenting - have you been caught with your hand in the cookie jar?

[sam3]

YouHaveDownloaded is a new Russian-based service that claims to track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. However, they go a step further than just collecting IP-addresses and file-names by exposing all the harvested information to the public on their website.

People who visit the site immediately see their download history, as far as it’s available in the site’s database. In addition, they can also search for files or IP-addresses to find out who’s downloading what. At the time of writing the database has information on 55,072,000 users who together shared 123,000 torrents.

http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/

(this database does not take into account dynamic ips)
source https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what...orrent-111210/

[One_Hertz]

Highly amusing site, but the info is incredibly unreliable.

[BoredByLife]

Never thought torrent would live this long.

[Kingcarcas]

I've tried to get one of those ISP letters and it never seems to happen for me

[XSAlliN]

lol dude - did you just copy my last link from another topic and post it as news? ^^

[paulbagz]

Rofl, they said I downloaded some ty ass Xmas pack of movies. Erm no lol.

-PB

[Clint]

Well, torrents is used for other downloads than illegal ones as well. I really don't agree with this..

[zalbard]

So why are they allowed to spy on people? Is that even legal?

[CraptacularOne]

That site is complete nonsense. It tells me I downloaded Conan the barbarian in November. If I was going to download a movie it sure as hell wouldnt be a sorry ass remake of a move that sucked to begin with...

Edit: just noticed that they mention that anyone with a dynamic ip is not going to report accurately in their database. If they can't even get accurate information on people they are doing the digital equivalent of slander or defamation of character to people they list.

[STaRGaZeR]

Hi. We have no records on you.

Very reliable site.

/irony


Also good luck with dinamic IPs.

[sam3]

Very reliable site.

/irony


Also good luck with dinamic IPs.

They also created a timestamp when each ip was recorded.
So If the isp records the ip's and times that they are associated to a customer then it would be possible to find out who downloaded what.

[STaRGaZeR]

Good luck coordinating ISPs with this thingie plus with the government or any other interested party. Nobody's gonna take them seriously. You could ask the ISP directly, all your data goes thru them. If that were the case, time to start using some tricks that make stuff invisible to the ISP and problem solved.

[jam2k]

That site is pure fail

[xenolith]

"Hi. We have no records on you."

You're darn right you don't.

[ajaidev]

Seems it thinks my internet portal ip is my ip which is not true. I live in Shimla a far off place compared to delhi..

"Hi Pirate IP 111.*.*.82! We got you! (In our database). You like torrents, don’t you? At least someone in your house does. It looks like you are from India, somewhere around Delhi. According to our records, you have downloaded a couple of files. Below is a table with examples. You can click on any filename to get more details. Of course, we are sure that you didn’t violate any laws of India and downloaded only legal stuff, right?"

That portal IP is used by a whole lot of people......

[Hondacity]

my isp charter monitors downloads

SOPA will give the govt more oversight :/

[EagleRock]

It says that i'm clean, Faaaaaaaaaaaaaail

[alpha0ne]

It got me dead on, I have a static ip

Hi Pirate IP ***.*.*.**! We got you! (In our database). You like torrents, don’t you? (damn straight I do) At least someone in your house does. It looks like you are from Australia

And it listed every movie I've dl'd in the last month or so


hides in the cupboard waiting for the cops to arrive..............oh and I'm not taking my tin foil hat off ever again

[Jokester_wild]

lol oh joy nothing on me, I trorent all the time.

If there was a place I could download x264 rips of the flicks I want to take with me to work which is in a camp I would pay no problem.
but there is no steam version for movies.

[randomizer]

So why are they allowed to spy on people? Is that even legal?

It's publicly available information. If you don't want your IP address known to other servers then you shouldn't be connecting to those servers. This shouldn't be any less legal than using Google Analytics (actually that captures more information than their crawler does).

It seems that a number of people here also haven't realised that this site is a joke (the data itself apparently isn't). No government agency or copyright holder is going to come after you because of this, nor will they try. After all, they have their own minions to do this.

[Kuroimaho]

Hey Pirate you downloaded GPS map pack for the other side of the world, and for a car you do not own, we got you.

They got me right...

[s1nykuL]

I don't torrent. for a couple of reasons... I have a static IP and many torrents are either not what they seem to be or are purposely infected with trojans by the seeder.

NZB+Usenet+SSL (one gets to know the reliable posters very quickly)

Of course the only things that I ever download are Linux iso's.

[m^2]

I don't know why are so many people negative about this site.
It does not do wonders. It doesn't claim to be capable of this. There are serious accuracy issues that have to plague all such tools and they are clear:
-does not cover all the torrent traffic (I read some figure of 5%)
-identifies IPs, not people
-is barely helpful for people with dynamic IPs

I doubt anybody is going to be sued for being listed on the site simply because what proof is it supposed to be?
But its usefulness lies elsewhere. It raises awareness that your download list is public. After seeing their downloads listed there, people will be more careful about what they download with torrents. Raising awareness of torrenting (and non-anonymous P2P in general) limitation will make the P2P ecosystem less vulnerable to abuses.

ADDED:
And I like how it exposes people who preach about the evils of file sharing yet have some downloads on their IPs. Like Sarkozy.

[Levish]

only a ISP could reliably correlated a dynamic IP (heck even static) used for any particular type of traffic to a resident.
which doesn't even take into account that it could still be wrong, via some sort of compromised system or something of the sort.

pointless site is pointless.

[Levish]

only a ISP could reliably correlated a dynamic IP (heck even static) used for any particular type of traffic to a resident.
which doesn't even take into account that it could still be wrong, via some sort of compromised system or something of the sort.

pointless site is pointless.