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Website tells you what you pirated
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 13 December, 2011
Website tracks your BitTorrent activity.
Youhavedownloaded.com is a website setup to show what files have been downloaded using BitTorrent trackers by a specific IP address. The site claims to have almost 53 million "users" in its database, from 113,200 tracked torrents containing almost 2 million files.
When you visit the website, it will check you IP address automatically and present ... [ read the full article ]
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Mysttic
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13. December 2011 @ 22:08 |
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I am in the clear! Just goes to show you this site is limited to what it can find, as I never denied being a pirate. Evidently you need to have DHT on, and that ain't happening on mine.
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flyingpen
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13. December 2011 @ 23:18 |
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At the bottom of the page it says "Don't take it seriously" an if you click it, it says
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Don't take it seriously
The privacy policy, the contact us page ? it?s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked ? to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn?t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That?s the beauty of jokes ? you can make them out of anything.
However, if you have a better idea ? don?t hesitate to contact us.
so... its all a prank?
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13. December 2011 @ 23:35 |
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It doesn't seem to work...I've downloaded countless Linux distros using torrents, and it says I have not downloaded anything.
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13. December 2011 @ 23:59 |
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Originally posted by flyingpen:
At the bottom of the page it says "Don't take it seriously" an if you click it, it says
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Don't take it seriously
The privacy policy, the contact us page ? it?s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked ? to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn?t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That?s the beauty of jokes ? you can make them out of anything.
However, if you have a better idea ? don?t hesitate to contact us.
so... its all a prank?
No Idea, I've checked across several other sites that reported it and in comments its a mixture of feedback. Some say the results look accurate, while others don't get any. I'll keep an eye on it anyway. If it's a prank... it's a little bit early (or late) for April Fool's Day... but no reason this kind of tracking couldn't be done on at least public BitTorrent sites, and obviously already is by some anti-piracy firms.
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Morreale
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14. December 2011 @ 00:45 |
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Got nothin' on me...
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14. December 2011 @ 00:50 |
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Haha...mine came up with 100% accuracy of the songs that my family has downloaded, along with my download of Trojan Remover :p
Good reminder to disable DHT on my laptop...doh!
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flyingpen
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14. December 2011 @ 04:05 |
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Originally posted by Dela:
Originally posted by flyingpen:
At the bottom of the page it says "Don't take it seriously" an if you click it, it says
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Don't take it seriously
The privacy policy, the contact us page ? it?s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked ? to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn?t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That?s the beauty of jokes ? you can make them out of anything.
However, if you have a better idea ? don?t hesitate to contact us.
so... its all a prank?
No Idea, I've checked across several other sites that reported it and in comments its a mixture of feedback. Some say the results look accurate, while others don't get any. I'll keep an eye on it anyway. If it's a prank... it's a little bit early (or late) for April Fool's Day... but no reason this kind of tracking couldn't be done on at least public BitTorrent sites, and obviously already is by some anti-piracy firms.
Well, if you go to the Privacy and contact information... It is REALLY jokey~. Like... not even trying to be serious which makes me really think that it's either a prank with a bunch of people playing along for the lols, or they did it a little bit, and posted what they found but don't plan on collecting anymore data.
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Mysttic
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14. December 2011 @ 08:53 |
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It doesn't seem to work...I've downloaded countless Linux distros using torrents, and it says I have not downloaded anything.
Maybe they don't consider linux distros pirated content. For all we know this strictly uses a media file search (avi, mp3, mpg, mkv, flv, etc) I got bored started clicking through some of the members, I didn't see any programs just movies and music.
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Mr_Bill06
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14. December 2011 @ 19:27 |
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Got nothing on mine 100% accurate. I think you are right Mysttic, they must only scan for games, movies, porn, and music. Some software is sold or freely available on torrents like Linux distros. I guess they just want to make sure they just get the dirt on people.
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Morreale
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14. December 2011 @ 22:33 |
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McMaster University Thode Library shows the complete season 4 of The Big Bang Theory and MS Office 2010 downloaded lol
There's hundreds of students in this library everyday though, many of them torrenting. IMO this site isn't very good...
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marcusj0015
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14. December 2011 @ 23:48 |
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I sees 3 files that I've downloaded this month. nothing from the past is showing up tho, and not all of what I've downloaded has appeared either.
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foxykay
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15. December 2011 @ 15:28 |
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Its got a few PSX ISO's on me, torrent was the only place I could get them, newzgroups for everything else
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Jeffrey_P
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15. December 2011 @ 15:50 |
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Since I don't use Torrents, thought I'd make sure there was nothing on me.
Nothing....
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15. December 2011 @ 19:33 |
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Ive downloaded seasons 1-4 of eureka 3 days ago and it says Ive got nothing. even have DHT on.
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Jeffrey_P
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15. December 2011 @ 21:18 |
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15. December 2011 @ 22:15 |
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Jeffrey_P
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15. December 2011 @ 22:26 |
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Originally posted by bobiroc:
Peerblock FTW
Yep, it's amazing how much crap happens beneath your nose.
Not just the basics but movie studios, Music money grubbers and more.
Maybe I should of never installed Peerblock. It makes me a bit paranoid for no reason.
Jeff
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hearme0
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19. December 2011 @ 17:34 |
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I'm clear as a bell here but I will never state that I have downloaded hundreds of gigs of movies and music and software...................because I HAVEN'T.
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