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Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP

Posted by Soulskill on from the exposing-the-obvious dept.

tsu doh nimh writes "You may have never heard of youhavedownloaded.com, but if you recently grabbed movies, music or software from online file-trading networks, chances are decent that the site has heard of you. In fact, you may find that the titles you downloaded are now listed and publicly searchable at the site, indexed by your Internet address. So far, youhavedownloaded.com has recorded more than 50 million unique Internet addresses belonging to file-sharing users. The site is searchable by file name and by Internet address. When you visit, it automatically checks and lets you know if your Internet address is in the database."

6 of 340 comments (clear)

  1. indexed by your Internet address by smoothnorman · · Score: 5, Funny

    But my Internet address is not here. It's in Joe's house, that's right next to mine. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Makelin's house, and a hundred others.

  2. Re:Already defeated... by forkfail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Already defeated By-Tor

    Yes, the Snow Dog did.

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  3. Re:Not so much by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I swear, I was downloading Ubuntu for a friend. I'm a Fedora man through and through!

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  4. Re:Zero results by Hadlock · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep (AC here - sorry!) Both myself and my neighbors (we share a connection) are pretty heavy BT users (we use Azureus or "Vuze Classic") and the IP didn't show up anything. We've had the same IP for at least 18 months. Either they're inflating their numbers drastically (who says they aren't lying horribly? This is the MPAA/RIAA after all) or only using encrypted trackers seems to have some effect.

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  5. Re:Zero results by Hadlock · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hah. Uh, always hit preview when posting as an AC!

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  6. Re:Geez, we're down to scare tactics now, huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here I come sunny Somalia!