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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."

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  1. Re:Geez, we're down to scare tactics now, huh by ZackZero · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except there's also a disclaiming "Don't take it seriously" link at the page; essentially, they've only made a proof-of-concept.

  2. Re:Honeypot? by Totenglocke · · Score: 5, Informative

    The best part is, the site wants you to log in using facebook to "prove you're human" - that way they can pin an IP address to an actual name and email address. If you don't use the facebook link, they provide something like a 26 letter long captcha (which as far as I can tell, will never let you in, thus forcing you to log in via facebook if you want to view the site). This site sounds like an extreme scam.

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  3. Re:Honeypot? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Informative

    It looks like they scrape popular torrent sites like TPB and then list every address in the swarm. Problem one is that legal torrents are on there too, and problem two is that trackers list fake random IP addresses to make the data unreliable in court.

    My home IP address is listed with torrents I never touched, and so is my mobile one. That is despite that fact that Vodafone blocks BitTorrent and I have never used it on my 1GB/month plan.

    The whole site is a troll, clearly they either don't understand the data they are collecting or they are deliberately misrepresenting it.

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