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Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP
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."
MPAA? It's just some russian guys. Besides, all of that data is already visible and copyright infringement companies are probably gathering much more data than some guys who made that site.
It's not scare tactics to let you know what data there is out about you. Unless you want to be ignorant and feel happier if you don't know it.
They obviously can't get information about who uses what IP at what times. But don't worry, when court orders come and you're going to be sued, your ISP has that info and will be able to find you.
I was thinking on some sort of phishing scam...
Honeypot for catching what? Visiting such a site is not evidence of piracy.
Rethinking email
Well, getting people's personal data voluntarily (well, okay, via semi-blackmail) is one way to reduce the workload for your legal staff.
Seriously, who would be stupid enough to login to facebook and FURTHER link themselves? This is just asking to be sued.
Please help metamoderate.
They don't need evidence they just have send a letter to your ISP saying you are a pirate.
They should give links to the torrents in question when listing the files downloaded. Then the site would be useful.
you're an idiot.
I visited site out of curiosity. I don't pirate, yet they say I downloaded a bunch of shows (CSI Miami? Please, who watches that? Well, not me.) I am starting to think that site is not at all legit.
"It's a Wonderful Life" is a horrible movie.
The only reason it's remembered is because it fell into the public domain.
see you in Hell, modpoints!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Uh, that's how it's always been, ever since 2001 or so. I've tweaked the hell out of my account settings over the years, and when they did that awful 2.0 update earlier this year I think (when the option later became available) I set the discussion style to "Classic Discussion System (D1)", which may allow that option. But I guess that's the pitfall of posting without a net!
P.S. the stock D1 settings are terrible, adjust your score modifiers accordingly:
Insightful +1
Offtopic +1
Flamebait +1
Troll +1
Informative +6
Redundant -4
Friend +6
Fan+6
Foe +6
anonymous Modifier +1
New User Modifier +1
Small Comment Modifier1, -1
Long Comment Modifier 1, +1
And then browse at a threshold at +3, Threaded, Oldest First, Index Spill 600 and Reparent Highly Rated Comments as "True". Also helps if you have a healthy friends/foes list. Anybody willing to stick their neck out as an expert in a particular field and making a particularly informative post usually gets an add.
moox. for a new generation.
You still watch TV?
Not every Win PC (like my gaming rig for example) is automatically compromised and infected with bots. While it is possible, I see it as rather unlikely, since I have enough expertise to prevent anything that is not specifically target at me.
Much more reasonable assumption is that a) I didn't notice recent IP shuffle b) Database is randomly generated c) Database is not randomly generated, but might as well be due to methodology flaws.
If you are dynamic IP, that is why. In addition,
There. Fixed that for ya.
Gathering torrent IP's from popular sites isn't difficult.
But they clearly want people very badly to sign in with their facebook accounts. First they're scaring people to sign in by promising removal from their database. If you visit the site again they provide you with a choice - an impossible (!) captcha or facebook. It's social hacking.
First off - don't let them scare you. Copyright holders has all the info anyway. Second, don't ever give away your facebook credentials to a third party that you don't trust. Third, don't trust these people.