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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 InsightIn140Bytes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Inaccurate by InsightIn140Bytes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. So that's how they'll figure out who to sue by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  4. It's a facebook account/details farming scam by tommyhj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.