I find this extremely inaccurate - especially when ISPs rotate your IP address.<p>It mentioned that I downloaded the following on Dec 11th:<p>1. Office 2016 Pro<p>2. Assassin's Creed Unity<p>3. Watchdogs<p>Not only is it completely inaccurate, no one used my internet on Dec 11th (which meant my IP was probably shuffled by my ISP to someone else).<p>This is one of the reasons why you should probably take all those DMCA notices with a pinch of salt...it's almost impossible to argue that you pirated in the first place.
This is very strange, as I highly doubt they're crawling the entire DHT space, and even if they did they would be getting only infohashes. These are hashes of (a subset of) the torent metadata (including the chunk hashes), so it won't actually tell you what the content is, unless you also download the torrent metadata from peers using BEP-0009.<p>I'd bet they're pulling popular torrent files from big sites and then pulling peer lists from the DHT. This will work OK for 'hot' content, but they could probably get much better lists if they actually connected to swarms and did peer exchange (PEX) which clients effectively have no control over - it's up to their peers if they are going to reveal addresses through PEX.<p>Also note that of course none of this will work for private torrents (which almost all clients respect) as they disable all methods of peer/metadata acquisition other than from the trackers directly.
By putting the infohash in the URL your site is effectively equivalent to The Pirate Bay - you're distributing links to pirated content, the only important thing in a magnet link is the infohash, the rest can be obtained via DHT.<p>For example:<p><a href="https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/?infohash=81ac3df677afb84211d59443fbb65f5f584cfa1a" rel="nofollow">https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/?infohash=81ac3d...</a> -> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:81ac3df677afb84211d59443fbb65f5f584cfa1a<p>Paste into torrent client and download. You might want to doublehash that to avoid a potential legal threat.
"In addition, the site offers a nifty spy tool where you can see what your friends are downloading, without knowing their IP-address. If someone clicks on a link you send them, their alleged download history shows up immediately, without the IP-address being exposed."[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bittorrent-161223/" rel="nofollow">https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bitto...</a>
Fails for me because I connect to their website via IPV6.<p><i>IPv6 is unsupported temporary</i><p>Odd though, if you don't support searching via IPV6, why have a website that accepts IPV6 connections?<p>Edit: Likely because they are using Cloudflare, which bridges IPV6 to IPV4. They should probably turn that off until they support IPV6 searches...it's under the network settings in cloudflare's control panel.
<i>How we collect data</i><p><i>Our system collects torrent files in two ways: parsing torrent sites and listening DHT network. We have more than 500.000 torrents which where classified and which are using now for collecting peer sharing facts (up to 700.000.000 daily). We don't guarantee we can show ALL peer sharing facts:</i><p><i>Single IP address could be assigned to multiple users. It depends on user's ISP. For example mobile operators often used this schema.</i><p><i>- IP address could be dynamic. In such case it changes every</i><p><i>- time user connects to the Internet or periodically.</i><p><i>- User could donwload torrent which we don't have</i>
VPN for the win! After receiving one of the threat letters from a cheesy law firm representing the RIAA and MPAA 3 years ago, all of my downloads via torrent go through a VPN. Keep yourself safe online.
Just a side-note: the attitude expressed in the Russian version of the website is nowhere that mild and neutral as in the English one. I personally do find it not only alarming, but disgusting to the very least (esp. the "torrent-tracker users deanonymization" part).<p><a href="https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ru/contacts/" rel="nofollow">https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ru/contacts/</a><p>Screenshot: <a href="http://imgur.com/a/PTiDT" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/PTiDT</a> (under the title "Сотрудничество", which means "Cooperation").<p>Here is my crude translation:<p>...<p>Cooperation<p>============<p>We are ready to share data on an automated basis, in a different cross-sections and formats.
Besides we do have the technical means for "catching" users, who do participate in the torrent-file seeding.
By means of connecting to the user's device and subsequent downloading of one tiny piece
from the torrent-file, it is possible to collect a TCP-dump of the data exchanged for that piece.
There is a unique fingerprint associated with both those data exchanged and the torrent-file itself [0].
That allows to prove the fact that torrent distribution had been taken place from the particular IP address [1].
Everything mentioned above will be potentially actual/useful in Russia [2].
If interested in cooperation, you could let us know: <cooperation-email-address><p>P.S. We also have means/possibilities to build recommendation systems, to de-anonymize torrent-trackers users and much, much more.<p>...<p>[0] I guess, they speak about "piece" from the "info" array: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file#File_structure" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file#File_structure</a><p>[1] They have downloaded it from you, so the fact of the distribution, am I missing something?<p>[2] <a href="http://hitech.newsru.com/article/03oct2016/piratefine" rel="nofollow">http://hitech.newsru.com/article/03oct2016/piratefine</a> || <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhitech.newsru.com%2Farticle%2F03oct2016%2Fpiratefine&edit-text=&act=url" rel="nofollow">https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...</a>
This is actually quite scary. They seem to be technically capable people willing to provide a service to law enforcement. They write on the Russian version of About Us page: [1]<p>We are ready to share our data, providing automated API to raw data or aggregated reports. We also have technical means to catch users who share torrent downloads. By connecting to user's computer and downloading a small piece of torrent, we can get a TCP-log of communication with the user. Data in this log have a unique "print" - crypto hash, which matches hash from the torrent. This allows to indisputably prove the fact of distribution of content from a given IP address. It will be important in Russia soon. [...] P.S.: We also can build recommendation systems, deanonymize users of torrent sites and many other things.<p>[1] <a href="https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ru/contacts/" rel="nofollow">https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ru/contacts/</a>
Interestingly despite the advice given by the Tor website 'Don't torrent over Tor', people still do this:<p><a href="https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses" rel="nofollow">https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses</a>
Unless this site only shows what you're downloading at that moment, it doesn't seem to work. It shows nothing at all for me, even though I downloaded a large public torrent (the new CentOS release ISO) a few days ago. It wasn't even from a private tracker or something like that.
The results are garbage. Zero correct results and tons of false positives.<p>Checked the last dozen or so IP addresses I used. I don't see a single valid result. I torrent lots from the most popular torrents on the biggest site. You'd think it could get that right.