Comments on: Code To Track BitTorrent Users Bought For $750 (Max) http://torrentfreak.com/code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Borderliner /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-652608 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:38:21 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-652608 An additional note: a tracker announce is, from a technical point, just a HTTP query. Have a complete announce URL on a website, click it in your browser and the tracker will list you as a peer. That´s all that´s needed, you don´t have to download or upload anything, you don´t even have to have a BT client running or even installed, just clicking a link is enough.
Now, if the only thing the accuser has against you is being in a tracker´s list without actually verifying that data can be downloaded from you then there, obviously, is a problem.

]]> By: Borderliner /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-652605 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:24:10 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-652605 - Tor – same problem as VPN, except
- this one is even easier. What’s
- the difference between your IP
- address and every IP address on
- the Tor network? Your IP address
- is registered to a residential
- location whilst all the others are
- servers based in datacenters. This
- makes it trivial to see who are
- nodes and who are clients of Tor
– or any other non-botnet style
- routing network.

I think you have a small mixup here. Most Tor communication goes through 3 different relays, also most relays service more than 1 user. So if the watcher knows 2 IPs (the Tor node´s and the user whom they are monitoring) then this is not enough. They need atleast 3 different IPs – the user´s, the entry node´s (ie the user´s side of the Tor chain) and the exit node´s (the other peer´s or tracker´s side). Yes, it is possible to monitor them all, but Tor´s global usage makes this atleast mildly difficult. Also quite a number (I´d say most even) of Tor nodes are run on homelines, not on dedicated servers that are situated in a datacentre.
The problem with Tor is that it´s slow, wasting available resources on P2P is not generally liked and you ought to appear “unconnectable” to the other peers, which diminishes your chances on connecting and receiving decent peers even more.

]]> By: Anonymous /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-652151 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:29:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-652151 PulsedMedia provides good servers…and a cheap one for only 13 USD a month (115GB, 256 MB, 100mbit)

link…

http://pulsedmedia.com/clients/affiliates.php

]]> By: Think about it /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-652109 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:45:33 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-652109 @22 Apr 04, 2010 at 22:55 by so_easy

so_wrong you mean

clients routinely record wrong IPs. They also routinely connect with people that do not have clients. The trackers also routinely report incorrect IPs. Get your facts straight.

]]> By: Digital Economy Bill - Page 2 - OneHitGamer /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-651759 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:15:35 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-651759 [...] [...]

]]> By: Anonymous /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-651344 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:20:46 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-651344 If this hasn’t been done already, a website should be setup and it’s purpose should be to gather innocent victims who have been receiving these pay up or else letters, and then at some point, having a class action lawsuit setup against ACS:Law. Maybe bankrupting them will teach other low-life law firms to back off.

]]> By: Software per monitorare pagato fra le 250 e le 750, sterline « YBlog /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-651205 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:02:51 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-651205 [...] di risalire agli indirizzi IP ed alle prove della presunta infrazione ed una persona fortemente coinvolta in questo lavoro è Terence Tsang, che ha già prestato i suoi servizi anche per gli avvocati della Davenport [...]

]]> By: Anonymous /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-651155 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:38:38 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-651155 how would this software translate a list of IP addresses in its database to IP addresses actually participating in and making available files

]]> By: TerribleTony /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-651153 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:25:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-651153 @39 Pinging an IP address proves nothing you idiot.

]]> By: TerribleTony /code-to-track-bittorrent-users-bought-for-750-max-100404/#comment-651152 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:21:41 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=22886#comment-651152 I bet they got sold uTorrent with a different skin. It does have logging already built in.

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