Comments on: Tracking a BitTorrent Swarm in Google Earth

By: gandalfur

gandalfur — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:24:59 +0000

wondering if they built this from the same thing they had a couple of years back when you could type in someone’s phone number and get their house and other personal info – myself i think this stinks bad as though us pirates dont already have enuff bs to put up with and of course we could always just join private sites not knowing whether theyll be any safer think i better start a legal saving account very soon

By: Gobba

Gobba — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:05:04 +0000

Still nowhere to get the plugin?

By: jshwaz

jshwaz — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:48:09 +0000

Does anyone have a mirror or a copy of this plugin. it looks interesting but the site is down.

By: kronpas

kronpas — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:30:40 +0000

it requires username and password to download the plugin :(

anyway, the ablitity to pinpoint exactly where you re like the pic. s quite creepy. =)

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:19:09 +0000

What is the username and password to download Swarm Plugin for google earth??

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:17:33 +0000

What is the username and password to download Swarm Plugin for google earth??

Thanks

Gavin

By: tom

tom — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:45:13 +0000

My comment seems a bit harsh, sorry about that.
yeah, the “exact location” phrase, the “pay leechers a visit” phrase, and the picture. I guess most people reading this do know, but i bet some people were freaked out. (my comment did get erased though)
Thank you for responding.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:44:01 +0000

First of all, I never delete comments.

Second, I never said their street address is available. Of course you can’t use an ip to track down street addresses. Most of the readers know that. This is just a fun gadget, don’t take it too serious.

I guess you’re upset about the “their exact location” phrase. Well, perhaps I shouldn’t have stated it that bold, but like in most articles on TorrentFreak, you need to read between the lines. I’m sure most readers will know how things work.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:01:26 +0000

I see my comment was removed. wonder why? (but I’ll try again)
Uuummm, is an incredibly unintelligent article or what? Why are you (Ernesto) trying to make people think their street address is available to the public when they are in a bittorrent swarm?
Do you actually believe this to be true?
Is there no editor for this site? Someone who say, understands filesharing a little better than you apparently do?

By: Shawners

Shawners — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:56:47 +0000

ITs not acurate, the maps havent been updated since 1998-2000.

By: Idiots

Idiots — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:16:30 +0000

?? Correct statement from upper. Your IP can only tell where you are getting your internet from. at most it would show the location of the ISP of the IP. and to respond to taklamakan, from my usage of googleearth, all you gotta do is click (even in pic above) Directions:to here. and bam.. it gives you directions just like mapquest would. but.. since IPs dont tell home info, but more server info.. i think your safe.

By: dpoip

dpoip — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:28:34 +0000

anyone got a mirror for the file?

By: Jasper van Weerd

Jasper van Weerd — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:13:54 +0000

Is the website down?

By: taklamakan

taklamakan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:54:46 +0000

This is no big privacy issue at all.

First the data is not that good to pin-point to your exact location (like GPS coordinates or something) and second the data used to do that is already available via projects like GeoIP. This is just an visualisation of this data, a nice one ;-)

Remember: bittorrent is not anonymous.

By: Hairbautt

Hairbautt — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:03:42 +0000

I don’t like it either. If swear if anyone shows up at my house we’ll have some good ol’ fashion southern justice.

By: sk

sk — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:36:42 +0000

is it just me or does anyone think this is HUGE privacy issue?

Even if you are downloading LEGAL (not pirated material) content, I really don’t want it too be that easy for people to know where I live.

By: Netmaster

Netmaster — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:47:39 +0000

[quote]“so you can pay leechers a visit if their share ratio is not what it’s supposed to be.” [/quote]
LOL hahahahaha!!! Funny!

By: Liars

Liars — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:21:09 +0000

I don’t like it.

By: a

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:18:02 +0000

I actually took time to think the benefits of this but never got one.

By: smartass

smartass — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:16:51 +0000

SKINS i was thinking the same thing