Downloaded any torrents lately?

[jpf]

http://youhavedownloaded.com

wow! plenty people go get scared now

[BW]

Hi. We have no records on you.
This means you are using a private torrent tracker or, of course, you may not be a torrent user at all! It happens. Please, entertain yourself. Feel free to see what other people have downloaded. The search box is on the top. If you have any friends who use torrents, use it to scare them off. We also have a widget that you can install in your website, blog or Facebook page. Or you can just send them a link to this site. They will see a table similar to what you see below. The only difference — they will see their downloads.

Yea this isn't scary. All they are doing is cross referencing the IP address visiting the webpage with the IP addresses on public torrents.

The process to get personally identifiable information from that IP address is long and not simple. It involves going through the local police or a lawyer, convincing them and a judge that a crime under local law has been committed, and then sending a request to the cable/telephone/internet company for their records.

That involves quite a bit of time, money and energy. These mechanisms are only applicable when there are serious breaches of the law, in which case the target should rightly be worried.

As far as piracy in t&t goes, it is a non-issue. Nobody should be scared of prosecution for online piracy when every other street corner is being used to ply illegal/pirated DVDs.

I might go so far as to say cross-referencing IP addresses like that may be useful to find other content you like. Maybe you like a particular obscure movie or band- cross reference the other IP addresses downloading and discover the other movies and music they like. Think of it as iTunes Ping, but for bittorrent.

[kemist]

I've dwnlded lots of stuff this year up till yesterday. However it saying that i dwnlded only 3 files, but actually i did not dwnld those particular files.

[indie]

@ kem

[straphanger]

I've dwnlded lots of stuff this year up till yesterday. However it saying that i dwnlded only 3 files, but actually i did not dwnld those particular files.

you on the computer you downloaded those files to or on a work/public computer?

[indie]

^ ah wonder eef he using utorrent?