This is how you’re being tracked when using BitTorrent
- January 14th, 2008
- 4 Comments
Watch and learn, people. Obviously there are other ways for this to happen, but this should give you a general overview of how it works. There are some counter measures, but nothing is fool proof. Tread lightly is what comes to mind when doing anything that’s deemed to be an act of piracy.
Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent [Torrent Freak]
Johnal (Who am I?)
10 months ago
Anyone wanna sum up what happens in the video? I’m stuck in the office late today and the vid/site is blocked. Thanks!
Anonymous
10 months ago
nothing, bit torrent lists all the peer ip addresses and that is how they track you. What a revelation.
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Paulums (Who am I?)
10 months ago
Would peer guardian 2 serve as a good enough block list?
TCP (Who am I?)
10 months ago
whats to block? They get your IP, so what, that’s useless unless you have a static IP. most leechers have dynamic IP from their ISP.
so unless they serve a warrant to your ISP to release your personal info., having an IP is irrelevant.
video was boring…you get the same results by typing netstat in dos
woot
Here is my IP: 192.168.252.1 (its useless. why? read RFC 1918)