be aware of sites like this, and that torrent activity is easy to amass data on

I want people to understand how these things work and to be aware that everything on the internet is public. finally understand that all this data collection can be done entirely by an individual, public actor without any necessary special sums of money or influence or power.

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    We don’t guarantee we can show ALL peer sharing facts:

    • Single IP address could be assigned to multiple users. It depends on user’s ISP. For example mobile operators often used this schema.
    • IP address could be dynamic. In such case it changes every time user connects to the Internet or periodically.
    • User could download torrent which we don’t have.
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      3 years ago

      First item in my case. There’s torrented content that makes me sick(*), so be prepared for that if you check. You might read shit you didn’t expect to.

      (*) that’s not illegal so I guess nothing can be done