hmm....

*wanders over to website*

Hi. We have no records on you.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

nothing to worry about folks.

Oh BOY do the commenters have no idea how this works.

1) Poll public trackers for their user list. It apparently does this by trawling through piratebay, etc, and pinging individual torrents. It then records the user list the tracker sends them, and (presumably) disconnects.
2) It adds the name of the torrent to all the IPs it got back.
3) After a while, it has a very large list of IPs and the torrents they're downloading.
4) When you visit the site, it passes you the record for the IP you're using.

Now, since trackers typically don't provide HISTORICAL information to remote users, you have to actually be connected to that tracker at the same time as this service's spider to be recorded.

It can't record data from private trackers- because without a valid login, the tracker won't tell the spider anything.

By the way, this is the same way content owners determine who to send C&Ds to.

Here's what happens when you try the IP addresses of major media companies and other assholes... (new window)

/no records on me...

I've seen this elsewhere, and as people have pointed out the option to remove yourself looks crazy suspicious. For one, to request it you have to agree that the data is accurate and you have to log in with your Facebook account.

I didn't bother trying to remove myself for several reasons, including that it's only showing three things for me. Two animes that I didn't download, but I guess my roommate may have, and a porn movie I got off a public tracker cause I couldn't find it on the private tracker I normally use. I'm guessing they don't keep records on private trackers?

PeerGuardian2 seems to work pretty well against this thing, which is nice. It's also weird to see every title downloaded around me is porn, though. You'd think there would be at least one cam copy of The Babysitter or something...

As someone who uses DSL I am not worried that much.

Dynamic IP addresses ftw

/And yes, it shows me downloading one episode of Boss

Oh, any bets on how much longer this will be up before anonymous takes it down?

cman: it shows me downloading one episode of Boss

Cake? Or Who's The?

...Oh, there's a show called that by itself? With neither Cake Boss Cake Boss nor Tony Danza?

Oh god, imagine Tony Danza AS CAKE BOSS. Cake Boss

The website clear does state "Don't take it seriously".

kingoomieiii: cman: it shows me downloading one episode of Boss

Cake? Or Who's The?

...Oh, there's a show called that by itself? With neither Cake Boss Cake Boss nor Tony Danza?

Oh god, imagine Tony Danza AS CAKE BOSS. Cake Boss

If I had to guess, you've been listening to too many Paul F Thompkins podcasts

SnakeLee: If I had to guess, you've been listening to too many Paul F Thompkins podcasts

I'm seriously like 20 hours behind on Pod F. Tompkast and Doug Loves Movies. Caught up on CBB though.

I guess I shouldn't take it too seriously because I was DLing part 2 of "Bag of Bones" when I checked the site & it says it has no records on me.

Bathia_Mapes: I guess I shouldn't take it too seriously because I was DLing part 2 of "Bag of Bones" when I checked the site & it says it has no records on me.

That means it hadn't checked the torrent you were using. It doesn't check your IP when you log in- it's checking TORRENTS and recording who's using them. But obviously it can only check so many, so frequently.

Of course I haven't, since there is a mechanism by which I can pay for music I want to download to my computer.

Movies..well, if there was a legal way I could stream that, I would pay for that too. But since there isn't, it's not my fault I have to obtain their works by alternative means.

kingoomieiii: Bathia_Mapes: I guess I shouldn't take it too seriously because I was DLing part 2 of "Bag of Bones" when I checked the site & it says it has no records on me.

That means it hadn't checked the torrent you were using. It doesn't check your IP when you log in- it's checking TORRENTS and recording who's using them. But obviously it can only check so many, so frequently.

Thanks.

As such, it stops short of parsing through "dynamic" IP addresses

That is most of the internets.

Hmm, you have to wonder if the whole thing just isn't an exercise to record the IPs of people who visit, as they are more likely to be downloaders.

Weaver95: hmm....

*wanders over to website*

Hi. We have no records on you.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

nothing to worry about folks.

Double D Nympho's in Heat- What is that about... Global Warming?

GAT_00: Hmm, you have to wonder if the whole thing just isn't an exercise to record the IPs of people who visit, as they are more likely to be downloaders.

That was my thought -- "that's the last site on the Internet that I'd ever visit!"

Because People in power are Stupid: dynamic

Yeah, doesn't that make this website lean toward the useless side of things? Who even has a static IP address anymore?

A MUD I used to play had a "where" project where you could mail your location to the admins and they would tag it by IP. The project became completely irrelevant when most users were switched over to dynamic IPs. Issuing the "where" command would show you a bunch of "anonymous" users who frequently changes IPs, maybe one or two people whose location was correct, and a handful whose location was actually incorrect due to IP recycling.

/NSB

Adding that sites ip range to peerblock.. Thanks MSM!

Meatzilla: [www.youhavedownloaded.com image 640x79]

Oddly enough, that was the same result I got. For something I've never heard of, while browsing in a hotel I've never stayed at that is thousands of miles away from you.

baufan2005: Well I went there from my phone and it says im from Louisana, which im not. Then it says I've downloaded something called aperture 3 which I've never heard of.

Heh, I tried the same thing (iPhone) and it told me it couldn't figure out where I was, but I apparently downloaded Z-Ro-Meth-2011-CR.

After a quick search I apparently downloaded a new CD from some Houston rapper named Z-Ro who put out an album this year titled Meth. It follows other wonderful albums such as Heroin (2010), Cocaine (2009), and 2008's smash hit Crack.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

maybe we need to change the copyright/piracy laws to force the owner of the copyright to get the websites taken down?
if the illegal material wasnt on the website, there would be no way for people to steal it, right ??



LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Nexzus: Apparently my fiancee downloaded Gym Class Heros - stereo hearts last month.

This is the time where you draw up a fake RIAA Threat letter and hand it to her. She'll freak the hell out when you show her the website and her single download of GCH which will cost y'all the entire wedding. Then while she's crying say "You wouldn't download a marriage certificate would you?!"

/At least I would do it

Well they have no record of me downloading MLP:FiM

vegasj: Raug the Dwarf: I just checked on this work machine that I'm using now. It says someone downloaded Mystery Men from this IP address. Firstly, our work servers have a wicked DNS blocker that makes it impossible to access any file sharing or torrent sites. And secondly, Mystery Men? Who the hell is downloading that?

your IT guy?

That was my first thought as well. "A bunch of computers here at work are slowing down our network for some kind of WoW raid. Who could be behind such a thing? I have literally no suspects in mind..."