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Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Fonz@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Toribor@corndog.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Exposing your public IP to the website itself is not typically as much of a risk. Bad actors would have to get law enforcement to force the website owners to turn over visitor and activity logs to prove that your public IP visited a site and downloaded a torrent. But if that same IP never downloaded or uploaded content using that torrent, then there is no real evidence of actual media sharing.

[-] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That makes sense but leads me to another question.. How do site like IP torrents track the user upload / download ratio? Say if I were to log in and use my home internet connection to download a torrent file from there and then use a seedbox to do the download the contents? It can’t be IP based as the IP’s would be different; is each torrent file downloaded different for each user?

[-] Toribor@corndog.uk 1 points 2 years ago

My experience with private torrents is a little out of date but you might be right, that could cause problems with how your seed ratio is reported for trackers.

[-] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just went down a rabbit hole.. Turns out IPTorrents give a different torrent file for each user so it’s independent of IP address. It’s the torrent client that reports back the down and upload volumes. Now need to see if this info could be used by the rights holders for claims…