Well my ISP gives out a dynamic IP address each time my DSL modem connects to them, so this tactic only reveals who downloaded what when they were assigned my current IP. Nothing much can be inferred from this data unless you are the ISP or govt and can tie the IP to the subscriber.
And yes, it shows my IP downloaded the movie Zombieland, which I never did, so it is some other subscriber of the same ISP.
This kind of thing is already done heavily by content rights-holders. If you torrent movies or games in Canada without a VPN, you will get nastygrams in your email from the rights-holders via your ISP. They're legally required to do so AFAIK, because even consumer-oriented ISPs that are very privacy driven also forward on those letters.
Apparently if you don't reply to those emails you're fine, because they can't escalate the process unless you reply - I've heard stories of people receiving dozens of these "we saw you downloading pirate stuff, stop doing that" emails.
Luckily my router only supports IPV4 and I'm assigned a vague IPv4 CGNAT IP every time I switch it on. I used this site to do some OSINT on my IP and you guessed it: It looks like I'm sharing my IP with 1000s of other subscribers so doing attribution to 'me' would be hard and also wouldn't hold up in court. Also see:
https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2011/08/why-ip-addresses-al...
https://www.securityweek.com/eff-warns-police-courts-about-u...
- Was 26
- Moved into company apartment
- Torrented stuff
- Company received a $30k lawsuit for downloading porn on company network
- Hear CEO talking to lawyers (open office)
- 99% sure it was me
- Come clean to CEO
- Was actually another c-suite who forgot they were logged into the VPN
Laughs in Usenet. The proliferation of streaming services and restricted content has me investing in alternative options more these days. It's not about paying for content, it's about content becoming less accessible again.
Off topic but this raises a question about iMesssage parsing of URLs. I copied just the base URL (without my IP, so he would get his) and sent this to a friend. The preview in iMessage lists my IP, because iMessage actually visited the link. Does the message he receives show his IP or mine?
e: Just tested this, it shows my IP on the receiving end. It appears iMessage creates the preview text on the sender’s side so this will leak your IP. I tried it in Slack too and it leaked whatever IP Slack used to fetch the URL which interestingly is not my IP.
I've been using a Seedbox since December 2014.
Best 15$/month I pay. You can even pay with Bitcoin, tho I just use PayPal.
2 TB of storage, very fast speed with caching (i.e. some torrents finish immediately if someone else has it downloaded). An uncached Blu-ray ~4 GB movie gets finished in 15-30 mins.
They also have auto-delete feature. If they get a legal complaint they just delete the offending torrent and keep my account the same, no "strikes" or anything like that.
I then download the actual content either from FTP or HTTPS. If its a movie, I just download the single .mp4 file from the portal itself (and skip the subtitle/cover files) with HTTPS straight from Chrome, or even stream it directly through VLC! I only use the FTP if there is a large number of files (e.g. series or non-ISO-packaged software).
They have servers in US, Netherlands and Singapore. I always use the Netherlands server. I doubt anyone uses the US ones.
Even better? I can use the 2 TB for whatever I want, not just for the torrents. That's cheaper than most cloud storage plans for just dummy storage without any torrenting features!
Only problem I have with torrents are unpopular movies/series usually have no seeds, but there is nothing that can be done about that. Only older clients like LimeWire/eMule didn't have that problem, but those had endless malware issues because the content wasn't verified.
Pro-tip: Do not download the actual .torrent file. Many websites are setup to redirect you into an endless loop of shady .exe downloads. Always, always just copy the magnet link to your clipboard. This also makes you safe from any network monitoring that checks for .torrent downloads. No one can prove anything if you just copy a magnet link to your clipboard then paste it to a seedbox since they don't/can't monitor clipboards. Just browsing the page which has the link is perfectly file and doesn't prove intent, vs actually downloading a .torrent file.
VPNs in comparison are quite dodgy. They have slower speeds, no torrent-caching, its possible (and happens more than it should) that the software has a bad config and skips the VPN and uses your actual connection.
Also, I can never trust that the VPN company won't share my details if they get a legal request, specially when most of them are in the US.
VPNs are useful for bypassing censored networks in a university campus or corporate network, but for torrenting they're infinitely inferior to seedboxes.
Another interesting one is to hit the "My Contributions" button on Wikipedia when you're not logged in. This will show you anonymous edits that have come from your IP address.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyContributions
There are a lot of weird people who share my IP address editing a lot of weird stuff!
Apparently Blindspot, Warrior, Hanna and the Twilight zone is pretty popular for my ip address. I've never downloaded any of these and Twilight zone is the only one i've even heard of. I also can't torrent things through my service provider, they throttle them, so i've never actually used a torrent program at all from this IP. So, that I guess...
It lists a bunch of crap especially porn and Bollywood movies and some chines stuff I cant identify what it is but certainly no one in my household torrented it. Meanwhile it does not list a single distro iso that I have been seeding for months. The IP and torrent client is correct tho. Strange.
I do give you credit of giving people a quick shot how accurate torrent detection can be if you are a casual user not using VPN. Or not using private trackers.
But.
You dont know and you are clueless that this is not my ip.
Furthermore, I have also checked my phone where I have never downloaded any torrent and you are showing 3 movies.
This is just scaremongering.
I did a few more tests.
For multiple private trackers you didnt detect anything (except your false positives), you have failed to detect there is more than one user of IP, you didnt detect VPN (but you could).
Not accurate at all.
A sane advice from this example - use VPN (from other jurisdiction than you are in and not massively well known or free), stop using public tracker.
Anyone had to trawl through a daily access log list looking to establish proof something happened? I have, it sucked and the effort in wasn't worth what we got out of it in the end.
I'm pretty confident my ISP is doing the least amount of work possible to fulfill its logging and archive requirements. Keeping track of this stuff is like cleaning up industrial waste. It's not core the money stream for ISP's so it's going to be daily logs, zipped up on glacier storage, or better just hdd's that get thrown in a container and cycled out each year.
People gotta do something these days, there's talk covid may go for 24 months!
Previously (December 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971020
Previously (December 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249578
Please do not visit this site unless if you want to be tracked.
In addition it is extremely inaccurate, it used to say that 8.8.8.8 was torrenting anime.
It says they scrape torrent sites and then listen to DHT.
But even assuming they scrape "all" torrents, what percentage of users use DHT as opposed to just trackers, and how often will a DHT request hit their server as opposed to someone else's? And are they really able to simultaneously function as part of the DHT for all torrents they've ever scraped, or is it only some small percentage at a time?
I'm just wondering if they're managing to grab something like 90% of torrenting activity, or more like 1%?
Legality aside, I'm just really curious about the technical accuracy here. Also why they chose DHT instead of connecting to trackers directly.
Wow, people at my apartment must download a LOT. Including several items listed as child pornography, about which the site declines to provide additional details; as well as this listed as regular pornography, but which I believe is actually malware-ridden audio editing software. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/?id=a8579ced8872...
Funny to see how many movies are torrented on a mobile 4g network. What a waste of bandwidth.
Interestingly, I used to download a lot of torrents years ago. When Spotify came along, it dropped at least 80%. Add Netflix and Steam and I haven't used torrents in a very long while actually. Simply because everything I need is available at an affordable price.
However, seeing how many streaming services are popping up lately, each with their own specialty and each wanting my money, (and seeing how crappy free Youtube is becoming) I feel more and more like coming back to my old habits . . .
You can turn it into a recomendation system! "People who downloaded this, also downloaded this"
I have a static IP and it shows a whole bunch of unfamiliar torrents. What am I missing, how could it show false positives for a specific IP?
Given the numerous examples of false positives / false attribution able to be extrapolated from this website's claims, I wonder if it is giving its owner(s) / operator(s) considerable legal risk.
By calling itself "I know what you download, dot com", it's potentially suggesting that "you are your IP address", thus suggesting that it is usable evidence for others to use against "you", when it actually could not be the case at all. IANAL, but this site seems legally problematic.
Smart thing to do is to use this as a content recommendation service! Or netflix can improve their catalog by knowing what content people are going off-service for.... Nevermind enforcement, this is a huge data source for marketing purposes... Wait a minute :(
It doesn’t know what I download on BitTorrent. I only download from a private tracker that is 15 years old, nice try :)
It correctly identifies my torrent client version and the fact that I have a static IP, but none of the things I know I have downloaded are on the list, and a bunch of stuff I haven't is (EDIT: it correctly identified one torrent).
Edit: Could this be due to me having a static ipv6 range, would my ipv4 address that this is looking at be shared by other people?
I can see this being used by law enforcement in countries where IP address = person that rents it.
Since everyone is taking about their experiences seeing workmates torrent, and no one is posting how this works -
Torrents are peer to peer. Bit torrent is a type of application. Bittorrent are not inclusive to torrents anymore.
Since everything is public, you can load several torrents, and watch for the handshake to occur and record the time/date and ip address.
Do it on a large enough scale and there you go.
There are many ways to secure against this, usually USA IP holders use USA cloud services or USA IP addresses. Some are public, but even if not, you can block the entire USA , so geoblocking by a simple tool such as: https://www.countryipblocks.net/acl.php
And you're pretty much in the clear. Not perfect, but pretty much.
Why are all the porn entries highlighted red? Is it meant to shame people?
I have no VPN and download stuff sporadically, stream video via torrents daily, I get nothing on this site. I guess I'm good.
I am paying for whatever I can I pay where I live - hbo, amazon prime, netflix, local services, spotify.
I think about stop paying and switch to torrents simply because of the horrible UI each of these providers has. It will probably will be more of an effort, but enough is enough.
What I want: VCL interface - start / stop / pause. What I do not want: the rest of the crap like extra info (Amazon), bad search interface (hello all), buffering issues (hello HBO, Netflix), dark patterns where you can not stop at the end of the episode, but they may let you to continue watching credits (FY everyone).
Submission from six months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102806
These sites are never accurate I don't know why they make the frontpage every couple years
The phishing link they have set up to get your friends IP is pretty shady, obviously this stuff is easy to do, but pretty weak to make it easier for folks. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/
There are people with abusive and stupid partners who wouldn't be able to get this information without doing more work or paying money.
What does it mean that I can see there are 256 comments on this article from the comment count, but only one (from flak48) is visible to me?
I wonder how long before scam extortion emails link directly to this website in an attempt to add legitimate data to their extortion attempt
Impressive! Perfect match for the few things I download from public swarms :)
Not only does this highlight the non-anonymity of BitTorrent, it also highlights what's wrong with link shorteners!
Jsut click the "Track Downloads" tab or go to https://ikwyd.com/r/QgHP to generate a short URL that lets you get the downloads for someone's IP address.
Since we're doing Tales Of Stupidity, I knew a guy who was reasonably highly placed in the UK side of a non-trivial multinational. At home he set up a kodi(?) box to play stuff he torrented. At least he did it at home. If he'd been caught he'd have lost his job and possibly got a black mark on his record that would have prevented him getting another managerial job. I don't think he considered the consequences, he just wanted stuff so he torrented. He could have paid for it, but he didn't.
In another place I worked for I had a guy from a very rich shipping family ask me about torrenting stuff illegally (soz M8, not helping ya there). This guy could have afforded to buy the media remotely, say in the US (we were in the uk), and have each disk individually couriered to him cushioned between the warm thighs of high-class call girls. He had the money but he preferred to... be stupid I suppose.
How does it know whether certain IPs are static? It labels XS4ALL's residential range correctly as static but surely the owners of this site didn't investigate a random Dutch ISP to find out whether they rotate IP addresses. Is there s registry for this sort of thing? It's not in the whois info that I can see.
Of course, "The Man in the High Castle" would be the most pirated series in North Korea [1]!
[1]: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/KP/annual/2020
The data is garbage, i am sure my IP did not changed and it shows things that I am sure nobody downloaded. I am wondering if the data is just randomly generated or the algorithm is just broken/guessing. You could create some stress for some people if such websites get credibility.
An org name search would be great. I'm sure there are plenty of gems like this one. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.14
So VPNs nowadays are meant to protect from this, but how can someone trust a VPN not to sell the details of what you've been downloading? Is it really worthwhile to use one when the VPN provider may actually in some cases be more likely to sell this data?
This thing seems pretty inaccurate. It says i tried to download fast five and Fast.And.Fierce.Death.Race. for under a second on july 1. fast and fierce is 720p and weighs in at only 800MB making it terrible quality so i know it wasn't me lol.
My IP comes up clean, which is unsurprising because I don't use Bittorrent (at least not for piracy, anyway.) Even if you are going to torrent unscrupulously though, you may as well use a VPN or, if you can justify it, a seedbox. Paying to pirate stuff alone is probably a bit illogical, but OTOH having a VPN for general usage is probably wise for any questionable P2P things. (I am not affiliated or anything but I always feel obliged to throw a recommendation for Mullvad in that regard. Even if you don't care about VPNs, they do some pretty interesting stuff, like working on Coreboot for a server platform.)
Someone commented that it almost feel impossible because of how stupid some of these situations are. I did tell my entire department,staffed with primarily young people, who just started their professional lives,that private mode in browser will not stop the company ( or me personally) from finding out what they are browsing. The horror on se of those faces!:) Then I did repeat it again to make sure everyone got it. And then, someone asked " and what about our mobiles connected to WiFi?". Yes,those too. Every single website.
It was worth the VPN investment I guess.
Eh, this site is bullshit. It just lists random content in a scareware fashion.
I’ve already tried it from a few different IPs, and not only did it list none of what I actually torrent, but it also listed shit I’ve never even heard of before. Mostly porn. And identical content across different IP’s (home static and cell LTE).
As in, I don’t torrent through my phone, and even on that (wifi turned off) I got a list of torrents with a completely different listed IP.
Is this supposed to be a hoax?
Just tried my home Internet, static IP, secure WiFi, in COVID lockdown, so no visitors.
Myself and my wife only (besides a toddler and baby). Wife doesn't normally use a computer (just mobile) and has no clue how to torrent. Site claims we torrented some MP3 three days ago; I had to Google the name of the artist.
If it's not a hoax then my best bet is some seriously impressive JS malware on a site my wife visited.
Does seem extraordinarily unlikely though.
No you don't, there might be one I dowloaded in there but most of them were definitely not downloaded by me (and no one in my house). I guess that's a good side of getting a very dynamic IP from my ISP...
And yes I know, that doesn't mean I'm protected from getting into trouble if I did something wrong since my ISP could probably link an IP and timestamp to me if asked by a lawyer.
I think it is malfunctioning. I’m sure I downloaded some Linux ISO files and all I see is a blank list. I have a static IP4 and IP6 connection
It says I "like porn", but the porn torrents it shows are not thing I've ever downloaded. I don't download porn at all. It shows things I've torrented, but the list is very inaccurate. I sure hope law enforcement doesn't one day decide to use the same information source and frame me for viewing something I didn't.
This part is outright creepy:
> We cooperate with Right Holders, Law Offices, Internet Service Providers, Advertising Agencies and National Police. We provide information about sharing/downloading content via Bittorrent Network all over the world.
It's one thing to collect this as some sort of research, but another to feed MAFIAA [1] with this data to make their job easier. The fact that they process the data without disclosing who they actually are doesn't make it any less fishy. Doesn't it violate GDPR or something?
s/you/yourIpAddress/
IP addresses are not people
This is why I am only using torrents in I2P.
My oh my... I seem to have downloaded a lot of torrents on my phone.
And I have such eclectic tastes.
Shared IPs are still very much a thing you know...
Here's your free startup idea: content owners create targeted advertising based on real-time torrent downloads. The ad is a one-time use stream link in the local user's currency for a reasonable fee. Not realistic for implicitly condoning the download, but it would make me a huge fan of the company.
i picked a random PIA Montreal Node (which supports Port forwarding) for some interesting results: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=199.229.249.191
How does it work? Do you connect to every open tracker in the planet and store all the IPs they give you?
AFAIK this site only uses DHT (Distributed Hash Table) sniffing to track IPs.
Disable DHT in the torrent client settings.
Somewhat surprisingly, it finds nothing for mine (likely some rando IP from my ISP... though that only makes it more surprising).
I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this. Am I not torrenting enough? Do blocklists work? Did my ISP recently acquire an Amish IP block?
Neat, now I know what everyone using my vpn provider has downloaded!
I will happily recommend that everyone buy a router that can be flashed and pipe all your traffic through a VPN. It doesn't give you perfect security, but it defeats a lot of attempts to deanonimize like this.
Since I go through a VPN, I'm more accurately seeing what other people who use my same VPN are torrenting. Surprisingly not as much porn as I would have guessed?
A pity that the output columns seem to be fixed, or else I could probably do some fun analysis.
This appears to be scraping the distributed public peer mechanism (PEX), distributed torrent metadata distribution system (DHT) and public tracker announces (which, by necessity, contain peer IPs for locating other members of a swarm).
I always find it funny to see what shows up when I switch to mobile and see what gets tracked via CG-NAT.
As a Canadian, I guess others have much much much better plans that I do. We pay $5-$10/go here. Maybe telecom employees get unlimited plans?
We were hosting an Au Pair from sweden. One day comcast sent us an email saying our IP address had been used to illegally download content.
I confronted her about it, and she lied denying it was her.
Needless to say, we never received another complaint.
Off topic: I was trying to see the comments for this link - there are 258 of them apparently - but all I can see, in multiple browsers, is 1 comment from "flak48". No other HN topics are behaving like this.
I switched my phone off of wifi to cellular and got some entertaining results
Great idea, Ads have to go from the top. It made using the tool with interest turn into a negative experience.
If ads must exist, they should be at the bottom where users, after being delighted can decide to click on it.
Hilariously I hadn't even heard any of the things listed and I even went through the whole subnet!
I think if anything this website is a good illustration of how IP =/= person and should never be assumed it is.
Interesting, for the dynamicish ip my ISP gives me nothing at all. Turn on my cheapo vpn provider and rather a lot.... Virtually all video both clean and dirty, tiny amount of music, no apps at all.
Just checked on our company vpn. Sure enough, someone has been downloading gigabytes. The legal issues are one thing, but screwing up the speed and stability of our shared internet is even worse!
Opened this junk from my home ip. Site says I (or somebody from my address) downloaded several soapy shit. It's pretty stupid to say that "you downloaded" those movies. First of all, torrenting is hell expensive in most of Europe. In Germany any ISP will immediately pass every bit of information they have about you to companies like ip-eschelon (and others who talking lawyer-ish) after first letter with mention of piracy. Next letter will land in your mailbox and resulting summ will surprise you. If you have lawyer insurance of personal lawyer, total pay me be decreased but not avoided. So, I will ask author of this site to avoid this kind of provoking stressful and insulting and puzzling wording.
I'm on dynamic IP, so it doesn't show me anything relevant. Only an update for World of Tanks downloaded a week ago... I haven't played World of Tanks in three years.
Joke's on you. I'm behind CGNAT.
Joke's on me. I'm behind CGNAT.
This is why all torrenting should be done with a throw-away device (ie. cheap second-hand android device) on a public internet access point (ie: the library or a coffee shop).
Jokes on you, my ISP has double NAT and I'm pretty sure 1000s are sharing my IP. Good luck finding what I download.
Sadly it's also the same thing that I absolutely hate about my ISP.
Someone who use the same VPN as me really loves classical music.
Piracy benefits us all.
It brings art and knowledge to millions that wouldn't otherwise have access to it.
The rest of society benefits indirectly too, by having these enriched persons in their midst.
> I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
No, they don't. They don't know anything I've torrented.
I've been using the same _private_ tracker for about a decade. 10 TB downloaded.
Obviously stupid to use work resources to do it. But from home there simply are no real repurcussions. You get a letter and it goes in the trash with no followup.
I like connecting through a VPN and then refreshing the page
I use a VPN on my home network and do not see any records via this website.
Am I missing something, or is my impression that this tool can “see through” tunneled traffic false?
interesting, I have not downloaded anything from my IP address. Also, my partner has doesn't even know the existence of the Bittorrent. Yet, we have a list of all kinds' of interesting files that we have apparently downloaded. Either someone is using our IP address to download things by hijacking our wifi, or something else is going on. As far as I know we don't share our IP, something to investigate here.
I've got a fair number of torrents I've been seeding for who knows how long.
And this site says I don't have anything.
I don't use a VPN, but I use an invite-only tracker.
The good news is that it doesn't see any of my private tracker linux downloads and since I only download linux on private trackers the list is empty.
Meta-question: There are supposedly 274 comments on this article as I write this, yet I can see only 1. Is this an error? Has the discussion been locked?
I just checked from my (government) building’s connection and, well...someone has been downloading some Lovecraftian horror movies. Not what I expected.
Uh Oh looks like one of Trump's interns is using cracked software and pirating movies
Tried it from my phone. I guess cool to see people torrent from their mobile connections? I'd have to ask for a loan in order to do that.
IP being dynamic, I don't really know how this affect end users. The list for my (current) IP shows a bunch of stuff I never downloaded.
I tried connecting to NordVPN and loading up this page. Hundreds of results show up, and surprisingly less than half of it is pornography.
Guess they don't know about private trackers.
I torrented CentOS 8 in December; I must have been given another DHCP address since then, since the site shows an empty list for me.
According to the results, they know what a housemate of mine downloaded... I don't think I'll bring it up in conversation.
I had nothing for my actual home IP, but if you want to see something fire up your VPN and see what they have listed for that IP ;)
Not really. It shows what people using my current VPN exit have downloaded. And seriously, TPB warns people to use VPN services.
How does this work? I thought the whole idea of the torrent protocol was to prevent identification of who downloads what.
This list must be violating integrity-policies and be illegal. This is similar to publishing DNS look-ups related to IP.
How is this usable in any legal system ? There is a huge difference between downloading content and clicking on a link.
Interesting - I have a fixed IP at home and this shows me having downloaded a Debian ISO recently, which is correct.
Might be worth keeping in mind that carrier grade NAT and dynamically allocated addresses are both pretty common.
List is blank for me, but definitely shouldnt be, so no it definitely does not know what I download on BitTirrent.
a) this is creepy b) I have wondered this... you know those letters some ISPs send to people telling them what they downloaded illegally? Do they send that stuff to VPN providers? Because it seems like they would just get flooded. I connected to my VPN service and there are thousands on that IP range.
Too bad my place is assigned behind layers of NAT, ( or basically CGNAT ) which is basically useless to trace.
This mostly shows me what other customers of my VPN in various countries like to download.
I'm on a personal 4G sim wifi router currently and the results are completely wrong.
Great, you just reminded me of my favourite trash TV series which is stuck at 80% :(
It is interesting. I was expecting to see blue data leak, but nothing showed up.
I have not downloaded any of these, how are these associated with my IP address?
It shows the linux distros I have torrented but not any piracy lol
That "Track Downloads" feature seems highly unethical.
Why does this appear with 272 comments but I can only see one?
Just checked while on mullvad, that's a lot of porn....
Interesting... shows me a list of things I didn’t download!
Makes me glad I have never been tempted to use BitTorrent.
Not really with carrier grade NAT that has a dynamic IP.
How does BitTorrent handle Carrier level NATs with IPv4?
This is honestly fascinating if you're a VPN user.
I can only see one comment for some reason?
Funny it categorizes Big Buck Bunny as XXX.
blackarch-linux-live-2020.06.01-x86_64.iso 14.37GB
I'm totally outed.
Those other IPs in my subnet do like their porn. Well, someone's porn.
...last summer.
Does this really work?
Not seeing any torrents of mine.
The info on my IP is not correct lmao
It matched my downloads 100%. Wow.
It has things I didn’t download.
Regretting that static IP now :)
doesn't work for me ..
Thanks for recommendations
Completely innacurate information and doesn't even know what is being torrented right now.
haha, no you don't.
No you don't. :)
VPN is working :)
> nothing
nice :sunglasses:
just check it out mine then :P
Completely innacurate information.
lol....no you don't
not working
Apparently not.
weird
Ouch... my town is on the same IP range, so I can see my neighbours' activity. I could probably even tell who it is.
On the up side, static IP makes it easy to quite reliably host stuff on my own computers, in my home.
I wonder how this API could work in terms of travel prep. If you wanted to watch the most torrented films in a given city before coming, seems like it could work out well.
With encryption, if anyone join as a peer NOT to join the torrent distribution, is that considered computer hacking under the DMCA?
I currently have 44 active torrents, this site doesn't show any of them, none of my friends torrents either. Cool concept tho.
Great promotion for VPN services.
Looks like my neighbors are huge fans of some nasty pr0n.
This is cooler than the other
Is Torrent still a thing? I'm not sarcastic here, just not downloading music since Napster. Is it common for you to install a torrent client on your machine?
An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box.
We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down via the IP) that we were engaging in piracy. We sent an email to everyone with access, saying whoever was doing it to stop. Then we got a second email (a final warning).
Everyone denied doing it, so I had to find the offender via checking the bash history of the box for all users.
Sure enough a couple of mkv files had been downloaded and deleted by an intern :( Making the mistake of downloading it was forgiveable once, since we lived in a culture where piracy was rampant / normal (this was before Netflix et al were available in my country). But repeating the offense, failing to come clean and making us waste our time to locate who did it was not. (This was a small 7 person startup so trust was super important).
As for why the intern needed to ssh into a digital ocean box to run a torrent? The college internet (where he was working from) blocked torrent connections and he wanted to be the first one to download and release the episodes on the college intranet. Smh.