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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.




> Furthermore, I have also checked my phone where I have never downloaded any torrent and you are showing 3 movies. This is just scaremongering.

Not sure if this is the same in every country but mobile phones in UK jump around the same IP block pretty frequently (i.e all day long) even when standing still - i'm using this as home internet so i notice.

IP addresses are re-used all the time, this is why it's not usually permissible as evidence in court.

The down side of such frequent IP changes is i'm pretty much permablocked by google and captcha'd to death by them due to frequently swapping IPs with in pool of users with malware (now i've completely given up using google.com).


Yep, typically phone companies put mobile internet behind NAT, exactly this is why I tested it, as I knew it will be false positive. ;)


If your mobile uses a dynamic IP the pool will be shared by others. In my country at least, Logs of client details to DHCP assigned IPs is Legally required.

Private torrents do not show up because I know what you download relies on DHT broadcasts.


This website shows a good 40 downloads from my IP, and I don't recognize a single one. I have torrented some files recently, but they're not in the list. And so far I've never used a VPN, it's unnecessary where I live.

Not very reliable.


Your ISP is certainly using CGNAT, or maybe IPv6, so multiple subscribers look to be using 1 IPv4.




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