If you are under impression that no one has any decent knowledge about what you have been downloading through torrents lately, you are highly mistaken about the fact.
Lot of people among us have a very different delusion about internet privacy. Back in my college days, I used to hear guys chatting with girls on mIRC and telling them fake stories about their millionaire status and bank balances while using fake usernames and thought they were anonymous to everyone. Even if any girl believed upon those stories and finally decided to continue to the relationship in real world, the boy never used to meet her due to his original personality and condition against the one he had portrayed. Main theme was to remain anonymous and keep the privacy.
But today's internet is changing the world as wee see it. This post is not about mIRC chatting, but it is about BitTorrent enjoyment.
As users, we were exposed to peer to peer networking through torrents quite some while ago. And now torrents have become a major source of downloading videos, music, pirated software from internet. Everyone using those sites assumes that he/she is quite anonymous and enjoying the privacy he/she demands.
However, recently a Russian website YouHaveDownloaded.com has displayed the records of couple of thousands of internet addresses and the titles that have been downloaded from those addresses. That really blows off any fantasies regarding torrent privacy.
Although some wise people may argue that almost all of the current ISPs assign dynamic IP addresses to their clients in today's world and so there is very low probability of being traced through IP (internet addresses).
But consider a scenario in which you were being hunted by government guys for downloading an illegitimate pirated video or audio track from any torrent. In order to get you, authorities would not have to do much. They would simply get your IP and timestamp of download and would ask your ISP to get information about that IP - say at 05:30 AM, 10th of December, 2011. And your ISP would digg up their records finding that it was you who was actually downloading that torrent and using that IP at the given time frame.
Case Closed!!
As simple as it can be.
Fact of the matter is that internet is not a place to stay anonymous and private. Everything you do is monitored/recorded. Therefore, my suggestion is to stay away from trouble and do not do anything stupid when you have no technical clue about what is happening on the back end.
Lot of people among us have a very different delusion about internet privacy. Back in my college days, I used to hear guys chatting with girls on mIRC and telling them fake stories about their millionaire status and bank balances while using fake usernames and thought they were anonymous to everyone. Even if any girl believed upon those stories and finally decided to continue to the relationship in real world, the boy never used to meet her due to his original personality and condition against the one he had portrayed. Main theme was to remain anonymous and keep the privacy.
But today's internet is changing the world as wee see it. This post is not about mIRC chatting, but it is about BitTorrent enjoyment.
As users, we were exposed to peer to peer networking through torrents quite some while ago. And now torrents have become a major source of downloading videos, music, pirated software from internet. Everyone using those sites assumes that he/she is quite anonymous and enjoying the privacy he/she demands.
However, recently a Russian website YouHaveDownloaded.com has displayed the records of couple of thousands of internet addresses and the titles that have been downloaded from those addresses. That really blows off any fantasies regarding torrent privacy.
Although some wise people may argue that almost all of the current ISPs assign dynamic IP addresses to their clients in today's world and so there is very low probability of being traced through IP (internet addresses).
But consider a scenario in which you were being hunted by government guys for downloading an illegitimate pirated video or audio track from any torrent. In order to get you, authorities would not have to do much. They would simply get your IP and timestamp of download and would ask your ISP to get information about that IP - say at 05:30 AM, 10th of December, 2011. And your ISP would digg up their records finding that it was you who was actually downloading that torrent and using that IP at the given time frame.
Case Closed!!
As simple as it can be.
Fact of the matter is that internet is not a place to stay anonymous and private. Everything you do is monitored/recorded. Therefore, my suggestion is to stay away from trouble and do not do anything stupid when you have no technical clue about what is happening on the back end.
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