Notice of DMCA received on TL...

[username-]

@ megabyteme thanks for the heads up. I don't really use the site enough to worry, but that torrent isn't exactly new.
I think I might just let my account die out. I was looking for something about a week ago with decent seeds and checked tl and ended up snatching 2 uploads not related.

[mjmacky]

I had gotten one of these letters in the past. They are good for scooping up cat vomit (or hairball) from a linoleum floor.

[anigav]

I had gotten one of these letters in the past. They are good for scooping up cat vomit (or hairball) from a linoleum floor.

How about wooden floor? do they work?

[mjmacky]

I have tile and wood now, but no DMCA letters.

[stoi]

Dont some unscrupulous clients ignore the DHT for private torrents, so if someone uses that on a private torrent, and its a well known release, your IP can come up seeding to a public tracker, even though you are nowhere near that tracker on your end.

So it doesnt mean TL have been infiltrated, it could be someone using a cheat client which ignores DHT and its not an exclusive torrent (IE Scene release thats all over). which could also say why you didnt get a tracker name in the notice.

Maybe anon can fill us in better on that, but i believe that is a possibility.

[absent_today]

Can the authorities also monitor private tracker data ?

[anon]

When downloading always try to download a torrent from the uploader only, or from the guy by the highest sharing ratio, by blocking every other IP

Isn't that too cumbersome?

I don't ever use one either. In fact I'm not even sure how to with rtorrent. Guess I should look into it though. But then again I pretty much only use bittorrent for music and usenet for everything else. Plus my TL account must have gotten disabled for inactivity(which it looks to be a good thing), so I'm not overly worried about it.

Apparently rTorrent has no built-in IP filter of its own. There's a patch available for version 0.8.9, however. Once again, letters are no problem where I live, but I've always used a filter and kept it updated. If certain IPs are known to be "bad", there's no sense in connecting to them, even if it carries no risk for me.

Dont some unscrupulous clients ignore the DHT for private torrents, so if someone uses that on a private torrent, and its a well known release, your IP can come up seeding to a public tracker, even though you are nowhere near that tracker on your end.

So it doesnt mean TL have been infiltrated, it could be someone using a cheat client which ignores DHT and its not an exclusive torrent (IE Scene release thats all over). which could also say why you didnt get a tracker name in the notice.

Maybe anon can fill us in better on that, but i believe that is a possibility.

It's possible given a particular set of conditions. The info_hash must be the same, but if TL's .torrent file manages to sneak out of the tracker (happens), that's a given. Now, if I am using a proper client it'll ignore all DHT and PEX messages pertaining to a torrent marked as private, but that doesn't mean I'm invulnerable: if I'm A, and two other peers using a DHT-patched client are B and C, C can't get a DHT/PEX reply from me and begin leeching, but he can get my IP from B and then connect to me. BT is no secure protocol and doesn't do checking of any sort, so the right combination is enough to begin transferring. It's been done (although that case in particular was a less automated way). Can be exceptionally successful with seedbox IPs and ports that do not change.

Can the authorities also monitor private tracker data ?

No, trackers with member counts on the hundreds of thousands are completely secure. The feds don't have the time and social skills to snatch an invite, so they turn to The Pirate Bay instead.

[merwais]

Or.... Maybe megabyteme's ISP is keeping eye on him.You never know

[mjmacky]

Or.... Maybe megabyteme's ISP is keeping eye on him.You never know

I'm sure I could think of 1024 reasons why Comcast doesn't give 2 shits about any of its customers.

[Raban]

yes of course... you would have to be an idiot to download any movie from TL... it's been known for a long time that site is infiltrated and being monitored.

if you want to download a movie use hdbits which has an exclusive userbase..... unlike TL which has what 300,000 users if not more. if it's not on hdbits then go to usenet where you know you won't be monitored.