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nl on Dec 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Website reveals even your private IPs.

It seems to ignore fact most consumers are on dynamic IPs. That makes it worse than the RIAA's technique - at least they try and get an ISP to lookup who was using an IP at the time.

ranman on Dec 13, 2011 | [–]

While IPs are dynamic these guys do have timestamps so it does correspond to a particular computer at a particular time. You can also get addresses from DHTs...

Natsu on Dec 11, 2011 | [–]

Not to mention that some trackers, most notably the Pirate Bay, add fake peers to the swarm. Who knows who is getting falsely accused of what?

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