"To put the spying activity in perspective, the BitTorrent activity of these two anti-piracy companies is three times greater than that generated by all customers of a smaller ISP such as Sonic.net. It is comparable to the BitTorrent activity of all Comcast Business clients combined."
You can protect yourself from spying (as it is an invasion of privacy) with a VPN.
> You can protect yourself from spying (as it is an
> invasion of privacy) with a VPN.
The torrents are posted publicly. Each client is adding their own address to the list of participants, which is also public. Whenever I download a torrent, the list of other participants is available plainly in a tab in my torrent client.
If some client chooses to keep a record of public data, how is this in any way an invasion of privacy?
This is like complaining that your privacy has been invaded when someone takes a photo of a public street, and you happen to be in the frame.
If someone takes a photo of a public street and they happen to see me in the frame and don't do anything with it that's one thing. This is more like they are following me down the street taking photos of me just to report anything even slightly suspicious that I might do at some point.
You can protect yourself from spying (as it is an invasion of privacy) with a VPN.
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon...