| TPB...tracking? How exactly does TPB work as far as tracking? Can an individual ISP track who is using that site and turn info over to authorities? Just not sure if this is a good site for people to use (have never tried it nor do I know all the issues). Have more music than I would ever need but wondering what all the fuss is about and if those who are getting "caught" are using TPB or other direct download sites versus torrents.
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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| said by fishacura:How exactly does TPB work as far as tracking? Oversimplified, the tracker just keeps track of who all is connected in a swarm, who has what portions of a file, etc. In some cases, it also has the ability to control sharing ratios to prevent users from leeching content and not giving back a proportional amount to others of what they consumed.
There are trackerless torrents although they are much less efficient then a tracker-based system.
Can an individual ISP track who is using that site and turn info over to authorities? Technically yes, they can, but I haven't heard of any cases where an ISP has initiated the contact with authorities. For the most part, ISPs are concerned about one thing, themselves. They may try to protect their network by throttling or filtering torrent traffic, or they might answer to a legal suponea, They aren't going to care much about what you are transferring usually as they don't have the time or resources to commit to it.
Just not sure if this is a good site for people to use (have never tried it nor do I know all the issues). Have more music than I would ever need but wondering what all the fuss is about and if those who are getting "caught" are using TPB or other direct download sites versus torrents. Direct download sites still exist, but torrents are probably the most popular "public" method currently. A direct download site has a major downfall in that it requires X amount of bandwidth * Y clients to serve up the file. With bittorrent, as additional clients connect into a swarm and start downloading a file, they can start uploading pieces of the file to new clients, offloading the bandwidth from the original seeder. For a very large new file, the surge of people downloading all at once works in the torrents favor, as the available bandwidth increases. Some commercial games use torrents to release game updates or patches as there is often a huge demand initially but then later offering a conventional download when the initial demand subsides. |
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said by fishacura:How exactly does TPB work as far as tracking? Can an individual ISP track who is using that site and turn info over to authorities? Just not sure if this is a good site for people to use (have never tried it nor do I know all the issues). Have more music than I would ever need but wondering what all the fuss is about and if those who are getting "caught" are using TPB or other direct download sites versus torrents. Considering that TPB uses RAM disk... |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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kudos:12 | said by PapaMidnight:said by fishacura:How exactly does TPB work as far as tracking? Can an individual ISP track who is using that site and turn info over to authorities? Just not sure if this is a good site for people to use (have never tried it nor do I know all the issues). Have more music than I would ever need but wondering what all the fuss is about and if those who are getting "caught" are using TPB or other direct download sites versus torrents. Considering that TPB uses RAM disk... ::shrug::
Your ISP can still see that you downloaded My.Pirated.Movie.torrent and then proceeded to transmit X amount of data, or they could just join the swarm, verify you are a part of it and voila, DMCA notice. |
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