Owners
of a new website claim to know every thing you and your friends have ever
downloaded. “I Know What You Download“ gathers information from across the
internet to find out what people are downloading.
It knows everything, including your IP address. This tool can reveal IP
addresses of anyone who has downloaded songs, movies, or anything on the
BitTorrent without using VPN (Virtual Private Network), proxy or seedbox for
public viewing.
In addition, it also offers a spy tool where you can see what your
friends are down loading, without knowing their IP address. If your friend
clicks on the hyperlink of a file-sharing site via SMS, then their alleged
download history shows up immediately, without the IP address being exposed.
However, it is unclear who the site is run by or what they are doing
with the information being collected. The people behind the site said that they
were running it as a way of marketing their services to content owners and
police.
The site can also find out who is downloading a certain content and help
protect that same content as well as other services, like finding users who
share child pornography . So, how does the service work? While torrenting,
people seed or send out and leech or download content -all of which happens
from other users in the network, and so those computers connect with each
other. Thus, a computer can then easily find out the identity of others who are
sending or taking content from it and that is what happening on the new
website.
Similar tools are already being used by film, music, TV companies to
prevent their shows from being torrented.There have been reports of these firms
pursuing people who have downloaded their content either for costs or to force
them to stop illegal downloads.
However, downloads from torrents are only tied to IP addresses and not
to specific people. This means that the site will only show whether someone has
been on your internet connection, and not necessarily which computer did it or
even if the computer was in a person's house. However, the site claims to have
limited records as people's IP can change and one address may be assigned to a
range of people.
Source: TIMES OF INDIA - 2nd January,2017
