Quoted is the English version of the website Polonus posted!!! (Thanks for that Pol!)
It was created just a new online service that keeps track of everything you download from file sharing sites. This could mean trouble for tens of thousands of people who illegally download files Copyright (mainly music and movies).
Downloading from torrents? Beware, this site can you track
Downloading from torrents? Beware, this site can you track
Page: Youhavedownloaded.com, does exactly what its name suggests: it creates a huge database of millions of media files that have been downloaded by tens of millions of numbers, Internet Protocol [IP], from which the files were made available to web sites and services such as BitTorrent. When you visit this site, it automatically scans IP addresses and indicate which files you’ve downloaded.
So far Youhavedownloaded has a database of about 52,286,000 users and 110,800 torrents made up of 1,918,000 individual files. On the home page you can within seconds see a small sample of what married Internet users, including the movie “Spy Kids 4,” “The Walking Dead” and the fourth season of “Sons of Anarchy”.
The site has been built as a proof-of-concept. One of the founders Suren Ter-Saakov, based on studies of a well-known researcher Brian Krebs. This site does not analyze the data using a dynamic IP, which may vary and can be used to hide online activities. The site and servers are also not store any timestamps or other personal information.
- Despite the many constraints and completely “innocent” nature of Youhavedownloaded.com, still has the ability to scare or embarrass a lot of people before you start downloading pirated material - says Lukasz Nowatkowski, Expert. IT security company G Data.
Ter-Saakov said he received an email from one of the surfers, who asked that his IP information has been removed, because it pulled pornography and he was afraid that his parents know about it.
This page outside Gauge “guilty” also draws attention to how the Internet can be a dangerous trade information that can be obtained on the basis of the user’s IP. Such carelessness very conducive to the spread of malware.
Aside from the mere fact of ethical downloading copyrighted material if you use pages that allow you to exchange files, remember to keep all the necessary precautions. You have no guarantee that the songs you want to download, are exactly what they claim.
- Check whether your computer is equipped with anti-virus software, allowing to reliably protect your data. Also remember to run a scan all downloaded files - summarizes the expert G Data software.
So… Say, I were to get an Uber, who has your IP address (I don’t, nor do I care!) and had them scan it through, what would I find? (@bijonster)
Więc … Powiedz, miałbym dostać Uber , który ma adres IP ( nie mam , ani mnie to obchodzi !) I miał je zeskanować go przez , co chciałbym znaleźć? ( bijonster )
(I assume you both also have this extension installed?) wonder if it’s a false-positive or if they are actually doing something fishy…