ISPs providing addresses of p2p users to the IRMA? (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

Myth...... BUSTED

ha, well, depends on the myth

Windows 10 privacy paranoia leads to ban from private pirate torrent trackers | Ars Technica

Again, the concerns around Windows 10's privacy impact appear to be tremendously overblown. There is the kernel of legitimate concern: Windows 10 collects a lot of data, and it's not as easy as we'd like to disable this collection. Windows 10 also seems to communicate with Microsoft even when configured for maximum privacy and minimal online integration. There are also reasonable concerns about what precisely is sent to Microsoft.

But these concerns are not "Microsoft is capturing the contents of your disks." They're more subtle; they're things like, "some requests are sent with a unique identifier, which would allow some searches and other online activity to be correlated." The inferences that can be drawn are not entirely precise, and there are concerns that they might be used for things such as targeted advertising—with, for example, the operating system using local search terms to influence Web ads—blurring the lines between "local" and "online" in a way that leaves some people uncomfortable.

 

[ilovehoovering]

just read this today. the story in The Sunday Times yesterday about the same sites states that -

According to an analysis by Incopro, a British firm specialising in tackling copyright infringement hired by the MPA, the three sites were accessed 3.39m times last October by internet users based in Ireland.

Onwatchseries, which specialises in providing free TV box sets, including Game of Thrones, was visited 1.93m times. Primewire had 1.26m visits in the month, while 200,000 visits to Movie4k domains were detected.

3.39m visits in a month from Irish internet users. That sounds like a ridiculous figure to me anyway but maybe I'm just being thick and everyone uses those sites.

Anyway, I'd never heard of them but will certainly be checking them out shortly. Haven't watched a pirated film is ages.

 

[Cormcolash]

I stream shit online all the time and have never been near any of those sites. Various iterations of project free TV forever!

 

[Lili Marlene]

I think they're some of the ones used in Kodi. Considering my dad showed me how that works i'd say it's quite possible.

 

[hermie]

I think they're some of the ones used in Kodi. Considering my dad showed me how that works i'd say it's quite possible.

Yeah my old man uses Kodi as well and he's a real technophobe. Even if fewer than 100K people have dodgy boxes but they watch 50 shows a month it could be close to that number.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Is it not more likely that they pulled these numbers out of their arses like they did with the Aslan album a few years back

 

[Unknown Convict]

they pulled these numbers out of their arses like they did with the Aslan album

ironically