The Intern is downloading movies again
Situation
Venezuela has a bandwidth problem, and by the nature of our culture, most people will try to take advantage of anything, especially internet.
What happens when you let tech savvy people with access to internet for 8hrs a day? I call it The Intern is downloading movies problem.
Solution
I Know What You Download is a monitoring tool that allows you to check if someone is downloading torrents. Here’s how to use it:
- Visit iknowwhatyoudownload.com.
- On the homepage, you’ll see your current external IP address.
- To investigate from an organization point of view you’ll see the following page indicating if there some torrent being download in your current IP (you can select or input different ones in case you aren’t sure)
For tracking other people
You can create a link and sent it. Works as long as it is clicked.
For tracking peers
If you have the .torrent file you can extract the peers and seeds from your torrent client (e.g., qBitTorrent).
- Copy selected peer or host (or all if you have time).
- Convert the host address using an IP lookup tool like ip-tracker.org or whois.domaintools.com if it’s not listed.
- Use iphub.info to determine whether the IP is a proxy or a residential one.
Note that VPN and proxy may give bad results as it is explain in the FAQ, but VPNs for torrents are usually paid and from an organization in Venezuela is extremely unlikely, as Fortinet-like solutions can block such traffic.
References
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