[sweeter]

Definitely a few. Media companies often send out infringement notices to ISPs to be forwarded to the user and I would guess this is how they get those IPs

[komali2]

When I moved out of my apartment I needed to transfer the Comcast account to my roommate. In the process of logging into their web dashboard for the first time since I'd started the service, I found out I had an @comcast.com type email address, apparently registered for me. The webmail UI indicated I had thousands of unread emails. I was curious what kind of spam gets sent to an email address that's so far as I'm aware never out on the internet anywhere, so popped it open.

Thousands of DMCA requests. Full filenames. Over the course of a year they had apparently notified Comcast of thousands of alleged violations, and nothing more than an email ever came of it.

Impossible to know which roommate was allegedly torrenting files of course. Or perhaps people visiting using our wifi. Who knows!

[mdaniel]

My understanding is that mere swarm membership is sufficient, no need to host anything

That's my understanding of why private trackers ban folks who upload private .torrent files to public trackers because the infohash is a rendezvous point of private and public consumers via DHT

[accrual]

It's kind of like walking into a room of people with full or partial copies of a copyrighted pie, but there's one person in the corner (the copyright holder or someone on their behalf) taking notes of everyone who comes and asks for a slice.

[neckro23]

No tracker necessary, you can just use DHT: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

[alex_duf]

Interestingly they put the infohash of the show in the URL. So one can use that website to pick which show to download just by using the hash + DHT

Edit: Nope I'm wrong, different type of hash it seems...

[edude03]

huh, weirdly it has stuff I did download and stuff I didn't download within minutes of each other ... should I be worried?