Someone asked me a few weeks ago if they downloaded something from a torrent if it could be tracked. Well it seems it can and if you want to see what your internet provider can see, go to http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/ and the landing page will tell you if you've been naughty or nice, Here is a snip of what it said when I went there.
The sight is a bit of a joke but there are some concerns that if they can do this, what else is going on? Take a look at their privacy policy-that's good advice on how to approach everything you do on the internet.
Privacy Policy
You're checking the privacy policy on a site like this? We'll do our best to make the policy entertaining.
For visitors
Baby, this is the Internet. There is no such a thing as privacy around here. You are sitting in the privacy of your own house, clicking links, reading stuff, watching movies — it seems like you are pretty much alone. But smart nerds are watching you. They watch your every move. You are not human to them. You are a target — a consumer. And, most importantly — a potential consumer!
This magic word opens a hunt on you.
You try to avoid the nerds radars by using proxy, VPN, anonymizers, maybe you even hook up to your neighbors WiFi because they left it open. Nerds know all those tricks. And this site is an example. Whatever you do on this site will be recorded. Whatever technical trick we can use — we’ll use it. I cannot promise you that we will use all of our tricks because that would be expensive. But any (legal) trick you can imagine — consider it being used on this site.
OK, don’t be scared. Torrent tracker is the only thing here. The site itself just shows what we have collected. It doesn’t do anything spooky — Or does it?
For copyright holders
Common! You are supposed to be a predator. Why did you click on the "Privacy Policy" link? Don’t you have the same on your website? Isn’t it full of lawyer language stuffed with technical terms to make sure nobody understands it? We do whatever you do... maybe more. We are nice guys so we’ll give it to you straight and simple. We set cookies on your browser; we drop third party cookies, LSO (that’s from flash), Silverlight, super cookies and so on.
Some days we’re too lazy for such stuff. We get tired of our huge database and erase all the records from it — but not today. Check out the page tomorrow. Maybe we’ll do it tomorrow.
Common! You are supposed to be a predator. Why did you click on the "Privacy Policy" link? Don’t you have the same on your website? Isn’t it full of lawyer language stuffed with technical terms to make sure nobody understands it? We do whatever you do
Posted by: medyum | January 08, 2012 at 01:00 PM