14 DAY TRIAL // A newly released Russian website makes sure that all the individuals who download from BitTorrent website are monitored, their identities, or at least their IP’s being published online for anyone to see, along with the actual files they have downloaded.
YouHaveDownloaded.com is a site that monitors 20% of all public downloads, immediately telling you if you are a downloader or not, and even if you’re found "not guilty," then you’re suspected of using a private torrent tracker.
Of course, you can check to see if other people have downloaded something and if you want to scare them, you can do so with a special feature offered by the site. Widgets for websites, blogs and even Facebook profiles are made available for customers.
Suren Ter, Ruslan K and Ilia R are the masterminds behind YouHaveDownloaded.com.
“I’m a producer of the site. Like a movie producer, I made the site. Ruslan is a visionary. He did the necessary research and invented the technical tricks. Ilia is a programmer. He does the code. You see those tables, html and widgets? He did it. Me? I don’t do code, I don’t do research, I don’t do design — I do sites,” Suren Ter says.
Many already started to question the efficiency of the website when it comes to precisely recording what users download, especially since in many cases ISP use dynamic IPs.
“We don't bother ourselves to separate dynamic IPs. The site is just for show. However we have time-stamps. 3.3.3.3 might be a dynamic IP - however it belonged to a certain person at 12:12am 12/12/2011. Besides DHT allows us to get a user's machine fingerprint.” Suren said in response to the dynamic IP issue.
While the site is all fun and games some big names of the media industry were already caught illegally downloading. Stay tuned to see exactly who the pirates are.