Most of the private torrent trackers I've used have had a similar requirement.
So you don't think there's a risk of that info being misused? It's hard for me to put aside my digital paranoia even though MaM has a good reputation. Idk, maybe I'll give it a go during next week's registration period
How could they misuse it? Actually asking because I'm borderline retarded and even after working in web development for over 6...7 years now I'm still not sure how exactly does the internet work. What can they do with a dynamic IP address? It comes randomly assigned from a local pool of addresses which contains a fuckload of them. Yeah they can see what country you're from and then what? They can't call the ISP and ask who was this address assigned to at that specific time. By this time tomorrow the same address could have been passed among 50 other people. I'm assuming dynamic because most ISPs issue dynamic ones by default, usually you need to specifically ask for a reserved address.
The ban would be against an already fake IP and common VPN addresses, that shit glows like the sun.It is absolutely worth registering for MaM. It has an unparalleled entertainment-to-download size ratio and is the easiest tracker to excel on. It's very easy to reach their invite forum, which branches you off to other nice trackers. I have hundreds of free-leech tokens for Kiwis who want to hit the ground running.
Logging the registration IP is universally constant among private trackers. This is to prevent users from registering accounts and selling them for cash elsewhere, to prevent account sharing (for-profit or otherwise), and to prevent banned users from simply respawning. Trackers typically allow VPN use after initial registration.
You can try subverting the IP check if you wish but at your peril. If you get caught, the tracker will record your ban and may share this information with other trackers they work with. If you have accounts on those other trackers that can be linked to the banned account, they will disable all your accounts in a larger ban wave.
I've never had issues registering and browsing with my real IP address, even after multiple long-distance relocations. It pays to be a good boy
They, being the government, can and do, and I doubt Comcast or whomever would resist an subpoena from a rightsholder organization against the user who uses hundreds of gbs up and down for a millisecond.
Thumb printing. Even though you can use a vpn after registration, whenever you access that account that was created unprotected they'll know who you are if they log your account activities.
How? How will they know who I am?
No, we're talking about torrent tracker administration. If the government seizes it and start going after each and every user then yes sure. But what can the people from the tracker find out about me from the random address the DHCP assigns to hundreds, if not thousands of people?
Because if they have ties to the government, or some form of government interest involved in them, then having your DHCP address and confirmed time does make you easily identifiable in a way that would easily stand in court.
Yeah that's what I thought. Of course if the glowniggers bust in the datacenter with a subpoena and start seizing records they'll know who I am. But I just don't see how someone's identity could leak through their IP address without having the court and government involved.
When you access a server there is a handshake that takes place where information is exchanged and logged. My original reply to you was thumb printing which is the digital fingerprint that you (IE your machine, IP, and other information) has been logged by the other server. These private tracker groups have those rules in place sure to prevent account retail and whatever else, however, the more malicious side is that when it is no longer convenient to protect user information and activities you're shit out of luck and your ISP may end business relationships with you. That's the double edged sword of entrusting an objective criminal organization. Most of these private tracker sites require you to log in and if you are logging into an account that you setup with your virgin information such as your home network that data will be permanently tracked to that account regardless of the use of a VPN after account setup.
I can't speak for these examples but for tubi at least you can use open video downloader. although a lot of these sites have started using more DRM where they used to have none so it's more of a pain in the ass than it used to be and that might be where those specific programs come in I haven't looked into it. Off Tubi I mainly download so bad they're good exploitation and cheap martial arts movies, or old cartoons I can't find anywhere else I used to like (Ace Ventura the show, the early 2000s transformers, etc) so with that type of shit I almost never come across DRM. The only show I ever got it with on there was the 03 Astro Boy anime. i used to get tons of other movies there too besides just cheap shit nobody cares about but the DRM started to become common and I gave up trying.
