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Re:Iknowwhatyoudownload.com – Torrent Activity Checker by tambourine_man on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @07:36AM (#38176079)
Yes, but I’d bet your ISP is required by law to store what IP was given to what customer at any given time for a certain period.

In that sense, it’s just as bad privacy wise, just a better use of a finite resource.

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Re:Iknowwhatyoudownload.com – Torrent Activity Checker by jasode on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:17AM (#38176365)
>Yes, but I’d bet your ISP is required by law to store what IP was given to which customer at any given time for a certain period. In that sense, it’s just as bad privacy wise,

If the gp you're replying to is talking about CG-NAT[1] (which is common in India), the privacy leak is not the same.

With CG-NAT, a hundred homes simultaneously share the same public-facing IP address at the same time. That's different from Verizon or Comcast in the USA where each house has a different temporary public ip address rotating from a pool of ip addresses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

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Re:Iknowwhatyoudownload.com – Torrent Activity Checker by yencabulator on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:09AM (#38177623)
The ISP can still be required to keep a record all the NAT decisions.

But yeah, this thing shows other CGNAT consumers for me, with some questionable taste in books.

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