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		lucasf on Dec 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent… Anyone have any idea how they collect the data (what IP is dowloading what torrent)?

jrockway on Dec 11, 2011 [–]

An integral part of the torrenting process is getting a list of IP addresses from the tracker so you can connect to each IP and start downloading the data. You can log those IP addresses to a database instead of downloading that data.

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