How can I manually get torrents list from a DHT peer? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Bear_with_a_hammer@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Most of you are familiar with iknowwhatyoudownload, the site in which by knowing someone's IP address you can see what were they downloading. Unfortunately it only shows torrents which were added to its database.

I have a peer with static IP address, is there any tools to extract what he/she was downloading?

I wanna do it for good purposes, the peer has very valuable files I want to help being seeded, but unfortunately it is the original creator which decided to delete some of them, because their size is too big (200gb+), I want to track his activity, so maybe he could leave a comment in a tracker where I could contact him.

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a peer with static IP address, is there any tools to extract what he/she was downloading?

Not directly, that's not how the bittorrent protocol works.

That website you reference doesn't work the way you are thinking it would work, it does not examine an IP address & then somehow figure out what it is downloading (this is impossible). That website does exactly what every other copyright troll service would do, they monitor specified torrents, load them in their own torrent software, save all the current peer IP addresses associated with that torrent, then they claim you were downloading that.

So with just an IP address no you could not do anything like that. You'd need to scour the internet for as many torrents as possible, load all the current peer IPs into a massive database, then you can search the IP address in your database & see what comes up. In other words you need to know the torrent(s) before you know the peer IP addresses.