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Hello

Do you know that some website list your torrents if someone enter your IP address ?
How is this possible ?
Where does it leak ?

I mean just think about it.
Whenever you start a torrent and get the info from the tracker / other peers, you get everyone's IP address.
That's how.

You can write a simple program that just connects to most torrents, grabs all the peer data, and saves it into a database.
Takes like 2 seconds to grab thousands of peers.

That's what big firms do, the ones that send out these warnings/fines.

Thanks, ok, but how is this possible for private torrents ?

I mean you can join a private tracker, grab all the peers and that's it. Same process, 0 hassle, 0 work.