It shows me as recently torrenting a ton of content that I've never even heard of, and definitely haven't done.
Either someone's poisoning the data at trackers (TPB used to do this?), or they're just making stuff up...
It’s kind of interesting how well these private, trust-based networks work. While there are some they get breached, based on my experience there are many that exist for decades and have thousands of strangers cooperating toward a common goal, in shared secret.
It gives me hope that humanity is largely “below the surface” of productive groups quietly meeting and doing stuff. And it’s not visible because they aren’t tweeting.
This gives me joy compared to the more visible alternative that the whole world is an idiot because idiots are constantly tweeting.
But frequently whatever is nearby can still be useful for selling ads or whatever so people get used to using it for everything.
Back in the olden days people would mock others who quoted a random twitterer who said “George Bush thinks xyz” but now that’s like half of all the news stories.
Clicking through on their site to the "IP List" for any of the entries it claims are associated with me, my address is not included there.
edit: and I've been the only user of this static IP for a decade at this point.
I'd say that's pretty conclusive?
Definitely dedicated just to me.
I share an IP with one person but the stuff showed (a dozen or so torrents) does not really check out: porn and genshin impact stuff (pretty common I guess), series in Korean and Russian, movies in Italian.
I live in France, and neighbouring IPs show a few movies or video games in French. I'll definitely double check my networks and Unifi controller for unexpected connection or torrenting. Parts of my network are less secured than others, but I pay close attention to the traffic...
They have a 'demo' command on their Help site to test it (that a bunch of people in the forum report doesn't work with v6, for years) might be worth double checking!
edit: it always shows random stuff every time this one comes up!
Adding fake entries from certain IP ranges would be quite funny, and a good example of the data not being trustworthy.
At least that's my theory.
There might also be something in how the data is collected and how Bittorrent works, so some else had this IP a few days back and there are still Bittorrent clients that are trying to connect and that might be what the site is seeing.
Bittorrent might also be much more popular than I expected, because almost every IP around mine seems to be torrenting something. But I think it's due to short leases on IPs because it seems unlikely to me that 8 out 10 is using Bittorrent.
Hopefully this is just false data and not my neighbours since I don't particularly want to know what porn they're downloading.