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		hardik988 on June 1, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should... I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of P2P technologies of torrent and magnets, but is "snooping" possible with magnet downloads ? Like in the case of torrents, MPAA often hops on to a tracker, doesn't send/receive any data, but all it does is log the public IPs of all peers on the tracker. Is this a problem with magnet downloads as well ?

nddrylliog on June 1, 2012 | [–]

Definitely. See http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4055215.

Magnet links don't protect you, they're just a simple and standard way to refer to a torrent.

Thankfully, an IP address can't identify a person: http://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-cant-even-identify-a-stat...

larholm on June 1, 2012 | [–]

Magnet links are just a shortcut for getting the .torrent file, everything else still applies.

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