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Old 09-16-2010, 02:48 PM  
Nathan
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Originally Posted by Alky View Post
so if you aren't sharing it, then how do you know who is actually downloading? i don't claim to know a ton about torrents, but it seems to me you could connect to the tracker and not upload/download anything.

is that illegal?
that's basically how they do it, collect ip addresses via checking trackers and the seeders/uploaders.
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