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eli on Dec 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent…

It depends what you're tying to guard yourself against. It's not like Amazon isn't keeping track of who owned that IP at that time.

pyre on Dec 10, 2011 [–]

I guess it would protect you against someone being able to tie all your torrent downloads to a single IP and/or person without a significant amount of effort.

In general, it only takes a lawsuit over one torrent to ruin you though.

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