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I tried it from my Verizon smart phone and it showed me 4 downloads that happened Thursday night/Friday morning at 1am. I definitely wasn't downloading Torrents on my phone last Thursday nor was I downloading porn while visiting my family? I also don't use the phone as a hotspot. I'm not sure how to take that?

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A pretty standard experience for any service which relies on IP and has mobile users. Presumably the constant connect/disconnect and changing map of devices makes dynamic IPs much simpler for mobile providers to use. You're also liable to find yourself banned from a website at some point, if they use IP ranges.

It was probably tracking the tower. I believe the towers use the same external IP for many internal mobile units that connect to it.

Dynamic IP. My IP is so heavily reused that there's hundreds of downloads, porn, tv shows, movies etc.

I wonder why it's so frequently porn? The ones displayed on my device all have "Bubble Butt" in the title somewhere plus extras so it's clear it's all porn. I mean, I know the internet is based on porn but is that really most of what people use BT for now adays? lol

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/US/daily from the fine link show it's about 80% movies and 10% porn.

Haha unintended advantage to this view, I now know that Flatliners came out! Oh. I must've missed it by a lot it doesn't seem to be in theaters anymore.

It was very poorly received. Probably explains light advertising and short theater runtime. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/flatliners_2017/

Damn it looked so good in the previews. I was really hoping it'd be good I really liked the original.

Shared IP pool for data users, I'd guess.

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