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This service is BS. I just went there and it gave me a random torrent, "Jennifer Lopez Papi" (or something like that). I wouldn't get anything of JLo's, even if they gave it to me free.

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Somebody did from the IP address you seem to be using.

Either you are behind a masquerading NAT, or perhaps your ISP rotates IP addresses and somebody else was using your address the other day, or just maybe your WiFi router isn't as secure as you hoped, or...

The service neatly highlights the caveats of matching people to IP addresses.

I have a static IP, and I'm pretty sure that no-one at my home has downloaded the tv episode this service mentions. It's of course not entirely impossible that someone has hacked my wifi router, but I think that is less probable than it is for some random web service to show some made-up data.

Some trackers inject fake peers.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tricks-anti-pirates-...

No, they definitely have bugs. I have a static IP, not shared with anyone, and it has a single bogus entry for me too.

Widely used public trackers inject random ips as peers to provide plausible deniability against this sort of tracking.

It said something wrong for me too. Something about "Magneto", presumably a comic book or something. I know who lives on my street, and I doubt any of them are the hack-the-neighbor's-router types.

It also didn't mention things I have pirated off of public trackers, so, meh.

Someone can just park in your street and steal your internet. Just saying!

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