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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249578

TorrentFreak story: https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bitto...

Interesting quote: "The company informed us that the site helps to showcase their abilities to the various outfits they work with, including copyright holders.

“We’ve set up the site for promotional purposes and as a demonstration of our capabilities,” Marketing director Andrey Rogov says.

“We are engaged in the distribution of information relating to torrent downloading activity to rightsholders, advertising platforms, law-enforcement and international organizations.”

The company offers API access to its data for interested parties and can also provide TCP dumps as extra proof that downloaded content is linked to a certain IP-address."



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