Using the site and particularly the tool for contacting friends is not recommended by The Independent , given that it is not clear who the site is run by or what they are doing with the information being collected. The people behind the site appear to suggest that they are running it as a way of marketing their services to content owners and to police. When torrenting, people are both seeding or sending out and leeching or downloading content — all of that happens from other users in the network, and so those computers connect with each other.
If one computer wants to find out the identity of others sending or taking content from it then it can, and that appears to be happening on the new website. Similar tools are already used by the companies that own films, music and TV shows that are being torrented. There have regularly been reports of those companies pursuing people who have downloaded their content either for costs or to force them to stop using torrenting services, likely using the same tools.
In all cases, the downloads are only tied to IP addresses and not to specific people. That means that the site and services like it will only show whether someone has been on your internet connection, and not necessarily which computer did it or even that the computer was in a person's house. The site also makes clear that it might have limited records because people's IPs can change, and because one IP address might be assigned to a range of people.
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