Is your neighbour a pirate?

Thankfully, in terms of privacy – thats a question we don’t need to answer – but this new service that The Pirate Bay now offers at least gives us a glimpse into what countries do have a large group of pirates. Sure – the map only show some part of the truth, but still – it does give an idea on how the current situation is today. Due to the techincal fact that a client only connect to a tracker every 15-20 minutes, then it’s not possible to get it 100% accurate. This service however, is nothing compared to what Nexicon Inc. has developed and is currently implementing in the United States.

• News article about The Pirate Bay Map Tracker in VG.no (norwegian)
• News article about The Pirate Bay Map Tracker in ItAvisen.no (norwegian)
• News article about Nexicon in IDG.no (norwegian)

First of all, let me apologize for the bad quality of these screenshots, as you might understand it’s not that easy to find sources on the internet with screenshots taken from this system. The system is designed to monitor a big range of different p2p networks as well as webpages around the globe – and it then tracks the IP of the user that does the downloading/uploading, and creates rather impressive reports and pin-points the activity directly to a map. As you can see from the screenshots, they then are able to determine your address, your ISP, what you are downloading and when you did this. From a programmers perspective it’s quite a nifty and well-done system, and it would have been nice to see this in live action.

Links:

• The Pirate Bay – Map tracker
• Nexicon Inc.