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But six entities could not be identified because they were masked through third party hosting. Chothia’s crew found around 10 different monitoring entities, of which a few were identifiable as security companies, copyright firms, or other torrent researchers. What’s really mysterious is who all of the firms are. “Almost everyone that shares popular films and music illegally will be connected to by a monitor and will have their IP address logged,” Chothia told Paul Marks at New Scientist According to the team’s presentation, monitors were only regularly detected in Top 100 torrents, while monitoring of more obscure material was more spotty.
At SecureComm conference in Padua, Italy this week, the team announced that they found huge monitoring operations tracking downloaders that have been up and running for at least the entirety of their research.
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The team, led by security research Tom Chothia, ran software that acted like a BitTorrent client for three years and recorded all of the connections made to it. "A new study from Birmingham University in the U.K., found that people will likely be monitored within hours of downloading popular torrents by at least one of ten or more major monitoring firms.