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RIAA IP Addresses Matched to Illegal BitTorrent Downloads

Users within the IP address range of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) might have a little bit of explaining to do related to public recordkeeping of their BitTorrent use. That's all thanks to the website YouHaveDownloaded, which tracks just that: The public fingerprints of approximately 20 percent of the world's BitTorrent traffic, listed out by all the recorded downloads that can be matched up to a particular IP address.