BitTorrent Monitoring As a Work of Art

Monitoring, not just on BitTorrent but on the Internet in general, is a very hot topic. If thousands of news articles are to be believed, we are lurching ever closer to an online world where routine surveillance is common place, where privacy is thrown aside and the interests of governments and corporations trump the rights of the individual.

So, when we reported on the Meningrey website last week, a web location which seemed to destroy the privacy of BitTorrent users and perpetuated the paranoid climate we find ourselves in these days, it was no surprise that some were terrified at the implications.

TorrentFreak was first tipped off about the site by an anonymous reader, which is nothing new as this happens just about every day. After looking at the site and carrying out some tests on the alleged monitoring system, it was clear that all was not as it seemed. So we started looking a little deeper.