How do you protect your right to piracy?
J. M. Pescado:
Satellite internet is entirely serviceable for non-latency-sensitive operations, like Torrentry. It is a supplement to, not a substitute for, real Internets.
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Quote from: Lonesome Dove on 2009 June 11, 01:18:15
How do you change your IP? The only way I know is to use Tor and from what I understand that's frowned upon because it hogs the available resources. Correct me if I'm wrong. Like you wouldn't.
I normally only torrent pretty obscure stuff, ebooks and old music, stuff like that. But I torrented Sims 3 because I wanted to see if it was the POS people are saying it is before I plunked down cash for it. I seeded for a while but got nervous and shut it off. I hate being a leech but I can't afford to pay for privacy service. I do continue to seed the other torrents I've downloaded as I doubt they'll draw any interest from the powers that be. Maybe I'm wrong there, too.
One other question: The notice rosenshyne got says she can reactivate her connection once she's removed the M&G file from her computer. How can they tell whether she did or not, unless she resumed that specific torrent? Is Big Brother that big?
You can unplug your modem and wait a few minutes if you have DSL. If you have cable, It's not as easy. Try googling for more info about your modem or ISP and see if it's possible and how to do it. It's really not going to make much a difference if you do switch your IP, they keep records of who has what IP. If you've been caught, it's already too late.
As far as rosenshyne's notice, I highly doubt big brother is scanning her PC. They likely had bots out downloading torrents and picking up the IPs then just routing the IP to that page when they busted her. They will know if she didn't delete it if the bot finds her same IP seeding again.
Lonesome Dove:
Thanks for the response.
I do have cable and I know my IP is static. When I first started looking into torrents I searched for ways to stay anonymous and that's how I found out about Tor. The info I got said that you shouldn't use Tor for torrenting, though (sounds odd when you put it that way, doesn't it? You'd think something called Tor would be made for Tor-renting.) and that if too many people did it, they might even shut it down. I'm not geek enough to know how or why, it's just what I read. Every other method I found requires payment, except Peer Guardian, which I read everywhere is a worthless POS. Pescado thinks so, too, and that's the final word as far as I'm concerned. If you know of an effective anonymizer that's free please let me know!
I haven't been caught but I guess everybody who torrents worries about it. I avoid really popular stuff and recent releases. Most of that doesn't appeal to me anyway. As I said, I risked downloading Sims 3 because there's so much negative buzz about it and for me it's a lot of money to throw down for something I might not like and can't return.
Crash:
Step one is, as everyone here has already informed you, getting a better ISP. Secondly you have to make sure you make it hard for the ISP find out what you are doing, since they automatically monitor certain types of traffic. If you're not already using a torrent client that has protocol encryption and tunneling options, you should switch to one that has it - it is also good for the ISP's that are throttling torrent traffic.To let you seed for longer times, you can change the seeding options in your client.
As for further security when torrenting, a secure VPN service is the best (unless you have other connections) - they are usually not pricey and more and more is popping up. The load times get slower, but nobody will know what you are doing.
Tor is not to be recommended - torrenting over the Tor network is very slow (slower than a vpn) and the network isn't designed for that kind of traffic - you might even piss some people of by using it for torrents.
Nimrod:
Wow. I can't believe so many of you are so n00bish when it comes the arring. SHEESH. Step one would be get rid of all your P2P junkware and ARRR for real. In fact, the only necessarry step is for you to leech from files that are, usually, readily available from the original, tried and true servers of speech and share. NEWS SERVERS, ya bunch o' dorks. And to make things much easier, if you're like me and not invited to join newzbin, search for Usenet Explorer. You must PAY for the program, mainly because it uses its own indexing server and hackers can't crack that with lasting success. The program is well worth the costs, I've paid for it twice (18 month license) and it save tons of time by avoiding the task of downloading headers and sifting through them to find what you're wanting. Actually, it's much like yer junkware only not as pretty and a little more complicated. In addition, if your ISP doesn't provide good news service with high retention (mine leases access from giganews, which is about as good as it gets, plus I use Usenet-news.net as a backup) then you'll need to pay for usenet access from a third-party. If you want to avoid a monthly payment and download less than 10GB per month, you can buy datablocks from Usenet-news.net that do not expire.
SO, to sum up, a very small investment will help you avoid yer stupidz P2P woes. Oh, and if your arring isn't worth, say, $20 usd per month for a quality news services, then I don't know what to think. I guess that's why stupid P2P and websites have such success preying on yer stupidz cheap azzez. Oh yeah, and arring is intended to be TRIALWARE. If you enjoy something after testdriving it, you should buy the damn thing and if you don't pay the dues, then I think you have no voice to criticize and should shut the fuck up with yer whining. Get real, in a small, hickville southeast US town, I just spent $47.xx on a dinner meal for TWO. In contrast, $49.99 for a game that I've had weeks of fun with. Hmmm. How can anyone not see the entertainment's worth in that small fee? Huh? Some of you people baffle me, just how fuckin' cheap are yoU?
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