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Internet Providers To Crack Down On Pirates

So, hypothetically speaking, what's the best way to remain anonymous while still torrenting/dl'ing?

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If you download copyrighted material illegally, you might get a warning from your Internet service provider starting as soon as Monday. That's according to blogs covering file-sharing communities like Bit Torrent, where users share and download movies and music for free. The crackdown is led by big copyright holders like the Motion Picture Association of America.

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/25/172858...rd-in-business

They should seriously just stop..... And no I don't mean the people DLing

guess I should look into a proxy service

Proxy, or shared wifi.

Torrenting will never be anonymous, simply because of the way it works. Even behind a proxy server, it's still not anonymous by any stretch. Your IP is the connection point when using torrents, and there's no way to hide it when you're downloading and more importantly when you're seeding.

Newsgroups are the best way to go. But that requires payment.

Another option would be a service like Furk.net. It's sort of like a hybrid newsgroup/torrent solution. It will search torrent sites for files, and download them to Furk's giant server, which you can then directly download from Furk. That way Furk does the dangerous part getting the torrent files from other torrent sites. And all you have to do is privately download them from Furk, which is infinitely safer. In addition, Furk allows you to stream torrent files. So you could stream just about any video you want, movies, TV, whatever. Furk is about $6-7 a month. I've been a member for quite a while, and it's really awesome. I can't say enough about it.

torguard.net
hidemyass.com
btguard.com

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Originally Posted by Fish (Post 9436775)

VPN services.

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Originally Posted by Molitoth (Post 9436803)

torguard.net
hidemyass.com
btguard.com

Actually, hidemyass.com isn't all that safe. They keep log files for 30 days, and they recently gave them up when ordered to do so by a court. Link

I use IPVanish. They don't keep log files.

if the internet providers start in on it you really can't hide

they will also start losing business though

Use a VPN and they can still find who you are, but use SSL encryption and sue them if they try to read the packets.

newsgroups right now till psp is fixed/updated.

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Originally Posted by Molitoth (Post 9436808)

VPN services.

IPV6 opened up a huge security hole regarding VPN services that effectively makes them worthless with regards to torrent privacy...

http://torrentfreak.com/huge-securit...orrent-100617/

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The security risk is caused by a lethal combination of IPv6 and PPTP-based VPN services, which are very common. IPv6 is the Internet protocol that will succeed IPv4. The protocol is promoted by Windows 7 and Vista, among others, and most people are using it without even realizing it.

The technical details of the vulnerability, explained in this talk (see below), reveal that the true IP-address of users using IPv6 can be easily traced. Even worse, it seems that the Swedish Anti-piracy Bureau may already be using this flaw to gather data on ‘anonymous’ BitTorrent users.

The vulnerability is not limited to BitTorrent either. It can expose people who believe that they are hiding their real IP-address through nearly every connection.

In addition to this gaping hole in VPNs such as Ipredator and Relakks, the talk exposes several other weaknesses from a privacy point of view. Among other things, it is fairly easy to find MAC-addresses and computer names of people who use the same VPN.

I have 3 of my neighbor's wifi passwords, Im immune. Of course they dont know about it but if you're dumb enough to still be using WEP then I dont feel sorry for you.

They say this shit every 6 months.

I might look into IPVanish - is it the best one?