Downloading Torrent Anonymously

[TommyW]

Evening all,

 

some of you may have seen a programme on the BBC last night about the new legislation that may be coming in where the music industry can request ISP's send people who download music etc illegally letters of warning and potentially throttle their internet connection

 

on the programme they showed how easy it was for 'them' to get hold of your IP address when using bit torrent but mentioned there were ways to download anonymously (swapping IP addresses or something)

 

does anyone use anything they would recommend?

 

thanks,

 

T

[Allan]

Evening all,

 

some of you may have seen a programme on the BBC last night about the new legislation that may be coming in where the music industry can request ISP's send people who download music etc illegally letters of warning and potentially throttle their internet connection

 

on the programme they showed how easy it was for 'them' to get hold of your IP address when using bit torrent but mentioned there were ways to download anonymously (swapping IP addresses or something)

 

does anyone use anything they would recommend?

 

thanks,

 

T

 

I use TOR when I stream baseball via TV Ants. The streams I use can't be viewed here in the UK without using TOR.

 

Have a read on their site and see if this will help you out.

[TommyW]

that looks like it would do what they described on the programme, I'll do a bit of research, thanks

 

im not even a heavy downloader but didnt like the idea of my details being so easily obtained

[Allan]

that looks like it would do what they described on the programme, I'll do a bit of research, thanks

 

im not even a heavy downloader but didnt like the idea of my details being so easily obtained

 

It's all scaremongering, though it wouldn't surprise me if people did receive automated emails, even when they're not doing anything naughty.

 

Policing the net in this manner is one hell of a job, I don't think that MS are even capable of doing this properly, despite all the security patches they release to spy on folks, (allegedly....).

 

*turns around and looks over shoulder*

[TommyW]

I know what you mean, there's always one poor sod who get caught out and made an example of though, I wanted to get a bit clued up

 

cheers for the help

[Acid]

Isn't the only way they can get that sort of information if you sign up to a website like thebox.bz, or download a torrent specifically from them?

[TommyW]

They showed they can get your IP easily enough (you transfer it when you are downloading Peer to peer), they can then (if the new legislation goes through) supposedly ask your ISP to reveal your details and if you repeat offend potentially cut off your internet

 

as has been said above its probably pretty unlikely you'd get caught out but better to be wary I guess

[piscinin]

It's all scaremongering, though it wouldn't surprise me if people did receive automated emails, even when they're not doing anything naughty.

 

Policing the net in this manner is one hell of a job, I don't think that MS are even capable of doing this properly, despite all the security patches they release to spy on folks, (allegedly....).

 

*turns around and looks over shoulder*

 

It's actually very very easy to do and doesn't involve windows at all. All your traffic goes through your ISPs router and routers these days are smart enough to look inside the packets and work out what you are doing.

[RedKnight]

They'd have a hard time throttling what passes for broadband in my gaff.

[piscinin]

They'd have a hard time throttling what passes for broadband in my gaff.

 

Eh?

[Allan]

It's actually very very easy to do and doesn't involve windows at all. All your traffic goes through your ISPs router and routers these days are smart enough to look inside the packets and work out what you are doing.

 

This is very true. Though the routers will have difficulty viewing encrypted packets, I'm not aware of any routers with packet decryption capabilities, that's not to say there are none out there of course.

[Allan]

Eh?

 

Broadband speed is no good at the best of times....

[Allan]

This is very true. Though the routers will have difficulty viewing encrypted packets, I'm not aware of any routers with packet decryption capabilities, that's not to say there are none out there of course.

 

Forget that, just done some searching on Google, and it looks like Fujitsu have patents for packet encryption and packet decryption devices (routers), so if it's not already possible, it soon will be.

[jsjazz]

Use Peer Guardian (not perfect, but better than nothing) and update the blocklists from iblocklist.com.