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Duplicating a series of 1s and 0s was mastered early on in the computing world, no corporate-ethical law can change that.
If you are worried about letters pay for a Seedbox or VPN service for a few dollars per month, alternatively change your behaviour a bit to outsmart the bots.
If you know what your doing you can minimize your exposure for free by setting the number of global connections on uTorrent to ~10, force encryption and limit the upload rate (on popular stuff they're likely to honeypot). There is also that new privacy based torrent program Tribler (in beta so check to disable exit node) or Invite-only Aus Private Trackers.
Thanks. We've mostly put it behind us by now but my wife still goes "oomph" when someone mentions the whole thing. Happened just a few minutes ago and I regret bringing it up.
Part of the story is the fact that we had just gotten out first child and we were smack in the middle of diapers and all that when this shit hit us. It sucked, that's all I can say, really.
I wouldn't mind doing an casualAMA about it but I honestly doubt many would be interested. I also couldn't say anything about the technical details, which probably are the most interesting part of all this. I do feel it's quite unfair that unless you happen to find a lawyer who actually understands the technical side of it you are virtually unable to defend yourself.
Also the fact that according to the ruling of our case, everyone is liable for whatever happens with "their internet connection", no matter if it's done with their knowledge or not. That part is a bit scary, for all the obvious reasons.
Also not sure who I would be shilling for in this case, lol. Torrent all you want, just use a damn VPN, whatever you do. Tribler also looks interesting, at least for the occasional torrent but I wouldn't trust it 100%.
There are things called trackers and torrent clients.
Trackers:Places where people upload torrents to. They then mediate connections between peers. Examples are rarbg, extratorrent, openbittorent. Public trackers just index the torrents sometime after the trackers receive them. They are like TPB, Torentz, isohunt, and kickass.so.
Torrent clients:They are the program you run on your computer that connects to peers and downloads the file. Examples are: mutorrent(wtf i cant type the greek mu), vuze, transmission, leap. There are also alternatives to that such as zbigz, boxopus, an furk.net. They convert the torrent into http downloads. I use multiple trackers for torrenting. They are:kickass.so, demonoid.pw(Open signups today), yts.re, eztv.it, and isohunt.to.
As for clients, I used to use mutorrent but the newest version doesn't seem to be on some whitelists, so I'm staying with vuze for now.
Basically you should use a variety of torrent sites until Tribler is ready for use.
Finally, your friend is wrong because the current torrent clients don't search libraries, they just download and seed files. So use kickass.so and mutorrent as my suggestion.
Torrenting over Tor can get you deanonymized unless you know what you are doing. Also it puts stress on the network, the main download page for the Tor browser says not to do it. Just use a VPN.
You could also try this torrent client, which does onion routing, but doesn't use the Tor network.
https://www.tribler.org/StreamingExperiment/ looks cool, we should make some GUI and create live streaming service! We could use DHT as usernames and stuff!
Do not torrent over tor. It does not make you anonymous while using Bittorrent. If you would like to stay somewhat anonymous make use of tribler or use a vpn.
To some it up. It doesn’t make you anonymous It slows everything down on tor It makes you a dumbass It makes you an asshole
Because it doesn’t keep you anonymous, it slows down the entire network, and tools exist to do what you want without fucking over tor users who need to communicate anonymously in hostile countries.
p2p as in decentralized search in torrent swarms? No.
Remember that torrent swarms don't even have a decentralized way to search for torrents, let alone search contents inside torrents. I know that [Tribler](/r/Tribler) is working on P2P search for torrents but they've got a long way to go. Plus right now only Tribler supports that then only Tribler clients can do it, for torrents in Tribler.. You can read about it here if you want: https://www.tribler.org/ContentSearch/
Jesus Christ, 50 MB/s download speed. Lol.
Anonymity tip: The open source Tribler torrent client will add extra anonymity to your downloads by using Tor Onion style routing (slow).
You can setup Suricata or Snort on your Router (if it supports it) and block torrent traffic. This, however, is probably bypassable if your father uses a VPN though.
Alternatively, you can make your father use a VPN or https://www.tribler.org/
The free and easy solution is to just use Tribler, if you don't mind the slower speeds. Or use Tor if you are the DYI type. Whatever you do, don't depend on block lists or peerguardian to protect you - the most common noob mistake. Point being, always make sure you are behind something; and not exposing your real IP to avoid those ISP letters and any potential bans that could come from that.
If you're okay with slower speeds, I suggest using Tribler instead of VPNs.
And if you're set on using a VPN, then use one that's recommended by privacytools.
Torrents no longer require websites or trackers to work, and haven't for some time. Almost all clients have the option to enforce encryption between peers as well, so no one can see what is being shared.
Taking this even further is the Tribler project, which I highly recommend you check out.
See our encryption details for anonymity: https://www.tribler.org/anonymity.html
"Tribler offers anonymous downloading. Bittorrent is fast, but has no privacy. We do NOT use the normal Tor network, but created a dedicated Tor-like onion routing network exclusively for torrent downloading. Tribler follows the Tor wire protocol specification and hidden services spec quite closely, but is enhanced to need no central (directory) server." etc. etc.
Don’t be a dumbass and an asshole. It doesn’t make you anonymous when you torrent over tor.
Have a look at tribler instead at least it was designed for what you are trying to do and it actually works.
i found the pro version, so yes.
If you only need vpn for torrenting you could use Tribler https://www.tribler.org/
Or Tor for browsing (system wide with Tollow) https://www.reqrypt.org/tallow.html
Hey guys, what about this ?
https://torrentfreak.com/truly-decentralized-bittorrent-downloading-has-finally-arrived-101208/
Looks like a bittorrent client that has the search index built-in the peer to peer sharing, so no online search index like KAT or TPB is necessary ... O.o
I think you misunderstand how it works. While experimental, the latest version implements anonymous seeding through the Tribler network (https://www.tribler.org/anonymity.html). Therefore, if you ONLY seed through the Tribler network, then your IP address won't show up in swarms, because it's designed to be a darknet.
Bittorrent is encrypted end-to-end, unlike the http communication in Tor exit nodes. This means that even if you were an exit node it wouldn't be different than just being part of the network. Any immediate node you directly communicate with will always know your IP (it has to, for sending any message at all.. and this is true always for every onion routing algorithm), so if there was a legal basis to make you responsible from the encrypted traffic you proxy (there isn't, afaik) then it wouldn't matter if you act as an exit node or not... if that were true then neither Tor nor I2P nor any anonymizer would ever be "safe", even if there were no exit nodes.
Anonymity is only an option in Tribler. If you do not opt to use anonymity you will not contribute to it either. Just don't enable anonymity and Tribler will behave like a normal torrent client + the search functions (which were the ones the point was about)
The anonymity bit is actually still an experimental feature, released not too long ago. There are disclaimers over the place, and some Tor dev even pointed out some implementation changes that are still pending. I do not recommend using it unless you have really a reason for it. It will also make your download extremely slow.
It would be sad if the tribler database of channels to share torrents was dismissed just because of misconceptions and FUD targeted to a completely different and optional feature, and if instead we endorsed an awkward and proprietary technology.