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I dont usually download, well much of anything. But I was curious, how do you protect yourself when using P2P networks like TPB and BitTorrent?

protect yourself from what? i use bittorrent and kickasstorrents for years. no issues.

i once downloaded 600gb in a month. comcast sent me a letter about excessive bandwidth usage but did not say a word about torrents or disconnection. just please stop sucking down so much bandwidth.

I use TPB and Bittorrent every so often, but not too much anymore. I tend to try and save up to buy software that I enjoy using.

LOL - i laugh at you    :D

Nah, assuming you're talking about protecting ourselves for the governments. Polls have shown that almost everybody torrents at some point, and obviously the government can't arrest the entire population of their country.  ::)

the government dont care and neither does law enforcement the only people who care are the companies who distribute the content

Government, viruses, spyware, anything. Is using a VPN or Tor common practice?

i dont even use virus protection never have a problem and since im a heavy user that says alot. if you download from limewire or BS sites you get viruses. KICKASS is the largest provider i only download from them the site is very clean. pick a torrent with the most seeds people dont seed viruses. your not buying drugs no need to be james bond about it just click download and enjoy one of the very few things in life that is truly free.

Dont use public torrent sites!  Private is the only way to go.
If someone wants an invite to IP Torrents, let me know and I can send you an invite for a small amount of BTC.

pay me for stuff you can get for free   :D

this is all you need dont let anybody tell you otherwise - have fun

http://www.utorrent.com/

http://kickass.to/browse/

Government:
- Use a fast, anonymous, P2P-friendly VPN. I'd recommend PIA.

Viruses, spyware:
- Don't be a retard. If you download an album and it contains a bunch of 10kb .mp3.exe files, don't run them.
- Unless you require windows-only software, consider switching to Linux. You will instantly be immune to 99.999% of malware.

I don't use the pirate bay, but when using BitTorrent its probably best to use a good VPN.

Tor should not really be used to try and download torrents (clogging an anonymity network is bad karma), but its OK for downloading the .torrent files.

You need Peerblock for P2P - even Bitcoin and Litecoin etc. (which is why I decided to post in this thread).

Peerblock - http://www.peerblock.com/

iblocklists - https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php

Most of the bluetack lists unfortunately have not been updated in a long time and are outdated and somewhat inaccurate.

The other I-Blocklists, TBG, CI Army and malc0de lists are updated currently. The best lists are subscription based.

I'd recommend deleting the default Peerblock lists and blocking 'Primary Threats' , 'Hijacked' , 'Malicious' (CI Army) , 'malc0de' and the other I-Blocklists.

Linux users can do the same with Peer Guardian (ex MoBlock).

i am using Bittorrent all time, and i didnt have any promblems at all. Once i downloaded 300 Gb in 3 days and my internet porviders called me and asked: did someone hack you?! LOL :D

Last downloader I used was Morpheus... Were talking 2000 or something.
So where is the place to go?

Anyone noticed decline in p2p piracy?

mininova dead, isohunt closed, less people seeding stuff every day, despite improved internet connections over the globe. And the worst part - less and less people are archiving old good stuff. If you need some older movie/game/etc, like from 1990, then your chances are thinning every day.

Proxy and VPN's are the usual methods of hiding Bittorrent activity.

but not with your internet providers

You can use a VPN but those can be slow.  Otherwise you're unlikely to get called out on it; I think our ISPs understand that their business is more important than Hollywood's.


The market adapted; it's more of a hassle to torrent now than it is to use Netflix (at least for Joe Average.)  If they do something like this for gaming, piracy will really plummet.

man that sucks

Naw; I'll pay $7 a month for unlimited gaming ;D

I guess you are right. But netflix is not available in all countries, and does not accept some payment options. And gaming? I thought steam = game netflix (kinda). Or you mean renting/sharing games? That would be crazy.

My original point of view is that culture is changing. We can only depend on people who keep tons of dvd's and blu-rays stacked in their cupboards. I personally tried to throw out as much of data I previously was keeping, and now I'm somewhat sorry.

EDIT: Oh, and GoodOldGames website -another gamenetflix, with awesome prices i guess

EDIT2: netflix is a monthly subscription service? I thought it's an on demand service - pay per certain viewing.

Oh, yes; you pay a flat fee of 7.50 a month (I think...) and you can watch all the movies you want.  Hulu might be a little cheaper, but it works the same way, except it has ads so I don't like it much.  I was going to mention Steam but the more I thought on it, the more I figured it was more of an online store than a monthly rental service; still, there's a plethora of indie games on Steam that are well within the normal budget, so I tend not to pirate those games, especially not while being an indie dev ;D  But the blu-ray/DVD thing is probably another factor that led to Netflix, or perhaps what sparked torrenting movies to start with (aside from insane box office prices), since it became a little bit much to buy a DVD for $15 just to watch it in a blue moon, you know?

But perhaps you bring up another good point; I'm positive there are still services around which you can buy digital copies of movies, but it's a pain to store all those movies, and then there's one-time rental services which are also rip-offs since you get the movie for a week and still had to pay quite a bit, it was still easier to torrent and store the movie, if only temporary.

What's really crazy is, I recall a service recently which allowed you to play popular games remotely, on really high-end PCs, and it transferred your mouse and keyboard movements over the web and sent back an image stream from the remote PC; it was a really neat idea, but if you don't have a fast connection, the delay is just too much to bear.

ha just had this talk with my mom.

you mean the riaa, an institution that is looking to protect the interests of a multi billion dollar industry? if money cares, then so does the government.

that is what SOPA is http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/223067-cispa-is-the-new-sopa

As long as you don't download obvious viruses you should be fine

why with national national ban?!

i didnt know that