Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent

I've been file sharing on utorrent for years now, and never had any problems. Then yesterday a friend of mine came over and downloaded a movie for his girlfriend (Black Swan) and then everyone in my house got emails from our ISP telling us to cease copyright infringement.

I use utorrent to download TV shows because I don't have access to them any other way. My question is this: Now that I've received these letters, do I have to stop? Are they going to be watching me somehow, monitoring my IP address, or can I just steer clear of movie downloads from now on and be ok? I really want to be able to continue getting my favorite shows...

http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/4...nd-Other-Stuff

That link is interesting but i'm not sure it answered my question.

I'm asking specifically if my ISP (Time Warner) or the MPAA, or other anti-fileshare parties will be actively watching me from now on, now that I've received this warning letter, or if i'll be ok if I just stick to safe sites and small downloads.

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Originally Posted by RicAdbur

I'm asking specifically if my ISP (Time Warner) or the MPAA, or other anti-fileshare parties will be actively watching me from now on

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They won't be watching you any more than they "watch" the millions of Internet users from your country. Get a good IP filter, avoid public trackers and consider a Usenet or OCH subscription, both of which don't require you to upload.

Ok, thanks. I'll do that. Can you recommend a good IP filter? I found this article that says it can be done in uTorrent, but is there a better option?

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6443/ip...with_utorrent/

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Originally Posted by RicAdbur

Can you recommend a good IP filter?

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ed2k...es/uIpfilterX/

First one below the folders should be the newest one. Updates are released semi-regularly.

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I found this article that says it can be done in uTorrent, but is there a better option?

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If you're only using uTorrent, then there's nothing better than its built-in IP filtering capabilities.

Ok thanks.

Use peerblock

Or get a VPN.

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Originally Posted by Hiccup

Use peerblock

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Built-in ipfilter.dat support or P2PFire (if on XP or below) > PeerBlock.

Sadly, an IP filter is no guarantee against getting hit with a copyright notice. I've seen a lot of complaints from people over the years saying that they got caught despite using an IP blocker.

It's a great tool for blocking those malicious fake-data spewers that corrupt torrent downloads and waste a person's time and bandwidth, but I think that their usefulness as a "anonymization" tool on public torrents is only marginal at best. The anti-P2P enforcers have known about IP blocklists for years and taken steps to bypass them by constantly getting new address blocks to operate under -- even leasing servers in the same data centers used by major seedbox providers.

That's correct, zot. No IP filter is flawless, nor does using one make you invulnerable. However, as you also stated, using one is definitely better than going naked while torrenting, specially on public trackers.

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Originally Posted by zot

It's a great tool for blocking those malicious fake-data spewers that corrupt torrent downloads and waste a person's time and bandwidth

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That's pretty much what I use it for, even though in my country infringement letters and ISP notices aren't a problem (for now).

so if on win7 its not?

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

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Originally Posted by Hiccup

Use peerblock

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Built-in ipfilter.dat support or P2PFire (if on XP or below) > PeerBlock.

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That's only for P2PFire, which doesn't work on systems newer than XP.

uTorrent's built-in filter will work on any system it can run on.

i dont get it why does peerblock have 776,265,749 ip's blocked and ipfilter only 7012

http://postimage.org/image/10hkiwxfo/

Do i have the wrong ipfilter?

that number - 776,265,749 - covers roughly about a fourth of all IP v.4 addresses available.

I would guess that 7012 represents the number of IP ranges (rather than individual addresses) that are blocked.

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Originally Posted by Frankthetank1

i dont get it why does peerblock have 776,265,749 ip's blocked and ipfilter only 7012

http://postimage.org/image/10hkiwxfo/

Do i have the wrong ipfilter?

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Notepad shows the total amount of IPs blocked. uTorrent shows the amount of entries in the ipfilter.dat file, which isn't the same. A single entry could block the whole Internet.