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...
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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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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
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.
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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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RicAdbur
Can you recommend a good IP filter?
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?
If you're only using uTorrent, then there's nothing better than its built-in IP filtering capabilities.
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Hiccup
Use peerblock
Built-in ipfilter.dat support or P2PFire (if on XP or below) > PeerBlock.