Got Caught Downloading! How? Zonealarm?

[AnonXO]

With a good proxy. You should not lose more than 10% of your speed. If that. Secondly you can still usee a pop-up blocker with AnonX and other VPN style proxies. They aren't free Bandwidth still cost money


--AnonX

[tracydani]

You need to decide what is more important to you. Speed or security. Then everything just sort of falls in place. You either are willing to pay anonx or you are willing to (potentially) pay the mpaa/riaa.

There are other advantages to using a proxy. For example, I joined a movie download site(pay version) that is only available in the states. Whenever I try to view the site, I get a friendly "thanks for your interest, but we are not available in your area" screen. But when going through my proxy, I can surf all over the site.

TD

[longboneslinger]

Just remember kiddies, they are looking at bandwidth.If you come up on hte high end, and they spend a lot of money to figure out where the 'highend' is, they'll still start shit. Encrypted or not, the bandwidth usage is what is important (So they say B) ) to them.

I actually got a call from my ISP asking if I was running a server from my home. It's against the rules. I asked what prompted this question. I was told that "We monitor bandwidth usage to insure proper distribution (Whatever that means) to our customers." I replied "No, no server. And before you ask, I am not violating any contract rules by my downloads. So, it's none of your damn business what I'm doing. So fuck you very much and have a nice day!" I hung up in his face. Ripping down several Gigs a week, no calls.

Tell'em where to get off and they usually will.

BoNe

[nsane]

Originally posted by longboneslinger@12 July 2004 - 19:17
No, no server. And before you ask, I am not violating any contract rules by my downloads. So, it's none of your damn business what I'm doing. So fuck you very much and have a nice day!"

[Switeck]

Originally posted by javelinmansst+15 June 2004 - 19:15--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (javelinmansst &#064; 15 June 2004 - 19:15)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> they told me i could get the name of the person or group that informed on me&nbsp; if i filled out some consent form .
basically -they said if i give them complete access to my harddrive and let them give my name and address to local authorities-they would give me info on who turned me in.
their argument is that if im not guilty of anything then i shouldnt worry about filling out the form. [/b]

If there&#39;s scammers and identity thieves threatening to have your internet connection cut off if you don&#39;t give them your name, location, and whatever else private info they want to know about you...

Replying to the email is almost certainly how they tie your ip to YOU, so doing so is considered unwise...

Instead complain to your ISP that such harrassment, especially sponsored by your ISP, is considered a violation or 2 of several privacy laws.<!--QuoteBegin-Bishtawiman@11 July 2004 - 22:28
So even with a hardware firewall (router) and a software firewall (zonealarm) and IP blocker (Protowall) people are still getting caught? DAMNIT&#33;&#33;&#33; Freaken ComCast and AT&T&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; People are paying for their service and they turn around and stab them in the back..... freaken morons. Like they dont download stuff....

Does anyone know if people got caught using SBC Yahoo DSL?[/quote]
The original poster thought routers and Zone Alarm would reduce BSA/MPAA/RIAA&#39;s ability to monitor you, but made NO mention of IP blockers such as Peer Guardian or Protowall.

But unless you set your firewall programs to SPECIFICALLY BLOCK ip address ranges... routers and Zone Alarm has basically ZERO ability to HIDE you from their monitoring.

Your ISP may monitor traffic AMOUNTS, but they cannot legally monitor traffic specifics without violating wiretap/privacy laws... unfortunately the PATRIOT ACT following Sept 11,2001 weakened the privacy laws on that.

The ones monitoring for copyright violations (AKA:&#39;copyright cops&#39 AREN&#39;T ISPs&#33;

They&#39;re businesses dedicated to that purpose what are being paid megabucks by various companies (Microsoft, McAfee, Norton, Adobe, RIAA, MPAA) wishing for strict enforcement of their copyrights. They have dedicated servers and ip ranges for this purpose and also SOME connections that are either using regular &#39;home user&#39; broadband connections on dynamic ip addresses and/or proxies to hide their real ip addresses.

An IP blocker (Protowall) would block most but not all of their activities.

Comcast is just a bigger TARGET for these groups because it holds a huge number of broadband users... or as MPAA and RIAA like to call them digital thieves who should all be in jail.

Being on a smaller ISP may offer a tiny amount of extra protection, IF their legal departments handle copyright violation cases better... but have virtually NO effect on making your ip address harder to find&#33;

[mstanfa]

Just to let you guys know if you already have not heard. The film industry is now seeding or baiting the file sharing networks with tagged files that report back when played. They are also maintaining their own systems that have the files set to share which is the more likely way that they found out you have the file. The articles were posted on yahoo and one point and on movie web. Taking the file off of your system or taking the system that you are going to watch movies on off your home network / internet by physically unplugging it while you watch the movie will prevent them from knowing you have it. You can also copy the movie to another format (like mpg to avi or which ever) and that should remove the tags from the file.

You could also try blocking the outgoing IP and ports so they cannot see what you are doing.

Mind you these are just guesses based on my experiences and things I have read and heard from friends so you can take it for what it is worth. I can tell you that nearly 20% of all of the porn files are tagged so they can trace who has them and get email addresses and such. They plant the files and see where the files report back from whan played.

Take care

MAZ

[Arm]

Goddamn, AnonXO is like Derek Smart. You say his name and he&#39;ll appear.

[NightStalker]

Originally posted by mstanfa@13 July 2004 - 12:02
Just to let you guys know if you already have not heard. The film industry is now seeding or baiting the file sharing networks with tagged files that report back when played. They are also maintaining their own systems that have the files set to share which is the more likely way that they found out you have the file. The articles were posted on yahoo and one point and on movie web. Taking the file off of your system or taking the system that you are going to watch movies on off your home network / internet by physically unplugging it while you watch the movie will prevent them from knowing you have it. You can also copy the movie to another format (like mpg to avi or which ever) and that should remove the tags from the file.

You could also try blocking the outgoing IP and ports so they cannot see what you are doing.

Mind you these are just guesses based on my experiences and things I have read and heard from friends so you can take it for what it is worth. I can tell you that nearly 20% of all of the porn files are tagged so they can trace who has them and get email addresses and such. They plant the files and see where the files report back from whan played.

Take care

MAZ

Or get a firewall?

[Switeck]

Originally posted by mstanfa@13 July 2004 - 12:02
The film industry is now seeding or baiting the file sharing networks with tagged files that report back when played.
...
You can also copy the movie to another format (like mpg to avi or which ever) and that should remove the tags from the file.

Tagging = &#39;phone home&#39; capabilities.

From my experience, the ONLY video media types with phone-home capabilities are Microsoft&#39;s ASF and WMV formats. Although a file may be one of these types its filename may be intentionally misnamed as .AVI or .MPG, so only downloading those types offers ZERO protection. I&#39;ve seen this alot with Dragon Ball Z episodes.

However opening these files in raw byte format (probably using a HEX editor) will show the file headers in it which are dead giveaways for the filetype and structure. .MPG files look like random garbage or lots of long, repeating patterns. .AVI files at their beginning and end are very organized -- some of which is readable.

.ASF and .WMV files look almost identical to each other, with both randomness but words mixed in the first section, and will probably have the site/s they phone home to in the first 10 KB -- often in the first 2 KB of the file&#33; You could type over the web address/es these files try to contact and &#39;defeat&#39; their &#39;phone home&#39; capabilities easily.

However, Microsoft&#39;s newest media types, Windows Media Player v9 codecs, has DRM (Digital Rights Management) features AND &#39;phone home&#39; capabilities -- but I think this only applies to their WMV3 and WMV9 video codecs which work in .AVI and .WMV file formats.

[erRor67]

But if you have a firewall, they shouldnt be able to get to the internet without the user letting it. right?