Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent

[RicAdbur]

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...

[anon]

http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/431082-Comcast-Letters-Torrents-NewsGroups-and-Other-Stuff

[RicAdbur]

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.

[anon]

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.

[RicAdbur]

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_filtering_with_utorrent/

[anon]

Can you recommend a good IP filter?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ed2k-ipfilterx/files/uIpfilterX/

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


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.

[RicAdbur]

Ok thanks.

[Hiccup]

Use peerblock

[lukarav]

Or get a VPN.

[anon]

Use peerblock

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

[zot]

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.

[anon]

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.


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

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).

[Frankthetank1]

so if on win7 its not?



Use peerblock

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

[anon]

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.

[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?

[zot]

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.

[anon]

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?

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.