Got Caught On Bittorrent?

[elitek]

so I am new to bittorent, one noob question is: is it safer to use bittorrent than kazaa? do you still have to worry about the riaa?

[tracydani]

Not any safer. Your ip is right there for everyone to see. Get a proxy to help limit your risk.

TD

HINT: Look down.

[elitek]

Originally posted by tracydani@26 July 2004 - 18:04
Not any safer. Your ip is right there for everyone to see. Get a proxy to help limit your risk.

TD

HINT: Look down.
but isn't riaa only targeting kazaa users?

[Jay]

Originally posted by elitek+26 July 2004 - 14:48--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (elitek @ 26 July 2004 - 14:48)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-tracydani@26 July 2004 - 18:04
Not any safer.&nbsp; Your ip is right there for everyone to see.&nbsp; Get a proxy to help limit your risk.

TD

HINT:&nbsp; Look down.
but isn&#39;t riaa only targeting kazaa users? [/b][/quote]
not anymore, from what i been hearing is that people on suprnova are getting busted for downloading stuff.

[ofbz]

what about peerguardian and protowall.... do they really work???

[tracydani]

Originally posted by ofbz@27 July 2004 - 07:58
what about peerguardian and protowall.... do they really work???
They only block ip&#39;s. That means they are only as good as the ip&#39;s fed into them.

This could mean you are blocking people that were put there by mistake, maybe someone has a grudge against you and added you to the nasty list. Not to mention the likelyhood of riaa/mpaa or other watchdog type group changing ip&#39;s. How do you always block the right people?

TD

[RealitY]

Regarding your IP or idenity it would be about the same either way generally although it may actually be safer since the AA, if we&#39;re discussing music, is generally targeting large uploaders, thus if you&#39;re dl / ul a music torrent it is likely that it will only contain one cd so then it would suddenly seem a bit difficult for them to make the same case as they can against Fast Track users...

[justin_9733]

Don&#39;t worry about it, even if they do catch you they will just send a threatening letter to you and tell you to stop sharing the file but it is a small chance of that happening anyways.

[Candy King]

About 1 year on BT here, suprnova, Torrentbits and other places not caught yet, pplus all you get is a warning then if u keep doing it you get a fine/court case/whatever.

[SingaBoiy]

Best to stick with sites that have private trackers. And that split the files into rar&#39;s with the names changes (i.e. tgs-ss.01). For example TorrentBits and FileList.org