paranoia over filesharing

No one knows, download Peerblock to block all the ips, I wouldn't recommend blocking education but if you feel safer do it I guess, and use forced encryption is all you can pretty much do, and use router or firewall.

Unless you're willing to pay for a seedbox/vpn or usenet.

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Originally Posted by kondrae

Just think of it this way: you have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting sued for downloading

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where do you get that number ?

i made it up

If you take steps to reduce your chances of being sued, like avoiding limewire, avoiding popular/leaked releases especially on public trackers, using private trackers, you'll reduce your chances even more

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Originally Posted by cinephilia

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

If you download from public trackers or huge private ones, there may be one. But normally you should be sent a letter along the lines of "you downloaded X, delete it now" first. There's no 100% safe site, but generally the smaller or harder to get in a tracker is, the safer it should be.

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that's what ex-UK-T members was thinking before a certain event occurs :rolleyes:

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may i say, nobody got sued for filesharing. Only sysops, admins, and uploaders have to worry in that kind of situation

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Originally Posted by kondrae

may i say, nobody got sued for filesharing. Only sysops, admins, and uploaders have to worry in that kind of situation

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Users generally aren't brought up unless they make really stupid choices like use Kazaa to download music. It is the sources that have to worry.

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Originally Posted by xuxoxux

Users generally aren't brought up unless they make really stupid choices like use Kazaa to download music. It is the sources that have to worry.

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Yes they have sued casual filesharers, it is said that certain sources are safe, but if they're in, they can sentence you in exactly the same way.

I don't know anyone who has gotten a letter while using private trackers. If you stick to private trackers and use something like peerguardian, you are pretty safe. The RIAA/MPAA/etc can't go after everyone and seem to go for the easy targets, so if you make yourself more difficult than the next guy...

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Originally Posted by chrisbeebops

I don't know anyone who has gotten a letter while using private trackers. If you stick to private trackers and use something like peerguardian, you are pretty safe. The RIAA/MPAA/etc can't go after everyone and seem to go for the easy targets, so if you make yourself more difficult than the next guy...

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Well, people have gotten DMCA letters over at TL, but what do you expect, the tracker has 180k