How paranoid are you?

I grew up downloading warez via IRC and (LOL) AOL chatrooms back when AOL reigned supreme, it was on my packard bell win95 box-- ~$2000 for 133mhz cpu.. Filesharing is just part of "the internet" that I grew up with and am familiar with, it was the idea of filesharing that really sparked my interest in information technologies. If I ever got a message from my ISP about illegal activities I would feel so violated and switch ISPs immediately.. torrents or not filesharing will always be here in some shape or form, just use the technology wisely and contribute back!

I was under the impression that private trackers were relatively safe.

I try to stay under the 250 gb a month flag from comcast so i don't get a letter..... I Think if i got a letter I'd stop using torrents (actually i don't know if i could stop lol), i may even just switch internet provider.

Also aren't warez from download sites like rapidshare less likely to get you caught? I Never really thought about this because nothing has really happened to me.

I rarely use Bittorrent for anything, but when I do I only use sites that offer SSL.

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Originally Posted by Skiz

I rarely use Bittorrent for anything, but when I do I only use sites that offer SSL.

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I'm assuming you mean tracker based SSL? Or just for the website? Are there any notable trackers that are completely based on SSL for the tracker portion of the site?

A few of the smaller communities that focus on security are 100% SSL, or at the very least SSL by default.

I use peer block.

I don`t use any of these tricks mentioned above. I just download and seed :)

The fact that my isp only keeps ip-logs for like 48 hours or something like that makes me feel as secure as I can be. Except for using seedboxes or VPN i don't see how you can take any precautions that gives you more than just false security. SSL means nothing, atleast in Sweden, since evidence is collected by logging the direct transfer of files between peers and APB (the anti-piracy bureau).

Thing is. All connections eighter html, vnp, vpc and can be listened to.

My point is that if everyone is into the dirtiest smut possible, and we are winning, noone will vote for any of that democratically. We will then go by the issues!

We will all go down if secrets happen! ;)

Untill now my level of paranoia is 0 and I hope it's stay's this way .