Maintaining anonymity on private trackers??

[hijump]

anonimyty is not good ... popularity is very good for you ... to maintain fit for the wolrd

[Brenya]

Would you care to embellish a bit on any peculiarities of such a configuration?

There's nothing peculiar about a truecrypt volume. You just specify its size, punch in a password, and create it. Then you mount it and it acts just like a separate partition, with its own drive letter.

As long as you mount the volume with the same letter, utorrent can find the files.

[m021478]

Would you care to embellish a bit on any peculiarities of such a configuration?

There's nothing peculiar about a truecrypt volume. You just specify its size, punch in a password, and create it. Then you mount it and it acts just like a separate partition, with its own drive letter.

As long as you mount the volume with the same letter, utorrent can find the files.

With the primary reason of actually doing so being that, in the event the RIAA or MPAA file a lawsuit and the cops come smashing down your door to confiscate your hard drives, you would have all of your torrent files stored securely on an encrypted volume (that would require the help of the NSA to crack)...correct?

[wiseD]

if it's a decent tracker(with folks who know what they are doing), no one should worry too much.. that's my opinion anyways on it..

Exactly.

Private tracker = privacy. So if you don't feel safe on a tracker, get out. Simple as.

edit: lol @ RIAA or MPAA stealing your hard drives and breaking down your front door

[Brenya]

There's nothing peculiar about a truecrypt volume. You just specify its size, punch in a password, and create it. Then you mount it and it acts just like a separate partition, with its own drive letter.

As long as you mount the volume with the same letter, utorrent can find the files.

With the primary reason of actually doing so being that, in the event the RIAA or MPAA file a lawsuit and the cops come smashing down your door to confiscate your hard drives, you would have all of your torrent files stored securely on an encrypted volume (that would require the help of the NSA to crack)...correct?

No, the primary reason is general (and perfect) security from any unwarranted eavesdroppers... like my fucking dorm-mates, who are pretty tech-savvy...

The technology to encrypt is out there, and it's your right to use it.

And Truecrypt tells you everything in their pdf tutorial.

[SonsOfLiberty]

Who says private trackers are safe?

Private Trackers Do Not = privacy , how do you think they keep your ratio and your stats, they log you IP...sounds safe and sound to me. Next thing you know the site gets busted and they have you IP, your posts, your name, your uploads, your downloads, etc.....

Truecrypt is good if your not traveling outside of the US, because once you try to cross the border they will take you laptop and force you to give up the key or keep you laptop forever. It's a nice new law they have now.

[Alien5]

can you send me a link (or the text) to the guide you are talking about?

Thanks!

last time i checked there were guides in uk t & torrent bytes, lost my password for both so i cant be arsed.

Just tried the TB signup again i feel like smashing my keyboard up AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

[Lovestoned]

There are always certain risks for good stuffs.

If you dare to venture into piracy on internet and your country stringently disallows it and has been fining BT users for piracy in your country you should probably stop now then.

[Zaxx]

The simple fact is that there is no real way to hide your identity from someone determined to find it. The way that the bit torrent protocol works means that you need to lets other swarm members know your IP address. If you use a seedbox, there will be records connected with that seedbox (via to/from).

Servers all log data throughput, so if you make 15 hops to a server, each hop will log the packet transfer.

Of course, whether we use a sledge hammer to crack a nut in the case of filesharing is the real answer. George Bush could go to war with Sweden over filesharing, but would he?

The simple fact is that the industry will always opt for the cheapest option with the greatest reward. As someone said, it is like the lion chasing down the slowest antelope.

Very well put. I don't bother with being anony bs...I stick to private trackers that have their shit together (hint: bigger isn't always better..just makes it a bigger target) and stay off public ones. Never had an isp notice or dmca letter since I started torrenting in 2001. (heh...also use pg2 with bluetack list for what it's worth...lmao...old habbits are hard to break.)

[wiseD]

Who says private trackers are safe?

Private Trackers Do Not = privacy , how do you think they keep your ratio and your stats, they log you IP...sounds safe and sound to me. Next thing you know the site gets busted and they have you IP, your posts, your name, your uploads, your downloads, etc.....

So why would you join and be part of a site that doesn't encrypt the logs, data or isn't responsible with your info? Obviously they log your IP, they have all the history of your account anyway, it's part of TBDev and Gazelle.

Numbers on a site don't mean anything in a court case anyway, they can be changed at a click of a button by anyone above mod status.