Warning!!!

so torrents can be used to track people luckily i don't use torrent much too slow

I hated Torrents and downloaded movies or music with the likes of Rapidshare,megaupload etc but when your downloading link after link it bores the balls right off me. I find that first thing in the morning the download rate is in the hundreds so they fly in within an hour or 2 for full movies. I hear what your saying about the tracking but fingers crossed i stay in the clear lol

skateguy Wrote:Torrents are far more dangerous than direct downloads in terms of the ability to track your IP and therefore you.

Tracking can be made a bit more difficult by turning your router off occassionally. You get assigned a new address by your IP when it is switched back on.

TheWatcher Wrote:Tracking can be made a bit more difficult by turning your router off occassionally. You get assigned a new address by your IP when it is switched back on.

Didnt know that, good news lol

TheWatcher Wrote:

skateguy Wrote:Torrents are far more dangerous than direct downloads in terms of the ability to track your IP and therefore you.

Tracking can be made a bit more difficult by turning your router off occassionally. You get assigned a new address by your IP when it is switched back on.

That's a good tactic, but the IP address, even though its dynamic (temporary), can be still traced back to your ISP and therefore you can still be identified.

skateguy Wrote:That's a good tactic, but the IP address, even though its dynamic (temporary), can be still traced back to your ISP and therefore you can still be identified.

They might go after the biggest downloaders and so it might help to split it up with different addresses. The site would not know it was the same person if you clear your cookies out each time. Only the IP would know.

I'm not sure 'they' really go after the 'biggest' downloaders - I think that when they trace torrents they simply upload a specific file as a seeder and log the IP's of those that connect as a peer and then take whatever action they decide. I don't think 'they' (being the production companies such as the one that was the subject of the original post) monitor IP's across a range of different downloads over a long period of time.

So many cases that you hear about are of someone who's only downloaded one music file or something relatively minor - they've simply been caught for a one-off offence which anyone using a dynamic IP can also be.

TheWatcher Wrote:Just seen this on BBC web site

Thousands of internet users have been told they'll be taken to court unless they pay hundreds of pounds for illegally downloading and sharing hardcore porn movies.

Hope none of us forum members are targeted. For more details, see

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/techno...766448.stm

How about they go after the BBC for ripping us off with that licience fee we have to shell out to keep fat fuckers like Jonathan Ross on 6m a year.

hahahaha yea lol

Fat Fucker lol like it. WOSSY!!!!!!!! Wicky Gervais!!!!!! Hewwo im Jonathan Woss, tonight my guests are Wicky Gervais, Ewton John, Wussell Bwrand and Wenny Henwyy llllmmmmaaaaooo

Doesn't the ISP have to issue some kind of warning first????