Let me tell I tried TONS of free things that are supposed to hide your IP or change your IP with either built in IP spoofers or proxies. But guess what? That SHIT DOESN'T WORK! How do I know? Becuase I did what everybody does, I set it up, then go to a site to "check my IP" and it think, ok cool it's working. But in REAL LIFE when I need that stuff to work it didn't.
On just regular old sites that stuff was fine but when I needed to do some BUSINESS and that business was with Google (who had me banned me from doing a certain kind of business with them) Google saw right threw it. I burned through three or four new accounts until I found the real deal. A VPN.
A VPN is a Virtual Private Network and even though it sounds like something special all it really means is there's a PLACE in-between you and the sites you're looking at. I could write a bunch of stuff explaning that but here's an image capture from the company I use
The cheapest reliable company I could find was IBVPN. There's a lot of them out there, but they charge a nice penny, but IBVPN has a free thing with a few IP's. But I wanted their multiple IP's and pay about $3 a month (that's 10 CENTS a day, you can afford it!). That way if I burn one IP I can move on to another. And it's good for visiting torrent sites so there's no trace of ever going there. I don't use it to download, because that's pretty much anonymous (EDIT; just using a good proxy changer).
If you REALLY want to use something for downloading torrents you might go with a PAID proxy service like Proxify. They're one of the real ones that work.
I also use both those for fun stuff like downloading comic books from places like HotFile, that make you wait 30 minutes in-between downloads. Not me! I just switch IP's.
Actually you've got it backwards. Visiting a torrent site is pretty much anonymous as in only the torrent site and your ISP would know. Also it's unlikely that if the MPAA or RIAA knew that you would have any problems since none of your activities on any torrent site are illegal.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're actually using the torrent with a bittorrent program such as utorrent to download copyrighted material is when you are entirely exposed and can get yourself in trouble. Everyone connected to that torrent will have your IP address and know how much of the torrent you've downloaded. If the MPAA or RIAA are monitoring it by posing as a peer then they have that information too.
There's a difference between "pretty much anonymous" and totally exposed in every conceivable way.
You must have a short memory ISP's have given away tons of dowloader's data. From Napster to Oink. And people have been subpoenaed. Not to mention a lot of ISPs look at where you go if they see high data use.
ReplyDeleteAnd he says he uses VPN for site visits and a proxy changer for downloading.