How do companies track my torrent activity to flag me for copyright infringement? I'm assuming via tracking IP address because that is the information provided in the cease letters. Privacy is a common theme here, so from what I've read VPNs are the primary way to divert your IP address. Although, I'm assuming this isnt the whole truth, if so can someone help me in understanding?
peerblock
>>54454491
Fuckoff.
That seems to only block direct connections. Could they not easily contact the provider for evidence of my activity. Also the connections blocked by peerblock is ambiguous.
>>54454535
Only allow encrypted connections in your client. ISP won't be able to tell what you're doing with any amount of certainty.
They insert their oversized shaft into your network
>>54454491
They ask the tracker for a list of IPs participating in the torrent, just like any Bittorrent client does.
>>54454503
Placebo. They don't necessarily need to contact your computer. The tracker already ratted you out.
>>54454574
>tracker already ratted you out
Hearsay.
They just hire an "internet security" company in India that downloads the torrent and logs any IPs from the ISP.
And that's why you should avoid public trackers, and meme sites like TPB.
>>54454549
Which doesn't matter if he's getting letters from lawyers. The way that works is that some copyright holder or their enforcers jump on a swarm for a particular torrent and make a record of all the peers they see. They look up all those IP addresses, and if any are residential ISPs in a jurisdiction where they can operate, they send the ISP saying "your IP, such-and-such, was distributing copyrighted material at time whatever. We demand you look up whoever had that IP at that time and send them this nastygram, or turn over their identity to us" It doesn't matter whether the ISP can ID your traffic as torrent traffic due to protocol encryption, the MAFIAA will tell them what it was.
This is why VPNs protect you, since if you pick a decent provider, the copyright thug sees only an IP from a shared hosting provider in another country. If he even bothers to ask them, unlikely since operating in a foreign jurisdiction is a pain if they're even able to, they'll say "Yeah, a dozen people were on that server and we don't have any logs of who was on what when".
Peerblock helps if and only if the copyright enforcement outfit's IPs are all on its blocklist. Which they possibly are. They know people do this stuff and do try to use non-suspicious IPs. It might help but it's not ironclad.
Private trackers are secure without additional protection only if there's no double agents in them. This can happen, the reason Empornium was closed for so long, and now does that invite faggotry instead of just periodic open registrations, is because some copyright guy got hold of a moderator's account and sent letters to a bunch of people.
>>54454574
>>54454636
Sounds simple. So even if the company were to plant decoy users within the file sharing, by just falsifying your IP, you make it impossible to pinpoint, yea?
I'm curious about these "Russian" misdirection servers that people filter through. Whats the specifics of how that opperates? Is that just a joke or does it have purpose, because it seems that if you can protect your IP through simpler means, then going to those lengths becomes redundant.
>>54454697
>the reason Empornium was closed for so long, and now does that invite faggotry instead of just periodic open registrations, is because some copyright guy got hold of a moderator's account and sent letters to a bunch of people.
Holy shit, my fucking sides
>>54454585
>being this mentally retarded
Were you born feet first?
