IP Masking

Wiggins · 26 Apr 2007 at 09:03

Hi Guys

I need a little help on something.

As we all know, P2P File Sharing has had its hit of criticism, controversy, court fines and best of all a kick in the teeth for those money hungry CEO's who want to milk the bugger out of people for software.

I am one of many millions who like to get the occasional bit of stuff off the net ( to try before you buy of course

) and am wondering if there is any decent free IP Masking Software about that will help me on my journey.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

InsomniaCalls · 26 Apr 2007 at 10:19

Peerguardian?

SuperBeast · 26 Apr 2007 at 10:23

This question is walking on very thin ice. Might have been better if you re-worded it a little.

Take a look at the faq regarding warez.

PhillyDee · 26 Apr 2007 at 10:56

It doesnt really work anyway. If they want to find you, they will. Its as simple as that.

fumbles · 26 Apr 2007 at 11:45

PhillyDee said:
It doesnt really work anyway. If they want to find you, they will. Its as simple as that.

What he said....

It is a waste of time, your ISP sees everything going through the pipes.

Energize · 26 Apr 2007 at 13:53

fumbles said:
What he said....

It is a waste of time, your ISP sees everything going through the pipes.

They don't keep a record of all the data sent through, do you know how much space that would take up? Besides bittorrent data is encrypted. They only keep a record of things like urls. Which can't prove what you downloaded.

Think about it, your isp isnt going to look for p2p users because then they would lose customers, what happens is that companies like the riaa try to connect to you then report you to your isp, peerguardian stops that.

Pixel · 26 Apr 2007 at 14:02

If you live in Britain/Europe, you're pretty much safe from that sort of thing at the moment anyway. I don't know any British ISP that would give out personal details of it's customers to anyone who isn't the law/government. Let's just say it isn't in their best interest.

GTO · 27 Apr 2007 at 23:42

Pixel said:
If you live in Britain/Europe, you're pretty much safe from that sort of thing at the moment anyway. I don't know any British ISP that would give out personal details of it's customers to anyone who isn't the law/government. Let's just say it isn't in their best interest.

That's not quite right.

My brother used to "share" stuff and he got a letter from BT telling him to stop or he would be disconnected.

It's the ISP that is threatened with llegal action for allowing their service to be used for illegal activities.

FirebarUK · 28 Apr 2007 at 00:31

My brother used to "share" stuff and he got a letter from BT telling him to stop or he would be disconnected.

He more than likely got the letter in regards to the huge amount of bandwidth he was using.

GTO · 28 Apr 2007 at 01:06

FirebarUK said:
He more than likely got the letter in regards to the huge amount of bandwidth he was using.

Nope, the letter even mentioned one of the movies he was sharing.

The funny thing is that all he did was remove that movie from his share and that was the end of it.

Energize · 28 Apr 2007 at 01:10

Exactly why you shouldn't upload movies to other people if you don't want to get caught.