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Katilian on 18 February 2008
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ssj12 said:
iclim4 said:
ssj12 said:
darklich13 said:
utorrent is the best one that I have used. I'd stick with that one. My HD Lost episodes come in within minutes.

does it allow you to encrypt downlaods? if not its becoming more and more unsafe to use.


It does, but its pretty useless.
for example an MPAA spy decided to seed an episode of lost.
even if your download is encrypted and the packets cant be read by the internet provider, your IP is still with the MPAA spy youre sharing the file with. They check your IP with your Internet provider and BAM your getting mail that youre infringing copyright.


wel you can encrypt the entire transfer so it just looks like your downloading a bunch of images or something. Also a good encryption wont allow your IP to be traced that easily. even by your ISP. This is why I use Bit-Tornado. The stealth encryption is quite good.


All stealth encryption does is attempt to prevent the ISP from deciding if the traffic coming to and from your connection is P2P content. Yes, all content is encrypted, even between you and the tracker, and it prevents unencrypted connection from even being made to your system. But all the MPAA/RIAA/whoever had to do, is connect to the same tracker, with the same torrent, using stealth encryption as well, and over comes the list of everyone on it.

iclim4 has mentioned peer guardian. This is about the best you can do to defend yourself, as it won't allow for any potential 'bad guys' to connect to you, although there is nothing stopping them from scanning from an unblocked IP range. While they can still see your IP, the idea behind this is they won't be able to send or receive any data from you, making it impossible for them to be certain that you are actually sharing or receiving the torrent.