how do i hide my ip address when downloading torrents

Let me explain what happened to me and how i got back at comcast see i am a developer and when apple launched mac os x leopard beta i needed to use a torrent to download it because apples own download site was down due to overload of users downloading it well i downloaded it installed it and i got a letter telling me i was in violation from apple computers inc and needed to stop using the software effective immediately well i wrote them back explaining hey i was a developer and apples download site was down so i had to download the beta another way and told them to basically go $#$% themselves they sent not 1 truck not two trucks but 3 trucks i watched them monitoring my connection from the poll across the street from me and two morons on laptops jacking into my network which of course i had protected with a firewall that distributes a virus that wipes lan cards firmware off of there machines if they try to gain entry. You must be a small fish to have lasted so long. The same would have happened if you were on Verizon. Even if you are blocking them they will know you are up and running and will catch you because that is their job.

The hunters know your address and will probably check it regularly with a direct ping meaning they don't have to hunt you because they know where you are. The blockers only prevent the hunters from seeing your total uploads and total down loads which are publicly viewable so torrent trackers can prioritize what you get. You might avoid detection by using a blocker and only download once every other month but you are on their black list now. They log each IP address a user sends info to then does the same for each of those connections.Īs the torrent users leave the hunters can look for smaller quarry. There are probably 50 or more 'spiders' that hunt torrent nets or webs for users.

They were told to contact you by the media watch groups. That is enough to take you to court or have pay 3 grand for each infraction.Ĭomcast doesn't just send out letters. They will download the movie repeatedly, logging all the IP addresses of those that sent them info.

Hackers for hire are paid to hunt down torrents for a particular movie or game. Otherwise you will get caught and not just get a letter. Pick one that will provide a secure protocol. You probably want to stop torrents all together and move to newsgroups or some other format where you pay to download and you don't upload.

How do i hide my ip address when downloading torrents