harempriestess Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Well, I received, or rather, my parents did, as it's their provider, one of these, referencing one of manythings I've downloaded using bitComet. (New computer, am now using bitLord.) Anyhoo, I've seen a lot of people saying that I should just ignore it because likely nothing more will be done. I would just like some more opinions about what I should do. As it's the summer, and I really only torrent new episodes of shows during the regular season, I haven't been doing much, and just figure I won't do any for awhile. Of course, this is something I downloaded in MARCH, so it's not like I haven't done anything since then. Should I be bothered with backing things up to disk? Or just the one thing that's in question? Or simply to my external hard drive? Do nothing? I'm worried, because, yeah, I've heard stories, but then I'm really not because it's obvious I'm not the only one. Seems like such a waste of energy and paper considering most of us here do this for our own enjoyment, and not to make money. And h***, I'm only doing it on the item in question until the d*** season comes out on DVD, so.... Any advice would be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greywizard Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Well, the obvious full protection solution would be a VPN service like IPredator, which conceals your IP address. The anti-P2P agencies work by recording your IP while you were participating in downloading a copyrighted material. You're probably one of many other hundreds who may have happened to be downloading that torrent at that particular point, and who may have received such a letter. They don't really monitor your actions specifically. If you happened to be among those IPs you were served. There is a case known in US when they served a printer which was residing on some floor in a big company, with such a letter! The best course of action would be to ignore the letter, for now and see if they pursue that any further. As a piece of advice, you should try to stay away from "hot" new torrents, unless you get them from private trackers which are "closed" communities and therefore, much harder to penetrate by anti-P2P shills. If you're not a member in such a private site, you should try and become one and you'll rest at more peace thereafter. You may try to also download and install Peer Guardian. It blocks connections to some of the known anti-P2P organizations' IP addresses (the P2P, government and spyware lists) therefore it may protect you in some cases but by no means should you be fooled into thinking that you're away for good from the evil eyes of MPAA, just by doing that. It also may help on certain torrents on which that same type of anti-P2P organizations act as "poison" releasers (uploading corrupted pieces into the swarm) if their IPs are on those lists. There are a lot of pro and con opinions on using it (as to its usefulness) so you should make up your own mind on that. You also may consider alternative download sources such as Usenet, but then you'll have a somewhat harder time finding what you seek (until you learn your way around in that jungle) and you may have to be prepared to cash out something for a Usenet subscription (free Usenet access offered by many ISPs in their Internet packs, many times leaves much to desire). But as I said, the cheapest and easiest solution to circumvent the wolves praying on you now and to get a good night's sleep would be a VPN subscription to a service such as IPredator, which reroutes all your P2P connections through their servers, encrypts the connection between you and their servers (so that your ISP can legally say that they can't peek into your traffic) and which claims that they don't keep any logs on the servers. I haven't used it myself but is seems like the most sensible choice at present time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Bitlord was made from a very old bitcomet version (0.57 I believe) and has never been updated since. I can't see any reason anyone would want to use such an outdated program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harempriestess Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 Well, the obvious full protection solution would be a VPN service like IPredator, which conceals your IP address. ... I haven't used it myself but is seems like the most sensible choice at present time. I've heard about PeerGuardian, both good and bad info, so I'm going to do more research. Mostly I'm just not really going to worry after talking to someone who knows way more about this kind of stuff than I do. And she's going to see if she can help me look elsewhere for tele shows instead of p2p. Thanks, though, and I will keep what you said in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harempriestess Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 (edited) Bitlord was made from a very old bitcomet version (0.57 I believe) and has never been updated since. I can't see any reason anyone would want to use such an outdated program. Thanks! I'll keep in mind that I may not actually receive any actual advice when I ask questions. So glad you made the effort to simply inquire as to why I'm such an idiot. Awesome. (Some people *rolls eyes*) (Not to mention that the date for which I received the letter I was using bitcomet) Edited July 13, 2010 by harempriestess (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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