Aye!! Shiver me hard drives there Matey!! LOL
Why dont you people just turn on encrypt for all peer to peer connections from your torrent programs? And only accept encrypted connections? Then the cant scan or prove what you downloaded. Yeah, downloads maybe slow, but what by 5 mins? I can wait 5 mins for encrypted versions of files. Torrent programs have these options built in for a reason. Also use magnet links.... Am i in the noob sections?
Hmmm.....maybe this is why I've only gotten 2 notices over the years.
"I" thought that anyone who uses a torrent client knows to turn encryption on. I go a step further and disable the legacy connections.
Note:* Allow
incoming legacy connections allows BitTorrent Mainline to accept unencrypted incoming connections. If disabled, any incoming connection that is unencrypted will be ignored. It is recommended that you not disable this option
unless your ISP actively searches for unencrypted incoming connections, as it can significantly impair your ability to connect to peers."
From
µTorrent Connection Setup Guide - Videos & Guides - Help - µTorrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client
Enabling Protocol Encryption
Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) actively interfere with P2P activities in order to reduce their bandwidth requirements. This causes µTorrent and other file sharing download speeds to become slow. To avoid this, µTorrent and other clients have introduced an encryption protocol to prevent ISPs from identifying BitTorrent traffic.
- Go to Options > Preferences > BitTorrent. Set Outgoing under Protocol Encryption to Enable, check "Allow incoming legacy connections".
Some ISPs have extremely aggressive throttling methods and for those users it might be necessary to set outgoing to Forced; however this will greatly reduce the number of peers you can connect to. Enabled is sufficient for most users.
Then "I":
1.) Turn off DHT
2.) Turn off Local Peer Discovery
3.) Turn off Peer Exchange
4.) Turn ON ask tracker for scrape information.
Another thing I do is UNCHECK the "Randomize port each start" and then change the incoming port to something ABOVE 53,000. It may be a myth, but I've read in several places that ISP's kinda FLAG port activity between 51,000 and 53,000.
You really don't have to do all of that, but I've experimented over the years to get everything down to the least amount of "noise" while active.
This is all I've done for the last 8 years and I have 3 boxes that I seed from almost constantly.
No PeerBlock, Proxy, SSH Tunnel with a VPN service or anything, and I don't screw with my IP's.
But, I also ONLY use PRIVATE TRACKERS!!! I've gone to TPB on occasion, but I used a VM to connect. (I hear they have HERPES so I used a Cyber Condom. lol) The same with h33t.com when I've gone there. I don't really consider Demonoid a "private" tracker BTW.
One more thing, in the last year I have QUIT messing with CAMS & SCREENERS. The people I've seen getting notices lately are for these and movies & music that's been out for less than 6 months. Even though I'm on private trackers I decided to leave anything less than a year old in the Movie & Music category alone.
I just found this site recently
Torrent Invites - Get your free bittorrent tracker invitations! and it may be a resource for some of you to get into private trackers. I dunno, I haven't had time to really be active there and know how good it is or isn't. But it's free to join and has open registrations.
