The new file sharing laws

[not2slow]

Has anyone investigated how to disguise your IP address to work around the new file sharing regulations?

[Hitcher]

Yes. But even though these aren't illegal, I'm not going to discuss these in a public forum and would caution other KB members from doing so.

Google is your friend. Finding a workable arrangement should take you less than a minute.

[jazfender]

there be piggies listening.

[riffer]

Simple answer is, you can't.

From another forum:

TCP/IP communications that the BitTorrent protocol uses REQUIRES the sender and receiver to know each other's ip addresses. Connections can be NATed through a router, but that can run into firewalled issues if not port-forwarded...and still gives the router's internet ip address to the sender/receiver. And that internet ip is almost certainly going to be at the place-of-residence or workplace of whoever is using it, so you're still easily traceable.
In short, with direct connection, point-to-point file-sharing such as almost ALL common file-sharing programs (Kazaa, Gnutella, Shareaza, BitTorrent, E-Mule, WinMX, DirectConnect, etc) simply CANNOT hide their ip addresses other than routing ALL traffic through a proxy that will severely cripple speeds and max number of connections. ...Plus the proxy could be acting as a "copyright police" monitoring node, in which case even then all bets are off.
There is a small glimmer of hope with proxy-like networks such as TOR, but they simply cannot handle file-sharing levels of traffic and certainly cannot handle the monster-levels that BitTorrent generates. A proxy has to do everything 2x over -- sending out everything it receives, so its effective download speed over time is roughly HALF its upload speed.
Another small hope is UDP NAT hole-punching, which could possibly be coded so the receiver/downloader does not in fact know what the uploader's ip address is. However the temporary proxy needed to "introduce" the downloader and uploader to each other has to know both ips. It would also thoroughly complicate BitTorrent to introduce any privacy protection of that kind, because the whole purpose of a BitTorrent tracker is to TRACK ip addresses with the torrent/s in question! DHT and Peer Exchange wouldn't "solve" that, because they too have to know ip addresses to work...they just might not need to know which particular ip has which particular torrent. But at some level, something has to know or no connections could be made.
Man-in-the-middle anti-privacy attacks are the hardest of all to stop if everything's being done in the clear over an open network. Closed networks almost always have a single point or points of failure (such as private trackers or private DirectConnect hubs).
The problem with being on a network where you can search and download from a million people...is a million people can likely try to download from you!

[sugilite:Me]

I'm guessing those dastardly down loaders may move to proxy and http single download links rather than use torrents, or start using something like usenet or whatever.

[blackdog]

As per Hitchers post. The Chinese have been disguising their IP addresses for many years.

[Winston001]

As per Hitchers post. The Chinese have been disguising their IP addresses for many years.

Yeah but that doesn't help for torrents. The copyright holders are watching the download sites (Pirate Bay etc) and follow the torrent. That leads them directly to your ISP and to you. So I am told.

[blackdog]

Yeah but that doesn't help for torrents. The copyright holders are watching the download sites (Pirate Bay etc) and follow the torrent. That leads them directly to your ISP and to you. So I am told.

I would give you a link but in the immortal words of Arkwright, Y,y,y,y,y,yo,yo,you,you can wor,wor,wor,work it out for yourself, can't you.

[superman]

The amount of people that download copyrighted material is just insane.

[jazfender]

There is a small glimmer of hope with proxy-like networks such as TOR, but they simply cannot handle file-sharing levels of traffic and certainly cannot handle the monster-levels that BitTorrent generates. A proxy has to do everything 2x over -- sending out everything it receives, so its effective download speed over time is roughly HALF its upload speed.

I have...anecdotal evidence going against that.

[Juzz976]

IP spoofers (as they're called) have been around for at least 15 years.

Been spoofing since then anyways....

[Spuds1234]

Seed box in a file sharing friendly country. Minimal cost and a very very useful thing to have for private trackers.

[george formby]

A customer of mine with a mischievous streak a mile wide is spending his afternoons downloading the latest movies through a free, public wifi service. Fine by me, my rates are paying for it & I own an internet cafe....

He just wants to see what happens.

[The Everlasting]

Haha lol,let us know if he gets in trouble.

Hotels that offer WIFI now have the following notice on their invoices:


According to the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 that became enforced law starting on the 1st of September 2011,please be advised that you are responsible for your Internet Usage. If you requested an Internet access,your username and password will be recorded at reception and monitored for any illegal activity in terms of unauthorized downloads or uploading of music,software and any other kind of files.


The whole paragraph is in Bold text,so they must be trying to cover themselves.

[imdying]

work around the new file sharing regulations?

One way is to get yourself a private VPN into an overseas server. RDP into that box, then torrent on it hard out. It's cheap enough to get 500GB of space and more bandwidth than you can use. Then download those torrented files back to your own PC and you're done. More pissing about than I can be bothered with, but plenty do.