I currently have my web brower and my BitTorrent client set to connect through a HTTP elite proxy server. Is this the best option to avoid getting in legal trouble for torrent downloads?

Get an IP filter. I have one for uTorrent and it (supposedly) filters out all bad IPs.

Hmmm...you mean like a proxy checker? Which filter do you recommend? Do these programs find the best proxies and automatically switch when a better one is found or something?

TOR, and act as a TOR server. Just say it was some kid in china bypassing the censorship... through your server.

Tor is shit unless you run the program through it, and even then you start getting 4kb/s downloads because you're going through eight different servers and the last one is in some remote city in China where all they have is 28.8k or...telnet or something.

Get PeerGuardian 2. It's an IP filter, which means it acts like a mini-firewall. Only IPs not on its little list don't get blocked. The list hold IPs for RIAA, Government agencies, Universities, and your grandmother to stop her from scolding you for downloading illegal stuff.

I think the point hitnrun was trying to make is that if you install Tor and act as a node... You can deny any illegal activity coming from your computer saying that it was someone else connected to you through Tor. Of course, this is a stupid idea.

OK I installed Tor. How do I configure BitTorrent to work through Tor?

Don't use Tor. Use PeerGuardian 2. Tor is more for anonymous web browsing so people can't see what you've connected to. Peerguardian effectively denies RIAA and government agencies from connecting to your computer. I've used it for almost a year, I've had two warnings from Cox Communications about downloading movies, but now that I have peerguardian I haven't heard a peep outa them.

Yeah cause when they ask for logs what are you goin to tell them? ISP keeps logs of all traffic. If illegal content comes in on p2p and doesnt go out on tor then your fucked.......


dont use tor, Most port torrents run on are blocked anyways

Torrent technology is perfectly legal. downloading and uploading via torrent network is perfectly legal, however it depends upon the content you're downloading/sharing.

There really isn't any best option to avoid getting into trouble whilst downloading copyrighted material. The only best and safe option is to avoid using the torrent network. The mpaa, riaa, bpi and many other groups are all over the torrent network. Downloading is really not the issue, it's more of the actual sharing of the content.

If you must pirate material, then you should use something like rapidshare. They offers direct downloads, maxed out transfer speeds and no forced sharing. They also have such a wide range of content on their database it's almost unbelievable. The only kicker is, you have to pay a small fee...and yes the fee actually really small and affordable. Well, you can use the free service, but it's limited to how much you can download a day. It beats crappy download speeds, whilst trying to hide yourself, whilst being forced to share the illegal content...Torrent is such an open network it really isn't worth the risk. Those groups will only jump on you like a bunch vultures that they are.