Peerguardian & Risk For Indian P2p Users (chance to win free Invite!)

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wastednetid

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As you would have read on the net, organisations in USA and CA are raiding and arresting many to rr e n t sites.:@

My question is, how much risk do the Indian P2P users face? Like is there a possibility torrent users in India can be fined or arrested?:huh:

And is PEERGUARDIAN software useful?

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For indian users there is not much to worry about coz the MPAA is after Site Ops, Admins and Uploaders. So you are pretty much safe if you are accessing from india.

Peerguardian - well its a blocklist of IP blocks its good enuf to block spyware Anti - P2P orgs . But for the likes of MediaDefeneder who change their IP blocks fast enough and try to poison the network its not very effective.

If you want to be safe use a tried and test private tracker. There is a lot less chance of getting caught if you private trackers :)
 
till there is piracy in india there is no risk

everyone knows

if we cant download from torrent we can easily buy pirated discs

so untill piracy is stopped in india p2p users no need to be afraid of

and besides this

almost 60% or more users have a dynamic ip

how the hell are they gonna trace it even if they start looking for it :bleh:
 
Kumar said:
^^^Even that is risky....take the case of Oink.

For the Admins , ops, uploaders yes it was risky but for its users ..nah..

Nither MPAA nor any other organization care about the people who download from these sites. They are after the uploaders in case of Bit-torrent.
 
ultimabasher said:
almost 60% or more users have a dynamic ip

how the hell are they gonna trace it even if they start looking for it :bleh:

ISP's are required to maintain a log..so tracing should be easy if they get a warrant...
 
The that host, supply or promote these torrents, r the ones in trouble..

As for normal downloaders, atleast they r taking the pain of downloading,,,

whereas u can get dem for 20buck on the streets,,,In india, if they gotta start, they have to start with the road side guys who sell pirated copies in broad daylight..

Then there are the big shops who sell pirated games and softwares..THEN in the end wud be ur turn..lol

but till then u would have leeched ur hearts off...lol
 
oh guys common the guys who get caught r the sysops and the owners of p2psites not the users. The risk is for them not for us . U know that the owner of oink was caught not the users .So don worry abt it. U guys shouldnt get so serious abt it unless u r the admins or sysops of any p2psites . :)
 
indrajeet1811 said:
ISP's are required to maintain a log..so tracing should be easy if they get a warrant...

no isp's do not maintain the log unless ur ip is static i.e static ip is mostly given to business men who would never have heard abt torrents lol :rofl:
 
spawn143 said:
no isp's do not maintain the log unless ur ip is static i.e static ip is mostly given to business men who would never have heard abt torrents lol :rofl:

ISP's do maintain logs for all the ISP's that they have assigned to their subscribers for a particular span of time.:)
 
ultra vires said:
ISP's do maintain logs for all the ISP's that they have assigned to their subscribers for a particular span of time.:)

this does not make sense

oh...are you trying to say:P
ISP's do maintain logs for all the IP address's that they have assigned to their subscribers for a particular span of time
 
spawn143 said:
no isp's do not maintain the log unless ur ip is static i.e static ip is mostly given to business men who would never have heard abt torrents lol :rofl:
They do maintain logs so even if you are on dynamic IP,you can be caught.
But we are just small player leeching at 256kbps-2mbps,the big fishes are there in Europe where even 1gbps connections are very common.

Sweden and Norway rules!
 
PeerGuardian is a nice bit of software that hide a lot of of information that can be used to identify. FYI, the problem with torrents, unlike server based P2Ps like Kaaza is that on torrent your IP etc can be viewed by anyone. PeerGurdian mitigate this risk.
Though it's understandably not full proof and won't be able to save Sys Ops and Hosts etc if a competent organization is going after them. The way to deal with this kind hunt is to use server/programming techniques (i don't know about them but heard some bits and pieces) involving obfuscation, filtering and firewalls.

As far as Indian users are concerned, neither Cyber Law enforcement and nor Copyright scene is too good and clear here. Though things are improving, or rather say worsening for pirates.
Also because some people have discussed Static and Dynamic IP let me tell you that according to law all ISPs in India are supposed to keep log for certain period of time. This log is supposed to contain all the data that has passed to and from the cables of the ISPs. Satic and Dynamic IPs doesn't matter. Your ISP always have the info about the kind of content you are accessing along with the exact time and date. To make matter worse, unlike western countries where people often need warrants before they reveal this data, in India often a call or letter from an ACP is sufficient. Privacy laws are oxymoron here :@
Ideally nobody goes after individual users because stakes are so low that it's not worth it. But if somebody is indeed monitoring you on torrents, PeerGuardian may provide you with a little bit of shroud. But for how long will it stay on you depends on resolve and skills of those who are monitoring you.

A greater problem than the risk of getting caught is torrent traffic throttling. There are ISP's which shape data and throttle traffic. Best way to deal with it, as somebody wrote on TorrentFreak, is to encrypt your data using inbuilt tools within almost all major torrent programs, nag CC/officials of ur ISPs and force them to give you an honest answer as according to law they are not supposed to throttle traffic, and raise as much hue and cry as possible and finally change your ISP. If everything fails your last option is to use Tunneling but it costs a bit and is not really all that simple to use. But I doubt it will come this any soon :)
 
morgoth said:
PeerGuardian is a nice bit of software that hide a lot of of information that can be used to identify. FYI, the problem with torrents, unlike server based P2Ps like Kaaza is that on torrent your IP etc can be viewed by anyone. PeerGurdian mitigate this risk.
Though it's understandably not full proof and won't be able to save Sys Ops and Hosts etc if a competent organization is going after them. The way to deal with this kind hunt is to use server/programming techniques (i don't know about them but heard some bits and pieces) involving obfuscation, filtering and firewalls.

As far as Indian users are concerned, neither Cyber Law enforcement and nor Copyright scene is too good and clear here. Though things are improving, or rather say worsening for pirates.
Also because some people have discussed Static and Dynamic IP let me tell you that according to law all ISPs in India are supposed to keep log for certain period of time. This log is supposed to contain all the data that has passed to and from the cables of the ISPs. Satic and Dynamic IPs doesn't matter. Your ISP always have the info about the kind of content you are accessing along with the exact time and date. To make matter worse, unlike western countries where people often need warrants before they reveal this data, in India often a call or letter from an ACP is sufficient. Privacy laws are oxymoron here :@
Ideally nobody goes after individual users because stakes are so low that it's not worth it. But if somebody is indeed monitoring you on torrents, PeerGuardian may provide you with a little bit of shroud. But for how long will it stay on you depends on resolve and skills of those who are monitoring you.

A greater problem than the risk of getting caught is torrent traffic throttling. There are ISP's which shape data and throttle traffic. Best way to deal with it, as somebody wrote on TorrentFreak, is to encrypt your data using inbuilt tools within almost all major torrent programs, nag CC/officials of ur ISPs and force them to give you an honest answer as according to law they are not supposed to throttle traffic, and raise as much hue and cry as possible and finally change your ISP. If everything fails your last option is to use Tunneling but it costs a bit and is not really all that simple to use. But I doubt it will come this any soon :)

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