torrentfreak.com — BTGuard is an easy to use proxy service that adds an extra layer of privacy to your BitTorrent transfers. The service is designed for BitTorrent users who don?t want their ISPs or any third party to log or throttle their IPs or traffic.
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honoredmuleMar 10, 2008
Ironically, I would happily pay a premium for 'free' unfettered use of /my/ bandwidth.And if it's /not/ my bandwidth, stop dicking around and SELL it to me. Paying customers with cash to spare shouldn't have to beg for good service, or protection of their privacy.
suprfireMar 10, 2008
For the love of god?Learn to catch up with the world, science is the god newb.
tenoqMar 11, 2008
I have never seen these. Does anyone know if these are available in Australia?
tenoqMar 11, 2008
Might be worth checking the links. The site detects your home country and presents local pricing. For example, my visit to btguard.com showed pricing @ $A7.50 per month.
tenoqMar 11, 2008
Nor did Zephyr say it WAS for transferring media files. *facepalm*
spoon420Mar 11, 2008
Lots of bt users are going to bitch about a tiny fee. They are already using bt cuz its free and they r 2 cheap to go walk a block to rent a video. look at this though. $1500month for a 50MB line for bandwidth. Also view their Terms of service. They don't want you to use your bt for downloading illegal files or they shut you off. There are legal uses for bt. If it was completely illegal i;m sure it would of went down already. There are also legal and illegal uses for a proxy, and for many other things. Usenet is better I agree, but I haven't found a Usenet program for less then $30 month. And my roommate got us in trouble 4 times already from using it. We got a letter from midconitent our ISP that states if we get caught again we no longer have Internet service. I would rather the letter go to BT guard for $8month. And they got WHOIS guard. So do I on my website. They're a privacy service, makes sense right. Looks to me like their biggest concern is getting sued, in fact they claim to be owned by Netcrawled LLC so pretty sure they don't want to be held liable for anything someone might do on their server. Even when I'm downloading legal stuff and I do ALOT I don't want anyone spying on me, or collecting any information on me at all for their stupid market research so they can figure out what produces I might want to buy. I want as much privacy as I can get because its none of your damn business what I'm doing in the privacy of my home(unless I'm hurting someone else but that's not the case). Bitchy people & straight up aholes are slowly taking away what little freedom's we have left. At lease someones trying to keep BT alive.
zudaneOct 23, 2008
Dude... it's not just Americans, it's anybody uneducated. Showing that you think it's all Americans shows that you are an idiot yourself. Congratulations, you can type proper English, doesn't make you intelligent in any aspect.Why not just tell the people that use words incorrectly to learn, rather than categorizing them by what color they are, what religion they are, or where they are from, kay? Good.
zudaneOct 23, 2008
You're an idiot, IP addresses are shown on bit torrent, you use paypal, not your credit card... and the canadian law protects THEM from having to collect or give out YOUR information.Next time try not being an idiot, kay?
zudaneOct 23, 2008
The point is that most ISPs all over the world block or throttle torrent downloads and uploads because it's a lot of bandwidth that brings no money to them. using a proxy blocks your ISP from seeing the packets that are sent through their servers, so they can't tell whether you're sending them to another person, or if you're sending them to some site for an upload, so they aren't going to be blocked.
zudaneOct 24, 2008
Yea.. if they don't have that in their T&C then they are blatantly telling you to download illegal things. That's just to cover their asses. BitTorrent (and any other torrent program) all have the same, or else the can get sued for promoting pirating.
biohazard87Dec 29, 2008
I had Adelphia in California a few years back before it turned into Time Warner, got sent a long packet with tons of stapled papers listing off the files I downloaded (40 Year Old Virgin, LRC rip) and basically saying Universal, etc has the ability to sue me for all this money, blah blah, etc. Ignored it, and nothing ever came of it.I found out about and started using PeerGuardian half way through downloading that release actually, and haven't been caught since while using PeerGuardian with the gov/p2p/spy/edu list's and also the level1 and level2 lists from bluetack.
nidhtFeb 8, 2009
Using BitTorrent is not a violation of the law. Leeching and seeding copyright software is. Protecting your privacy from ISPs who sniff packets is your right. The service itself doesn't help you violate any laws. It's what you choose to do with that service.