azureus.sourceforge.net— The RIAA will never find you... This article differs from the previous submission about anonymous bittorrent in that it is specifically a tutorial for Azureus.
Oct 12, 2005View in Crawl 4
This is not entirely true, because when you have this set up, it sends the initial requests (HTTP or otherwise) throught the proxy server, but then opens up it’s own dynamic port in order to send data, and in order for it to be sending that data through Tor, it has to send it through the proxy server WHICH IT IS NOT DOING. So, although the initial connection is going through Tor, the actual data is notYou can check this by starting up a download and running a program called cPorts which tels you all active network connections, the dest ip/port, and the origin ip/port and you can see that your client actually sends the data over your IP, not through Tor
Tor is not intended for filesharing, as it has been stated repeatedly using it for such is considered abuse.However it is perfectly fine to use i2p for filesharing and it does real invisible bittorrenting.Though it requires you to run a i2p router and regular bittorrents are not supported. Yet it is still far better than depending on peerguardian, protowall, safepeer, and other such filtering methods that do not provide nearly enough real protection.With i2p your address is still known to other peers, but they don't know what your doing, if you are merely running a router or only checking the forums, hosts websites or whatever.With p2p there is a near absolute 1:1 likelyhood that a ip address is correct and that they or someone using their network is doing something illegal.With i2p filesharing there is a 1:x chance that a ip address could be involved, however it'd be very hard to prove. In this case x being the number of total online i2p peers. The larger the network the greater the x factor becomes.So far at most 5 percent of the network runs i2phex. Another unknown percent periodically does invisible bittorrenting over the network and another unknown percent actively hosts websites over it.At the moment at the very most depending on what kind of activity there is a 1:10 chance of a ip address being involved, with a very large amount of uncertainty.Tor does not even provide that much protection and is rather leaky in it's method. It is not vulnerable to cPorts or other simular methods.Even if you think you know a certain peer might be doing something, can you prove it? If you think you can, then how?Considering how many millions of filesharers are online, if just 0.25 percent were to join i2p, that'd be more than enough to provide a massive x factor to the network.Basically all that the network would really need to become big and gain an massive amount of content would be for one decent sized bittorrent group to move to it.
Not that I believe it should be used for torrent, it clearly says on there website "browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol.""Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system"communication is a broad term, who are you to say, "TOR is not for bit torrent (whinny voice)" Where does it say not to p2p, or to use irc just dont download thru it? maybe i havnt read the docs?
badtouchOct 12, 2005
That should be on a T-shirt slo'
bugmenot2Oct 13, 2005
I use SafePeer.
eatnumber1Oct 13, 2005
This is not entirely true, because when you have this set up, it sends the initial requests (HTTP or otherwise) throught the proxy server, but then opens up it’s own dynamic port in order to send data, and in order for it to be sending that data through Tor, it has to send it through the proxy server WHICH IT IS NOT DOING. So, although the initial connection is going through Tor, the actual data is notYou can check this by starting up a download and running a program called cPorts which tels you all active network connections, the dest ip/port, and the origin ip/port and you can see that your client actually sends the data over your IP, not through Tor
bitzOct 13, 2005
Tor is not intended for filesharing, as it has been stated repeatedly using it for such is considered abuse.However it is perfectly fine to use i2p for filesharing and it does real invisible bittorrenting.Though it requires you to run a i2p router and regular bittorrents are not supported. Yet it is still far better than depending on peerguardian, protowall, safepeer, and other such filtering methods that do not provide nearly enough real protection.With i2p your address is still known to other peers, but they don't know what your doing, if you are merely running a router or only checking the forums, hosts websites or whatever.With p2p there is a near absolute 1:1 likelyhood that a ip address is correct and that they or someone using their network is doing something illegal.With i2p filesharing there is a 1:x chance that a ip address could be involved, however it'd be very hard to prove. In this case x being the number of total online i2p peers. The larger the network the greater the x factor becomes.So far at most 5 percent of the network runs i2phex. Another unknown percent periodically does invisible bittorrenting over the network and another unknown percent actively hosts websites over it.At the moment at the very most depending on what kind of activity there is a 1:10 chance of a ip address being involved, with a very large amount of uncertainty.Tor does not even provide that much protection and is rather leaky in it's method. It is not vulnerable to cPorts or other simular methods.Even if you think you know a certain peer might be doing something, can you prove it? If you think you can, then how?Considering how many millions of filesharers are online, if just 0.25 percent were to join i2p, that'd be more than enough to provide a massive x factor to the network.Basically all that the network would really need to become big and gain an massive amount of content would be for one decent sized bittorrent group to move to it.
nacsOct 13, 2005
What a great way to abuse the Tor system.- NO digg.
lycolocoOct 13, 2005
Wish I could take my digg back...
flex411Oct 13, 2005
Not that I believe it should be used for torrent, it clearly says on there website "browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol.""Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system"communication is a broad term, who are you to say, "TOR is not for bit torrent (whinny voice)" Where does it say not to p2p, or to use irc just dont download thru it? maybe i havnt read the docs?
g_razorOct 13, 2005
Yes, because we all know that BitTorrent is mainly used for pirating music.... MPAA would seem like a more likely choice.
pacobellOct 14, 2005
@LycoLoco: You can. Try looking at your profile sometime...
keksovkeksJan 21, 2008
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