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    5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    With anti-piracy outfits and dubious law-firms policing BitTorrent swarms at an increasing rate, many Bittorrent users are looking for ways to hide their identities from the outside world. To accommodate this demand we?ll give an overview of 5 widely used privacy services.

    With an increasing number of BitTorrent users seeking solutions to hide their identities from the outside world, privacy services have seen a spike in customers recently. Below we?ve listed some of the most-used services that allow BitTorrent users to hide their IP-addresses from the public.

    The services discussed in this post range from totally free to costing several dollars a month. The general rule is that free services are generally slower or have other restrictions, while paid ones can get you the same speeds as your regular connection would.
    VPN

    Hundreds and thousands of BitTorrent users have already discovered that a VPN is a good way to ensure privacy while using BitTorrent. For a few dollars a month VPNs route all your traffic through their servers, hiding your IP address from the public. Some VPNs also offer a free plan, but these are significantly slower and not really suited for more demanding BitTorrent users.

    Unlike the other services listed in this article, VPNs are not limited to just BitTorrent traffic, they will also conceal the source of all the other traffic on your connection too. BTGuard, StrongVPN and Itshidden are popular among BitTorrent users, but a Google search should find dozens more. It is recommended to ask beforehand if BitTorrent traffic is permitted on the service of your choice.
    BTGuard

    BTGuard is a proxy service that hides the IP-addresses of its users from the public. The service works on Windows, Mac, Linux and as the name already suggests, it is set up specifically with BitTorrent users in mind. Besides using the pre-configured client, users can also set up their own client to work with BTGuard. It works with all clients that support ?Socks V5″ proxies including uTorrent and Vuze. In addition, BTGuard also includes encryption tunnel software for the real security purists.

    After these words of praise we?re obligated to disclose that BTGuard is operated by friends of TorrentFreak, but we think that should be interpreted as a recommendation.
    TorrentPrivacy

    Torrentprivacy is another proxy service for BitTorrent users, very similar to that of BTGuard. It offers a modified uTorrent client that has all the necessary settings pre-configured. The downside to this approach is that it is limited to users on Windows platforms. TorrentPrivacy is operated by the TorrentReactor.net team and has been in business for more than two years.
    Anomos

    ?Anomos is a pseudonymous, encrypted multi-peer-to-peer file distribution protocol. It is based on the peer/tracker concept of BitTorrent in combination with an onion routing anonymization layer, with the added benefit of end-to-end encryption,? is how the Anomos team describes its project.

    Anomos is one of the few free multi-platform solutions for BitTorrent users to hide their IP-addresses. The downside is that it?s not fully compatible with regular torrent files as Anomos uses its own atorrent format. Another drawback is that the download speeds are generally lower than regular BitTorrent transfers.

    On the uTorrent Idea Bank, more than 1,600 people have asked for the Anomos protocol to be built in to a future uTorrent build, making it the second most-popular suggestion overall.
    Seedbox

    A seedbox is BitTorrent jargon for a dedicated high-speed server, used exclusively for torrent transfers. With a seedbox users generally get very high download speeds while their IP-addresses are not shared with the public. Once a download is finished users can download the files to their PC through a fast http connection. FileShareFreak periodically reviews several good seedbox providers.
    Shhht

    And then there?s Usenet.

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    Re: 5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    I think very soon it will all come built into the download torrent software (free) otherwise people wont be clicking on anything on those sites, Hidden Content , = no money for them at all, people would just move onto the next best thing, I betYa any money its all built in soon. need to wait n see though, Hidden Content .

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    Re: 5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    Seedbox ftw Hidden Content
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    Re: 5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    I maybe being thick here but does using any of these also block so your isp cant see what your downloading?
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    Re: 5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    Seedbox in my opinion is the best as you download the file to the server and then to get it off the server you use sftp to get it on your pc so they have a major headache seeing what your up to.
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    Re: 5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    Hidden Content Originally Posted by DessertDog Hidden Content
    I maybe being thick here but does using any of these also block so your isp cant see what your downloading?
    BTGuard/ torrentprivacy
    seem to hide i.ps for a fee.

    would be easier just to use usenet with ssl encrytpion?


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    Re: 5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    With isp s starting to block torrent ports and usernet port especially vermin media it is becoming more and more difficult to download anything. Thats why for me a seedbox is the best way as its safer and more reliable as far as im concerned. Ive not used usenet but i know vermin media are throttling traffic from them so i know that is pointless maybe not now but very soon it will be.
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    Re: 5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously

    Hidden Content Originally Posted by DessertDog Hidden Content
    I maybe being thick here but does using any of these also block so your isp cant see what your downloading?
    they (whoever it may concern) will always be able to see what your downloading if they really wanted to dig deep enough mate, you will never be hidden, only way to maybe do it and remain untraced is using a mobile device that is unregistered and move about quite a bit and even at that they could still narrow the signal down to a specific area, but thats you going overboard, Hidden Content , most of the time if its just normal cinema movies etc then it wont even raise an eyebrow, but as mentioned in here, for certain isp's its gettin a bit more difficult and no doubt the clamps will tighten down soon for us all but as I said earlier, there most likley will be free software that gets round this problem soon as its needed, afterall they want us clicking on thier sites dont they, if we dont click click click then theres no money money money for them, Hidden Content , simple as that.

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