You pack the letter inside another envelope and send it to a friend. That friend unpacks the original letter and sends it on from somewhere else. The post office sees the letter but there is no link to you and that letter. This is similar to how a VPN works. For a more detailed description of how a VPN works, read this.
The bit torrent protocol is not illegal. It is merely a transport mechanism for peer to peer networks. It is what you transport using bit torrent that can be illegal.
There are many legal uses for bit torrent. Some big games publishers use it to download games or large updates. Many Linux distributions are downloaded using bit torrent. Manu enterprise organizations share large files using bit torrent. It is a very efficient way of sharing large files. You just maker the file available, provide a magnet link and let people manage it themselves. When you torrent, your IP is shared with a number of other users who help you to finish the file by sending you pieces of it that they've already downloaded.
In turn, you send them back the pieces you have, and everyone ends up with a completed file in the end. Copyright holders looking to get their lawsuit on might join a download and log the IPs of everyone they come in contact with. Public trackers, such as The Pirate Bay , are where these phony downloaders go to mine for IP addresses. Because these sites don't verify anyone's identity, and there are no restrictions on what downloads you can join, it's next to effortless for a company to jump in and grab some IPs.
Now obviously, because popular torrents might have thousands of people connected to it at any time, the odds of them choosing your IP to go after is slim, but why take the risk? Private trackers such as Demonoid now shut down and BitMe provide an extra layer of protection by requiring users to register, and are often invite only to help keep those unwanted corporate presences.
This might be a lot less convenient than browsing the public sites, but once you're in, the odds of getting caught go down significantly.
And if you have any friends who download regularly, one or two of them might have some spare invites to go around. If you really can't scrounge up an invite to any of these private communities, the least you can do is check the files before you download.
Almost every reputable torrent site has space for user comments on the download page. Always, always read these before putting any foreign files on your computer. Not only is there the obvious and omnipresent virus threat, but some "clever" companies seed fake torrents holding tracking malware.
Make sure to carefully scan the comments to see if anyone has found anything suspicious about the files, and if the torrent has no comments, it's probably your best bet just to avoid it. Here's where it gets slightly more technical. Because companies are joining in on downloads to grab IPs, their own IP addresses are also available. By downloading and installing a free program called PeerGuardian2 , you can stay one step ahead of them by blocking known "bad" IPs from connecting to you. It takes a little while to get it up and running, but the installation and setup walk you through the process.
Their site occasionally goes down, so if the application isn't available through their official links, SourceForge hosts mirrors of it you can use in the meantime. This is probably the worst way to protect yourself, as it violates the "community spirit" of BitTorrent. But let's be honest, if it's between community spirit and a fat lawsuit, I'd rather err on the side of caution.
It's true: No one reads anymore. Especially pirates, it seems. You won't find many books on the direct download sites, but there are tons of torrent packs—every Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction, for example—and the good news is that book files are super light.
So, if you want to reproduce every book on your bookshelf on your Kindle, it won't take much time to download them at all, if you can find them. Then you've just got to get them on your reader. That's the easy part. Calibre is an ebook sorting app that also doubles as a Kindle-cracking hack machine. What makes it so great? It converts any ebook, no matter its format, into formats any ereader can use.
For example, the Kindle is the most locked-down ereader. Have you ever heard of Usenet? Maybe in passing, but chances are you've never sunk your teeth into it. Basically, it's a group of decentralized servers that host content.
And a lot of it's pirated content. Here's our explainer on Usenet from a few years ago. It remains a mostly unmonitored, hyperspeed playground with early access to downloads and content. It also remains an esoteric horror show for the average user.
Unlike the other methods, you do have to spend some cash. Clients are free, but access to a service—think subscribing to Rapidshare, only if Rapidshare had access to what was uploaded to every direct download site—that'll cost you. Then you'll also have to track down a service to search through files called NZBs—basically, the index of what's actually out there. Yeah, there are legitimate reasons to download things illegally.
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Now Myfastfile will download the file you have selected for you, and you can download it straight from their servers. After telling Myfastfile to download a torrent for you, you will have around 3 to 6 days always different for some reason to download the file to your computer safely and without letting anyone know.
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