How to stop government from snooping on your torrents

Probably best to get a VPN of sorts, but that cost $ e.g. BTguard at about R80 or R90 a month. From my understanding PeerBlock only blocks known bad IP's. A snoop sitting on the same torrent can still see your IP if his IP is not on the list, so it seems like this might create false security for a user. I doubt the IP lists made available even include South African enforcement agencies.
 
Just relax! Torrents were invented by the ANC. Don't you people listen to your president?
 
Pity House is no longer around, he would told us how the guavamint could see through all of that
 
You think people would be more worried about private companies like RIAA and such spying on your torrents.... no... its big bad government *mufasa*... cause government really cares what movies you are pirating.

Dont use options like peerblock. If you want to remain anonymous, go buy a $5 vps and run ssh tunnel through it.
 
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Whats wrong with the encryption options that come with the torrent clients?

Its like the use of Tor. Sure they can see you using Tor (or in this case torrents), but they wont be able to see what you transfering.
 
Go to Options > Preferences > BitTorrent. Set Outgoing under Protocol Encryption to Enable, check "Allow incoming legacy connections".

This is really just obfuscation to assist you with ISP P2P shaping. Anyone checking the traffic can still find out what is being downloaded/uploaded. But why would they be sitting on your connection, actively monitoring a movie you are downloading? They won't/can't.
 
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Flojo said:
Whats wrong with the encryption options that come with the torrent clients?

Its like the use of Tor. Sure they can see you using Tor (or in this case torrents), but they wont be able to see what you transfering.
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Its not like tor. Its a light level of encryption, its not an anonymising service. They can still see that X IP made connections and downloaded from Y torrent. Especially if they have a honeypot in the swarm.
 
Flojo said:
Whats wrong with the encryption options that come with the torrent clients?

Its like the use of Tor. Sure they can see you using Tor (or in this case torrents), but they wont be able to see what you transfering.
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They are easily decrypted I believe.
 
A better solution, work to enabling things such as Netflix and Hulu. People are willing to pay for "watch online" services but SA sucks in offering these services (quality and price).
 
Why even bother with torrents? I use filesharing services.

WAY faster, convenient, no shaping worries, nothing...
 
Which Mall Gift cards? Canal Walk's one's won't work because I don't think they have a CVV.
 
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