Mar 26, 2017, 19:10 pm
I spend two long hours this morning looking for a public wireless location that allowed the Bittorrent protocols. I
didn't find one.
Knowing the only other viable option was a VPN, I started researching the VPN options from home. I'm not talking about hypertext-based VPNs; I mean a service-based VPN for any protocol or transmission type.
The problem with a public VPN service is that they can't be trusted. Even if you are paying, they can't be trusted.
VPNs as governmental honeypots to capture IP addresses or track hackers. VPN dropouts or poor protocol encryption can lead to VPN transparency and your ISP can see what you are doing. Of course, the packets themselves, encrypted or not, are passing through your ISP's routers and they can track your activity. They know you are using a VPN, they know you are torrenting, but that just means you'll wind up on some FBI list.
So what is the goal? I just want to illegally download a few movies and/or TV shows. I'm the guy who is looking for a couple joints for the weekend, not make a life-long blood oath to some drug dealer. So what not just buy the few things I'm trying to download? Well, that is a good point, but at 15 to 25 USD for a single DVD, it is hardly worth it for the average movies they release these days. You know the kind, you want to see it; but once you do, you have wished you hadn't wasted your time.
So I don't want to pay for it. And it seems pointless to pay for a VPN for something I wouldn't want to pay for...
So, I can't torrent from home because I'll get sued. I can't use a VPN from home, because it isn't safe enough. That is, the VPN knows who I am because of my IP. Even if I pay with an anonymous credit card. There isn't enough to keep the VPN company from revealing my illegal torrenting(because it is surely against their usage agreement). So I can't VPN from home.
So, that leaves public wireless. Open public wireless that allows the torrent protocols seems very hard to find. So that leaves a VPN through a public wireless location. Free sounds good, but most free VPNs(or trial versions) block peer to peer protocols. The few that don't block torrenting have very limited downloading capping(around 500Mb to 2Gb per month). For some people, free is also a red flag as the VPN company needs to try to get their money somehow. Perhaps through advertisements, perhaps through your future business, but it could also be culling your data or your identity off of your computer through their VPN program. All they could get from me is the list of what I torrented. Big deal. You'd be a fool to do anything private or banking on the same computer you connect to the internet. Especially with internet-facing programs. If you are that dumb, you deserve to be hacked.
I *could* pay for a "respectable" VPN provider that allows torrenting, but I just don't torrent that much to make that cost effective. So that leaves me with no options.
I still torrent and seed things of extreme low risk. Most of which are more than 25 years old. But it looks like I'll never see Rogue One or play Far Cry Primal...
Jesus WEPPED. Judas used WPA2.
didn't find one.
Knowing the only other viable option was a VPN, I started researching the VPN options from home. I'm not talking about hypertext-based VPNs; I mean a service-based VPN for any protocol or transmission type.
The problem with a public VPN service is that they can't be trusted. Even if you are paying, they can't be trusted.
VPNs as governmental honeypots to capture IP addresses or track hackers. VPN dropouts or poor protocol encryption can lead to VPN transparency and your ISP can see what you are doing. Of course, the packets themselves, encrypted or not, are passing through your ISP's routers and they can track your activity. They know you are using a VPN, they know you are torrenting, but that just means you'll wind up on some FBI list.
So what is the goal? I just want to illegally download a few movies and/or TV shows. I'm the guy who is looking for a couple joints for the weekend, not make a life-long blood oath to some drug dealer. So what not just buy the few things I'm trying to download? Well, that is a good point, but at 15 to 25 USD for a single DVD, it is hardly worth it for the average movies they release these days. You know the kind, you want to see it; but once you do, you have wished you hadn't wasted your time.
So I don't want to pay for it. And it seems pointless to pay for a VPN for something I wouldn't want to pay for...
So, I can't torrent from home because I'll get sued. I can't use a VPN from home, because it isn't safe enough. That is, the VPN knows who I am because of my IP. Even if I pay with an anonymous credit card. There isn't enough to keep the VPN company from revealing my illegal torrenting(because it is surely against their usage agreement). So I can't VPN from home.
So, that leaves public wireless. Open public wireless that allows the torrent protocols seems very hard to find. So that leaves a VPN through a public wireless location. Free sounds good, but most free VPNs(or trial versions) block peer to peer protocols. The few that don't block torrenting have very limited downloading capping(around 500Mb to 2Gb per month). For some people, free is also a red flag as the VPN company needs to try to get their money somehow. Perhaps through advertisements, perhaps through your future business, but it could also be culling your data or your identity off of your computer through their VPN program. All they could get from me is the list of what I torrented. Big deal. You'd be a fool to do anything private or banking on the same computer you connect to the internet. Especially with internet-facing programs. If you are that dumb, you deserve to be hacked.
I *could* pay for a "respectable" VPN provider that allows torrenting, but I just don't torrent that much to make that cost effective. So that leaves me with no options.
I still torrent and seed things of extreme low risk. Most of which are more than 25 years old. But it looks like I'll never see Rogue One or play Far Cry Primal...
Jesus WEPPED. Judas used WPA2.