Torrent question

Torrent question.


Assuming I download on torrent (and I do)


1. Any tracker I use, will lead me eventually to same torrent global download network? There is only one?


2. When MPAA want to locate torrent users, all they can do is download their own content from the network, and see who else is there? Meaning the only way I am traceable is by picking a movie and locating the users?  Of course all assuming MPAA has no access to log files of the network or tracker.


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Yes. That's why MPAA has no way to see you are downloading their movies if you are part of a closed invite-only video downloading network. Though there is a chance that someone from the MPAA would get themselves invited in that community and sue everyone inside, I don't think MPAA cares to sue the relatively small amount of users in closed communities.

 

Once there is a p2p software that sends a file from one internet adress to another one, MPAA can thus always sniff the connection.

 Unless the p2p software is set-up to use part of some proxy connections and part of direct connections, and if everyone uses that software, this way MPAA would have no way to sue people for just serving as proxy to others p2p activity, and they'd have no way to prove that any specific person is actually "pirating" the content.

 Anyways, it is an impossible thing for MPAA, IFPI or any government to fight p2p "piracy". Thus their only chance is eigther to improve their content value, and completely change their business model, for example sell all their movies same day as theatre release for 1$ per download or some low price like that. But most probably that MPAA and IFPI and all the movie and music majors will soon be out of business, and that the winner will in the end be the artists and the consumers.


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There are IP filters that can prevent the MPAA and other organizations from connecting to you and this way they can't send you bad data or locate you.

PeerGuardian is one famous IP filter firewall that does that. 

As to a "torrent global download network" - this is something called DHT which is built upon the basic torrent software functionality, meaning that it's only an option to use it, and it doesn't replace the original tracker you must log into for downloading. So if you don't want to get global, just disable it in your preffered bittorrent software.

BTW, in Azureus there's a built-in IP Filter that can be expanded with a plugin called SafePeer
 


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