Quote:1st of July 2012 is when the largest effort of the US to fight piracy – the six-strike regime – will start. The system represents the collaboration between the largest country’s Internet service providers and the entertainment industry, represented by the MPAA and RIAA.


The list of participating ISPs includes Time Warner Cable, Comcast, AT&T, Cablevision, and Verizon. The 6-strike system mainly focuses on copyrighted content located on BitTorrent networks.

However, there’s something that raises not just morality questions, but also the legal ones. The matter is that the entertainment industry in cooperation with ISPs is planning to be the judge of all digital material without letting anyone to check on them.

In addition, they believe that the BitTorrent network is facilitating the infringement of copyrighted content, which seems to be one of the most ridiculous ideas to many. However, instead of pinning every drawback of the graduated response regime, wee may offer you four convenient ways to circumvent it.

1. VPN services. When the entertainment industry is scanning open P2P networks, your IP address is both vulnerable and easy to track. You can mask your IP address by subscribing to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) – this will hide your real IP from all public view. Moreover, VPNs don’t keep logs, so there won’t be any trail to track.
2. Proxy services. They are quite similar to VPNs, but they do not re-route online traffic through a number of remote servers, which simply hide specific programs and protocols.
3. Seedbox services. In case you want to be 100% secure, check out a seedbox, which provides anonymity by downloading torrent files to some remote machine not attached to your IP address. When the download is ready, the content will be transferred to the user’s PC without BitTorrent’s involvement. Such seedboxes offer fast connection speeds.
4. Private networks. As it was said above, the entertainment industry will scan open P2P networks, including servicers like The Pirate Bay. However, aside from open networks, you can also find private trackers staying under the radar and keeping you safe.

Other alternatives include obsolete utilities like the Internet relay chat (IRC), Usenet, Freenet Project, and digital storage lockers.

By:
SaM
June 11th,2012

(02/07/2012 10:15 PM)Grey Ghost Wrote:  NZ has terrible "broadband" internet. MY internet speeds vary between 100 - 200KB/s a second. That's 1/10ths to 2/10ths of 1 MB.

(02/07/2012 07:25 PM)Mr. Shizzy Wrote:  As I said earlier, there are ways around things such as these.
I found this little read to be interesting:

• Look into unencrypted torrents? - BT encryption is an easy workaround
  
• Detect you visiting torrent tracker websites such as TPB?  Technically doesn't constitute piracy since you can visit a site without actually downloading, but I wouldn't be surprised if they simply don't care.  Bypass would be through any open proxy / Tor.
  
• Monitor tracker activity?  This seems somewhat pointless, as it's basically the same as what law enforcement is doing already.  I believe the idea of this deal is to push the cost of this enforcement onto the ISP, but I really can't see an ISP taking such an initiative in doing this (exception is those which have principle interest in the film/recording industry)
  
• Or maybe they decide to target DDL websites instead of torrents?  This is perhaps the only feasible thing with a relatively reasonable success rate that I can think of.  But, historically at least, DDL hasn't gone into the spotlight as much as BT.  But perhaps with MU taken down, this has changed?