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Don't Get Busted for Filesharing: Tips to Keep You Free
TIPS 
Tags: downloading, file sharing, trouble, arrested, safty, security, online, internet
Here are some tips for keeping the fuzz off your back while downloading or file sharing. If you have any helpful info share it here!
| 1. | Use Private BitTorrent tracker sites: The first is fairly obvious and that is of the inherent risk of using public BitTorrent tracker sites instead of private members only ones. The risk stems from the fact that almost anybody can connect to the swarm and take a peek at your IP address. |
| 2. | Don't act as a "Supernode:" The RIAA has targeted subpoenas at users who allow their computers to be "Supernodes" on the FastTrack P2P System. Make sure your computer is not being used as a Supernode. |
| 3. | Try to use campus DC Hubs: The RIAA and MPAA have sued college students for using publicly-accessible file sharing networks, including systems like i2hub. However, with one particularly notable exception, the RIAA and MPAA have not targeted users downloading or uploading music over closed, college campus intranets -- in other words, students sharing with other students at the same school over the school's own network. |
| 4. | Use IM data transfer programs: Similarly, the RIAA and MPAA have not targeted file sharing through instant messaging systems, closed networks such as WASTE, and other sharing tools in which users can limit access by third-parties. |
| 5. | Use PeerGuardian: This handy tool blocks "harmful" IP addresses from connecting to your PC. Using a list that's regularly updated on Blocklist.org, it detects and closes connections from specified IP ranges. |
| 6. | Use Safe Peer: This handy Azureus plugin for BitTorrent users is similar to PeerGuardian in that it also imports a list of IP addresses from Blocklist.org to use as an IP filter before connecting to peers. |
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