Utorrent and Bittorrent problems
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I paid for both Utorrent and Bittorrent.
It is a completely legitimate concern about Utorrent and Bittorrent giving out IP addresses. THIS site doesn't give out any information at all. everything is anonymous (other than if you let people see what you have uploaded and downloaded.. and even then, it doesn't identify your ip address). Utorrent and Bittorrent don't seem to have a problem with broadcasting IP and DNS information.
I mentioned it on Utorrent.. and got called stupid and paranoid and the topic was closed immediately by DreadWingKnight.
I mentioned it again on Utorrent, and got called an idiot.
I mentioned on Utorrent that even if I was wrong (which I was not), it was not acceptable for their staff to call a paying customer "paranoid", "stupid" and an "idiot". This DreadWingKnight is probably the 12 year old son of the programmer of Utorrent who is running the forums (into the ground) for his daddy. I also mentioned that it was unacceptable for them to close the topics the instant I posted them. I got a reply saying it was acceptable to call me an idiot, and they banned me. Guess who won't be renewing their Utorrent Plus subscription - which is worthless anyway?I then went to the Bitttorrent forum. Same company, program is functionally identical, but programmed in a different way. Bittorrent tends to be a little slower, but far more stable. Anyway.. I asked them the same question. And instead of an answer, got got banned from their forum.
The people at Utorrent/Bittorrent keep saying that there is nothing you can do about it. Well, for starters, it would be nice if the Utorrent and Bittorrent programs didn't freely display your IP and DNS information to everybody else torrenting the file. Even if it is not possible to hide, why make it EASY for them? And why insult people who ask, and ban them from posting?
One bit of protections is that since so many millions of people are torrenting, they can't effectively go after torrenters. There is an episode of the TV show MAS*H like this. They have someone getting an illegal nose job, and they decide to find the person by seeing who has their nose bandaged up. So.. everyone in the camp (including a dog) has a bandage on their nose so they can't isolate one person!
There IS something called IPFilter which is supposed to fix the problem. I am going to test that out and if it works I will post it here in the utilities section. In the meantime, if you have a minute, click on HELP and FORUMS in your Utorrent or Bittorrent client, and ask them why they don't remove the display of IP and DNS information from their program. I think they need to be reminded about 732 times before they will do anything about it. So far, I have done about 7 of those. :cheers:
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First thing: What ever your Profile privacy setting on GayTorrent.ru is, including the lowest "normal" (lower than "low"), only you and torrent staff can see your torrent activity. As well registration e-mail and login or torrent client IPs are visible only to very few of the staff, most staff can't see them.
Regarding the display of the peer IPs in the torrent client:
- "Normal" user can't do much with an IP, most likely they get only information who your ISP is when trying to search it.
- "Professional" spies will use special versions of torrent clients if normal version won't display IPs, if they don't do it already
The problem with torrents is that the client programme needs to know the other peers IPs to connect to them. Independently from if they display the IP or not. Not displaying the IP might only lead users to think it is invisible, but it isn't. Any client connected to a tracker or a swarm (via DHT for example) will know the IPs of the other peers.
If you are concerned about your privacy and don't want to stp using torrents, invest in a VPN service. Many members here say good about PrivateInternetAccess (40 USD / year). Note the VPN service can know all your traffic (but that doesn't mean it is logging it). So you have to trust that service provider …
