Caught torrenting game. Cox temporary disabling internet. Advice/help?

[Joom]

Oh, and by the way there is no need to delete anything, just moving it is more than enough.

They can't see what's on the filesystem. That would be illegal. Also, the best VPN is the one you run yourself. I would never trust a commercial VPN to protect my shady activity regardless of how much advertising they throw at me. Also, Vuze has entirely too much overhead to be a practical torrent client. It's bloated to hell and back. Provided your system is properly configured to connect to your VPN the entirety of your traffic should be forwarded through it. You can do the same with TOR if you're a masochist, but the point is that you don't need these clients with "WE HAVE PLUGINS THAT MAKE YOU SAFE 100% 2018".

how are usenet prices theese days?

Affordable.

 

[godreborn]

astraweb is $96/year. I did have an account with thundernews for $5/month (they were having a black friday sale), but they lost my account information. :-/

 

[migles]

Affordable

thanks, very informative.. i was asking about, if a usenet costs like 5 bucks a year or 50 bucks a month, have no idea about prices theese days

 

[Joom]

thanks, very informative.. i was asking about, if a usenet costs like 5 bucks a year or 50 bucks a month, have no idea about prices theese days

They're not much different from twenty years ago. It all depends on the news aggregator you choose.

 

[godreborn]

well, the black Friday sale with thunder news I was talking about was $5/month for life. astraweb isn't bad either. I'm still with astraweb, but I bought a year, so maybe the year isn't up yet. either that or I'm getting free usenet. lol

 

[Cha0tic]

I use expressvpn and I’ve had no issues.

 

[Adeka]

As someone who rarely torrents I normally just use a proxy in the torrent client and stop seeding the moment it's finished

cyberghost vpn is good too, you get the full vpn experience but will auto shutoff the vpn after 3 hours. They also have a torrent thing but you have to pay for their premium service

 

[nl255]

They can't see what's on the filesystem. That would be illegal. Also, the best VPN is the one you run yourself. I would never trust a commercial VPN to protect my shady activity regardless of how much advertising they throw at me. Also, Vuze has entirely too much overhead to be a practical torrent client. It's bloated to hell and back. Provided your system is properly configured to connect to your VPN the entirety of your traffic should be forwarded through it. You can do the same with TOR if you're a masochist, but the point is that you don't need these clients with "WE HAVE PLUGINS THAT MAKE YOU SAFE 100% 2018".

However if your VPN connection drops then your torrent traffic will be routed through your regular internet connection and the other main alternative (qbittorrent) doesn't support binding only to a specific interface.

 

[Armadillo]

and the other main alternative (qbittorrent) doesn't support binding only to a specific interface.

qbitorrent has an option to bind to a specific network adapter now.

 

[Deleted User]

i got an email from comcast for violating a copywrite thing that doesnt even exist XD
i was torrenting one of my own things and just because i had bit torrent running they assumed i was pirating games and set me an email saying that i pirated dragon age orgions
even though what i was torrenting was a save editor i made for an old ios game that was made so you could never get alot of money unless you paid the dev alot of money
idk how a 500kb save file named SBSSE.zip is the same as a huge 2gb+ iso file
but ive switched to never using windows for torrents and only using transmission and now im able to torrent stuff without comcast saying im breaking non existant copywrites

 

[Pacheko17]

What the fuck.
The absolute state of American internet.
That shouldn't be legal, this is spying.

 

[nolimits59]

In france it's just Movies and Music (when it works x), i remember forgeting to stop seeding the Justice album, it took them 6 months to flash me , but they reset your "flash history" every 6 months without a flash with a maximum of 3 months betwen the date of the flash and the email, so you need to chill for 9 months when you get caught here)

 

[nl255]

qbitorrent has an option to bind to a specific network adapter now.

Yes but the last time I checked it didn't actually work.

 

[Armadillo]

Yes but the last time I checked it didn't actually work.

Doesn't seem to be an issue that effects everyone. Binding seemed to work fine here last time I used it. Without the vpn all connections stalled.

 

[P3Temp]

Some very good advice here!
As was said, use a VPN but remember that all of them keep logs no matter what so where you get into your personal and important stuff, bank account etc, it is better to switch the VPN off.
qBitorrent is the king of torrent clients nowdays so OP better ditch that Bitorrent which is filled with malware and it's nothing more than a spying tool. And don't get me started on Utorrent which is even worse.

 

[Lumince]

So what vpns would all of you suggest? I see a few of them have already been suggested, but I'm in America and want something that isn't £ or €
Unless I can't get past that for good no logging vpns

 

[Kioku]

Expressvpn is what I use. Private internet access is a good cheap one. Especially if you're just downloading.

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What the fuck.
The absolute state of American internet.
That shouldn't be legal, this is spying.

You can't tell me that the ISP can't reserve the right to log specific things. Just doesn't work. Especially to cover their tracks. If they're looked at as an easy access to illegal activity they'll have a nice target.

 

[Mikemk]

while I was in college, they sent a mass email saying that they had received over 10,000 complains of people downloading illegally. they set up a three strikes rule. I was using usenet, and I never got in trouble.

My college had a one strike policy. Get caught pirating with most majors, and permanently lose internet access. Get caught with a computer science or tech major, get expelled for an ethics violation.

What the fuck.
The absolute state of American internet.
That shouldn't be legal, this is spying.

It's not spying if you tell them you're pirating. Hence peer too peer.

So what vpns would all of you suggest? I see a few of them have already been suggested, but I'm in America and want something that isn't £ or €
Unless I can't get past that for good no logging vpns

I use PIA, and sometimes route tor through them.

 

[nero99]

Next time use a VPN. I recommend windscribe. $4 a month for unlimited data and leaves no trace of what you have been doin

 

[P3Temp]

So what vpns would all of you suggest? I see a few of them have already been suggested, but I'm in America and want something that isn't £ or €
Unless I can't get past that for good no logging vpns

Next time use a VPN. I recommend windscribe. $4 a month for unlimited data and leaves no trace of what you have been doin

All VPN keep logs. They have to protect against illegal activity. Just because you get no warning for torrenting does not mean that they are not logging you.