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

[KevinLSX]

Wow this is a lot of good advice. Thankyou.
I checked for a vpn like most of you recommended and first result was Nordvpn and they are having a sale. $2.75/month for 3 years. Do any of you recommend it or should I keep looking?

Thanks again to all of you.

 

[Kioku]

Wow this is a lot of good advice. Thankyou.
I checked for a vpn like most of you recommended and first result was Nordvpn and they are having a sale. $2.75/month for 3 years. Do any of you recommend it or should I keep looking?

Thanks again to all of you.

Honestly I don't care for Nord. That's because I game on my VPN. Nord seems to have some large inconsistencies when it comes to their servers. For downloading and streaming it works well enough. It's actually a highly recommended VPN.

 

[the_randomizer]

Go with pia then. They've had fbi requests for logs and had nothing to hand over, so their "no logs" has been tested.

Alternativly come over here (UK), where they've given up with the stick and use the carrot just have some nonsense campaign where you get asked not to do it and told where to get it legally. Beyond that there is nothing anymore, no details handed over and no limit to how many times they politely ask you not to

I've stopped using torrents a long time ago, I don't trust many of them to be free of malware, Trojan viruses, no amount of reassurance will convince me to use them again.

 

[Kioku]

Even if the VPN relinquishes logs to government agencies and anti-piracy organizations?

ExpressVPN and PIA have never been in a situation like that. You have to research and ask questions. There are too many free ones and shitty ones that just want your money.

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I've stopped using torrents a long time ago, I don't trust many of them to be free of malware, Trojan viruses, no amount of reassurance will convince me to use them again.

I agree. I hate torrenting. Especially nowadays where the bigger hosts are being shut down or taken over with viruses.

 

[KevinLSX]

Honestly I don't care for Nord. That's because I game on my VPN. Nord seems to have some large inconsistencies when it comes to their servers. For downloading and streaming it works well enough. It's actually a highly recommended VPN.

I dont plan on using a vpn for gaming.Nord is the cheapest ive seen so far and I just need one to hide my downloads. Are you sure Nord can hide what im torrenting from my ISP?

 

[nl255]

I dont plan on using a vpn for gaming.Nord is the cheapest ive seen so far and I just need one to hide my downloads. Are you sure Nord can hide what im torrenting from my ISP?

For torrenting you need a VPN service that supports port forwarding if you want to get decent speeds. The last time I checked, NordVPN didn't have that. I can personally recommend either PIA or Mullvad. Note that with PIA you only get one port and PIA does not have stealth so your ISP can see that you are using a VPN (though they can't actually see what you are doing with it, only that you uploaded X MB and downloaded YMB over said VPN within the past Z hours). The last time I checked PIA was also slower than Mullvad but that could have changed. However PIA is cheaper and has been proven in court to not have any logs while nobody has tried to obtain logs from Mullvad in court yet. Also keep in mind that PIA is in the US where it is vulnerable to being compromised by FVEY (Five Eyes) though of course the CIA/NSA are not going to care about anything as petty as bittorrent activity.

 

[KevinLSX]

For torrenting you need a VPN service that supports port forwarding if you want to get decent speeds. The last time I checked, NordVPN didn't have that. I can personally recommend either PIA or Mullvad. Note that with PIA you only get one port and PIA does not have stealth so your ISP can see that you are using a VPN (though they can't actually see what you are doing with it, only that you uploaded X MB and downloaded YMB over said VPN within the past Z hours). The last time I checked PIA was also slower than Mullvad but that could have changed. However PIA is cheaper and has been proven in court to not have any logs while nobody has tried to obtain logs from Mullvad in court yet. Also keep in mind that PIA is in the US where it is vulnerable to being compromised by FVEY (Five Eyes) though of course the CIA/NSA are not going to care about anything as petty as bittorrent activity.

Ive been checking out 2017 reviews and saw that they recently improved their download speeds with only 2-4mbps difference from your non vpn speed.

 

[nl255]

Ive been checking out 2017 reviews and saw that they recently improved their download speeds with only 2-4mbps difference from your non vpn speed.

Well then I would go with PIA unless you regularly use public wifi with your phone/tablet/laptop and want to ensure that you can still use your VPN even if said public wifi tries to block OpenVPN connections. Or if you think you will want to bittorrent and run some other internet accessible server (sftp for transferring files to your phone/tablet, game server, or to access your playon stuff remotely if you use playon) as PIA only gives you a single port while Mullvad lets you have multiple ones.

 

[Sheimi]

I won't use torrents because most seem to be filled with viruses. I was throttled for playing a game and downloading a game through steam. A pirated dl was full speed.

 

[Tigran]

Again.. Just use direct download. Avoid torrents.

 

[Skyshadow101]

Use a VPN or seedbox

Wouldn't a seedbox use the same internet to download things, though?

 

[jDSX]

Wouldn't a seedbox use the same internet to download things, though?

No they use their own ISP somewhere else to get you the whole torrent complete then you use FTP setup to get the files into your hdd or external hdd with encryption (hopefully you set one up by this point)

 

[Mikemk]

I won't use torrents because most seem to be filled with viruses. I was throttled for playing a game and downloading a game through steam. A pirated dl was full speed.

Actually, Steam does that to prevent issues in multiplayer games. There's an option in steam settings to download full speed while playing games.

 

[godreborn]

I don't like using torrents either, but sometimes you're left with no choice. I don't download them from anywhere but private trackers (in case it's a virus), and I always read the comments beforehand just in case.

 

[Joom]

I won't use torrents because most seem to be filled with viruses.

I sincerely want to know where people keep finding infected torrents. I mean, are all of you just bad at torrenting? I've been downloading them for over a decade and have only came across one that was legitimately infected. Release groups typically pack their cracks and keygens to protect them from being reverse engineered, which sets off anti-viruses. Do your own analysis and never rely on an AV because they tend to be wrong.

 

[the_randomizer]

I sincerely want to know where people keep finding infected torrents. I mean, are all of you just bad at torrenting? I've been downloading them for over a decade and have only came across one that was legitimately infected. Release groups typically pack their cracks and keygens to protect them from being reverse engineered, which sets off anti-viruses. Do your own analysis and never rely on an AV because they tend to be wrong.

I'm more curious as to know how safe they really are before you download them.

 

[Joom]

I'm more curious as to know how safe they really are before you download them.

They can't do anything to your system just by being downloaded. If you're suspicious of anything just upload it to Malwr or Hybrid Analysis. They'll give you an in-depth analysis and tell you exactly what the binary does to your system when executed.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

I'm more curious as to know how safe they really are before you download them.

No less safe than a direct download. It doesn't matter whether your .iso for whatever video game comes from a torrent site or is directly downloaded. Both are equally susceptible to viruses. It all depends on where you get the files (or what users you get the files from). All these anti-torrent people, at least with virus arguments are just fear-mongering. At least the people who are anti-torrent from a p2p security/privacy point of view have a valid point.

 

[therealhoothoot]

If you want to use public trackers, just get a put.io account. It's a torrent cloud service that downloads all your torrents for you on their server and then you can download it from the browser and nobody will know that it came from a torrent tracker initially.

I find it better than a seedbox because most files are already downloaded by other users so they instantly pop-up in your storage space.

Edit: woops, did not see it was from November, 2017. My bad