Like everyone is saying, get a VPN. I highly recommend a paid VPN. I pay something like $40 a year for PIA. doesn't matter what server i connect to, in what country, It's very fast, and they also provide server side ad blocking.
The way they catch you downloading a torrent is like this. a company like Nintendo hires a company that provides a service protecting their content. said company will find torrents with their content. they will download it and then allow themselves to become part of the upload pool. when you go to download that content via a torrent you complete a so called handshake with the uploaders. during this handshake you exchange information needed to complete the P2P connection. among this information is each others IP address. they will lay low for a week or two then they will send out notices to the ISPs of each IP who downloaded the torrent. The ISPs have to at least show that they sent you a letter in case the content provider tries to take them to court saying that they allow their customers to pirate software.
The way a VPN works is that when you send information to a website your pc first encrypts the info and then sends it to the VPN server. that server then dencrypt it and sends it to the website server. then that website sends the info to the VPN server, who then encrypts it, and sends it to your pc. then your pc decrypts it. so whether its someone streaming a torrent to you, or a website, the only IP they ever see is the IP of the VPN. that's why its important to use a VPN that doesn't keep logs. That almost always means getting a paid VPN.
The way they catch you downloading a torrent is like this. a company like Nintendo hires a company that provides a service protecting their content. said company will find torrents with their content. they will download it and then allow themselves to become part of the upload pool. when you go to download that content via a torrent you complete a so called handshake with the uploaders. during this handshake you exchange information needed to complete the P2P connection. among this information is each others IP address. they will lay low for a week or two then they will send out notices to the ISPs of each IP who downloaded the torrent. The ISPs have to at least show that they sent you a letter in case the content provider tries to take them to court saying that they allow their customers to pirate software.
The way a VPN works is that when you send information to a website your pc first encrypts the info and then sends it to the VPN server. that server then dencrypt it and sends it to the website server. then that website sends the info to the VPN server, who then encrypts it, and sends it to your pc. then your pc decrypts it. so whether its someone streaming a torrent to you, or a website, the only IP they ever see is the IP of the VPN. that's why its important to use a VPN that doesn't keep logs. That almost always means getting a paid VPN.
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