I’ve been torrenting for ever. On and off ever since limewire and bearshare we things. I’ve never really had an issue before, but several months ago I fell asleep and was seeding all night. Of course I got a notice then. After that I’ve been very careful to shut down immediately when the torrent is finished, but I got 2 more notices. Its almost like they have me flagged or something. They’re all from the same company. I started using express vpn…I got my 4th notice this morning. Any advice would be appreciated. TIA
Try using the killswitch feature if you aren’t already. Express VPN should have one.
*1 Never have the torrent program start with Windows.
*2 Always have the VPN on before the torrent program
*3 Check ipleak.net to be sure your IP has changed.
*4 Always turn the torrent program off before the VPN.
Check the task manager to be sure it’s completely off.
Bind the network interface from the torrent client to your VPN adapter. It blocks traffic from outside the tunnel. VPN killswitches sometimes aren’t fast enough in poor network conditions
Did you force the use of the VPN in the torrent client network settings?
You must be doing something wrong, the only reason your ISP would send you a notice, is if your public IP was in a torrent swarm, in turn a copyright holder will send a notice to your ISP, and then them to you… if you see your downloads here: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ …
…then you are not using the VPN properly with your torrent client.
Use a seedbox. I use whatbox.ca and they handle any copyright claims by allowing me to download said content from their server, then deleting the torrent and files from their server. This really only happens with public trackers as well, so I would try my hand at getting into some private trackers.
Make sure you delete your browsing data and cookies before using ExpressVPN, otherwise, the websites can tell who you are.
I wonder if they are keeping track of you by monitoring which torrents you are seeding. Like say the company is monitoring 1000 movie torrents, and you are actively seeding 19 of those torrents. The chances are really slim that someone else is seeding only those same exact 19 out of 1000 torrents as you are. So once they got your exposed IP address, they fingerprinted your seeding torrents to that address. So now whatever vpn address you seed with, they trace it back to your exposed ip.
Use a VPN. Set up a kill switch with it so that if your vpn crashes it kills the torrent. Use qborrent and set up a connection using socks5. I know NORD VPN allowed both of these connections. And I think express does to? Not sure on the last one. But both of those being set up you will be good for many many many TB of torrents. Never have your torrent client turn on before your vpn. And shut down your client before you close the vpn as well.
Check yourself out with DoILeak.com, especially the Torrent IP Leak test. I found that my machine was leaking my IP both through IP4 UDP and through Torrent DNS calls when using one of the “lifetime” VPNs (KeepSolid VPN Unlimited).
I don’t have that problem when using a better, fully paid and competent VPN (TorGuard).
These results were not caught by any of the normal VPN IP leak tests, so I give much credit to DoILeak.com for helping me figure out whey I was getting copyright infringement notices from my ISP.
Try to disable LPD in your torrent app. LPD broadcasts all your torrents to everyone in the local network. So tools like Torrent downloads and distributions for IP 144.91.105.199
https://ipleak.net Test your torrent client for IP leak and other can not see this activity. I guess the ISP can see this traffic.
can you give me a dummy version of the killswitch (what it is and how to use one?)
This is the way. Seriously good list. But you did forget one important thing:
*5 Always look over your shoulder to make sure no one is looking!
By far the safest way to torrent with a VPN. I’d give 10 upvotes if I could
when I click on the link…it doesn’t show any downloads
That has nothing to do with torrenting though.
Are you sure this is the case?
good to know…thank you
I’m not sure…I only consistently download the challenge on mtv…it comes on every Wed…and that’s the one they keep popping me for…nothing else ever
If you use the socks5 connection you do not have to have the vpn software on, it logs into the vpn servers through that connection. That way you can do your normal work while you don’t have to worry about your torrents.