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Learn to hide your torrent IP (and torrent activity) with this step-by-step guide. Their software is extremely easy to install and use, and IPVanish has servers all.
- By design VPNs hide your IP address simply because a VPN acts like proxy. And the server you are communicating with, in your case a torrent network. Hide users online activities from ISP and support effectively torrent download.
- Unlike websites, which rely on a central server to store files, BitTorrent stores files. Now that you know your IP address is hidden, download the.torrent file.
- If you’re simply looking to stay safe online, hide your IP address, and download with the fastest available speed, the server assigned to you by default is an ideal choice. If, however, you have a specific geographical location in mind, make sure to choose the server manually.
With these 5 ways you can download Torrents without anyone ever knowing
Recently, there is an increase in privacy services sought by customers due to the spike in the number of BitTorrent users looking for ways to keep their identities secret from the outside world. Discussed below in the post are services that are completely free to the ones that cost several dollars a month. While the paid services can get you the same speeds as the regular connection would, on the other hand, free services are normally slower or have other limitations.
Listed below are some of the most-used services that allow BitTorrent users to hide their IP-addresses from the public.
Why Would You Want To Do Anonymous Torrenting?
Although, torrenting isn’t illegal itself, but downloading copyrighted material on BitTorrent is considered illegal. Copyright holders are aware of this fact and actively seeks people who share their copyrighted work. As for torrenting without encryption, it reveals your true identity and IP address, and can they track your ISPs and launch complaints against you and your ISPs, in turn, throttle your internet speed, sends you warning letters on copyright’s holder’s behalf. In worst cases, takes you to civil court for compensation (in theory at least). To avoid such penalties and to download torrents anonymously is to encrypt your BitTorrent traffic.
VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK)
VPN is viewed as a good way to ensure privacy while using BitTorrent as found out by many BitTorrent users. You can route all your traffic through VPN servers, hide your IP address from the public by paying just a few dollars a month. While there are some VPNs that also offer a free plan, but these are considerably slower and not suitable for more demanding BitTorrent users.
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VPNs unlike the other services are not just limited to BitTorrent traffic, they will also hide the source of all the other traffic on your connection too. VPNs that are popular among BitTorrent users are BTGuard, Torguard and PrivateInternetAccess, but you should be able to find a lot more on Google search. It is suggested to ask in advance if BitTorrent traffic is allowed on the service of your choice.
BTGUARD
BTGuard is a proxy service that hides the IP-addresses of its users from the public. As the name already suggests, the service works on Windows, Mac, Linux, which is configured explicitly with BitTorrent users in mind. Users can also set up their own client to work with BTGuard besides using the pre-configured client. It works with all clients that support “Socks V5? proxies including uTorrent and Vuze. Additionally, for the real security purists, BTGuard also includes encryption tunnel software.
TORRENTPRIVACY
A similar service to that of BTGuard, Torrentprivacy is another proxy service for BitTorrent users. With all the necessary settings pre-configured, it offers a modified uTorrent client. However, the service is limited to users on Windows platforms, which is the flipside of this approach. In business for more than two years, TorrentPrivacy is operated by the TorrentReactor.net team.
SEEDBOX
Used for torrent transfers exclusively, a seedbox is BitTorrent jargon for a devoted high-speed server. Users normally get very high download speeds with seedbox while their IP-addresses are not shared with the public. The users can download the files to their PC through a fast http connection once the download has completed.
ANOMOS
The Anomos team describes its project as “Anomos is a pseudonymous, encrypted multi-peer-to-peer file distribution protocol. It is based on the peer/tracker concept of BitTorrent in combination with an onion routing anonymization layer, with the added benefit of end-to-end encryption.”
Anomos is one of the few free multi-platform solutions for BitTorrent users to hide their IP-addresses. However, as Anomos uses its own atorrent format, it is not fully compatible with regular torrent files, which is the downside of this service. Another disadvantage is that the download speeds are normally lower than regular BitTorrent transfers.
More than 1,600 people have asked on the uTorrent Idea Bank for the Anomos protocol to be built in to a future uTorrent build, making it the second most-common suggestion in general.
This would be frustrating to vpn users if it’s true. I have Astrill and I am always confident that my torrenting is safe with it. Please update us on this one!
BitTorrent isn’t the quiet haven it once was. These days, everyone’s looking to throttle your connection, spy on what you’re downloading, or even send you an ominous letter. If you use BitTorrent, you absolutely need to take precautions to hide your identity. Here’s how to do that with a simple proxy.
This post originally detailed the setup of a proxy called BTGuard. Since its original publication in 2011, we’ve changed our recommendation to Private Internet Access due to BTGuard’s slow speeds, bad customer service, and other difficulties. If you’re still interested in using BTGuard, you can find instructions on their web site.
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You have a few different options when it comes to hiding your BitTorrent activity, but we’ve found that a proxy is the most convenient and easiest to set up, so that’s what we’re going to cover here. We’ve talked about proxies a few times before, most notably with our original guide on how to set up BTGuard our guide to safe torrenting post-Demonoid. Unfortunately, BTGuard has never been a great service—it was just the most convenient. Thankfully, Private Internet Access—one of our favorite VPN providers—now provides a proxy very similar to BTGuard, but with faster speeds and better customer service. So we recommend using it instead, using the instructions below. If you don’t want to use a proxy, check out the end of the article for a few alternative suggestions.
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How a BitTorrent Proxy Works
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When you download or seed a torrent, you’re connecting to a bunch of other people, called a swarm. All of those people can see your computer’s IP address—they have to in order to connect. That’s all very handy when you’re sharing files with other netizens, but file sharers such as yourself aren’t necessarily the only people paying attention. Piracy monitoring groups (often paid for by the entertainment industry either before or after they find violators) also join BitTorrent swarms, but instead of sharing files, they’re logging the IP addresses of other people in the swarm—including you—so that they can notify your ISP of your doings.
A proxy (like Private Internet Access) funnels traffic—in this case, just your BitTorrent traffic—through another server, so that the BitTorrent swarm will show an IP address from them instead of you. In this case, Private Internet Access’ proxy server is in the Netherlands. That way, those anti-piracy groups can’t contact your ISP, and your ISP has no cause to send you a harrowing letter.
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But wait, can’t the piracy groups then go to the anonymizer service and requisition their logs to figure out what you’re downloading? Theoretically, yes, but if you’re using a truly good anonymizer, they don’t keep logs, so there’s no paper trail of activity leading back to you. All the piracy monitors see is a proxy service sharing a file, and all your ISP sees is you connecting to a proxy service. If you encrypt your BitTorrent traffic (which we recommend), your ISP won’t even be able to see that you’re using BitTorrent.
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Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, there are a few downsides. Most notably:
- Anonymity isn’t free. Well, at least the ones worth using aren’t. Private Internet Access costs $6.95 a month or $39.95 a year. That isn’t very expensive, though, and it’s well worth it for the privacy you get.
- You’ll get slower download speeds. Running your connection through another server inevitably slows you down, though how much depends on what torrent you’re downloading, who from, and a lot of other factors. In my experience, more popular torrents stayed at their top speed of 3.4 MB/s (my bandwidth cap) with a proxy, while other less popular torrents slowed down from 1 MB/s to about 500-600 kB/s. Your mileage may vary. I lost significantly less speed with Private Internet Access than I did with BTGuard, though.
- Not every BitTorrent client supports proxies. uTorrent for Windows works great, but Mac and Linux favorite Transmission sadly does not support proxies. You’ll have to use something like Deluge instead (or try one of the alternatives listed at the end of this article).
- Nothing is foolproof. Using a proxy may bring you increased anonymity, but nothing is guaranteed unless you avoid BitTorrent entirely.
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Ready to get started? Here’s what you need to do.
How to Set Up the Private Internet Access Proxy
Setting up a proxy is actually very simple, and just involves signing up for a service and checking a few boxes in your BitTorrent client. We’ll be using Private Internet Access and uTorrent for Windows for this guide, but you can tweak things to fit your own setup pretty easily.
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Step One: Sign Up for Private Internet Access
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Private Internet Access is primarily a VPN provider. We’ll talk a bit more about VPNs later in this post, but what we really want is the SOCKS5 proxy that comes with their VPN service. So, head to Private Internet Access’ web site and sign up for their VPN service. We recommend starting out with a monthly plan to see if you like it before buying a whole year’s subscription.
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Once you’ve signed up, Private Internet Access will email you your username and password. Log into the system with those credentials, and change your password from the client control panel.
Step Two: Generate a Proxy Password
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Your account credentials are only to manage your account—we’ll need a new set of credentials for the Proxy service. In the client control panel, click the “Generate Password” button under “PPTP/L2TP/SOCKS Password.” This is what we’ll be using to configure our BitTorrent client. Write down the username and password that appears here (it’s different than your regular account credentials) and move on to step two.
Step Three: Configure Your BitTorrent Client
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Next, open up uTorrent and head to Options > Preferences > Connection. Under Proxy Server, choose Socks5 under “Type” and enter the following information:
- Proxy Type: Socks5
- Proxy Host:
proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com
- Proxy Port: 1080
- Username: Your Private Internet Access Proxy username (from step two)
- Password: Your Private Internet Access Proxy password (from step two)
Check all of the other boxes under “Proxy” and “Proxy Privacy.” Your Connection preferences should look exactly like the image above.
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Step Four: See If It’s Working
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To ensure that it’s working, head over to Torguard’s IP Checker. This site can tell you what your IP address is, and compare it to the IP address of your torrent client, which will let you know whether your proxy is working correctly. To test it, hit the “Generate Torrent” button, and open the resulting torrent in uTorrent. Then, go back to your browser and hit the Refresh button under the “Check IP” tab. If it’s the same as your browser IP—which you’ll see next to the Refresh button—then your proxy isn’t working, and you’ll want to double-check all of the above settings. If it shows a different IP address (which should be in the Netherlands), then Private Internet Access is successfully tunneling all your traffic for you.
Other Ways to Anonymize Your BitTorrent Traffic
A proxy like Private Internet Access is the most convenient way to anonymize your traffic, but it isn’t the only way. If you want to try something else, here are a few other tricks we recommend.
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Use a VPN
A virtual private network (or VPN) is very similar to a proxy, but instead of rerouting just your BitTorrent traffic, it reroutes all your internet traffic. For some people, that’s a good thing—it gives you privacy all over the web. However, it can also be inconvenient, navigating you to different web pages for that VPN’s country or causing issues with streaming services. If you have a NAS, you can set up your VPN on it to route only your NAS traffic, which is a perfect option for downloading anonymously. VPNs are about the same price as most proxies, and I personally have found that I get better speeds with most VPNs than I do with a proxy.
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Unlike proxies and VPNs, seedboxes don’t route your BitTorrent traffic through another country. Instead, you actually rent a dedicated server that resides in that country, and do all your torrenting through that machine. They usually have insanely fast speeds, and if you’re on a private tracker, they’ll seed 24/7, giving you a great ratio. Once you download a torrent on your seedbox, you can just connect to it via FTP and download the file as fast as your home connection allows. Note that seedboxes also require a bit of extra setup, and some may require a little command line work to get running.
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Ditch BitTorrent Altogether
Your last alternative is to try a new file sharing service entirely, like Usenet. It offers encrypted connections and doesn’t connect to peers, so others can’t track what you’re doing. It doesn’t always have the selection that BitTorrent has (depending on what you’re downloading), but it offers a ton of other advantages, most notably higher speeds and better privacy. Check out our guide to getting started with Usenet to see if it’s right for you.
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