How paranoid are you?

When I first started downloading, I felt uploading was the bigger problem, so I wouldn't seed at all after my download completed in order to avoid getting in trouble. After a few weeks I felt a bit more comfortable with downloading and uploading.

My dad got a few notices while downloading through dht or something in the Vuze client. I helped him out as soon as I heard. I think being in NY with a fast home connection means we're more likely to connect with bad peers. That fact plus the fact that my career path would be put in jeopardy if I were caught make me relatively careful.

At first I used smaller sites. Then I stopped liking smallish sites for reasons other than their security benefits. Now I tend to use newsgroups more. But I like bigger swarms and have used some insecure torrent sources. I'm a bit concerned about using Pretome because I know there are tons of US users and I could be an easy target.

With dvr and the fact that I'm downloading a lot fewer movies, so I feel I'm not putting myself at risk as often. Very soon I won't be downloading at all. Once I graduate I'll just reopen netflix.
 
Not paranoid at all. I've recived a letter from my Isp about 4 years ago or so for downloading "Tupac resurection" and my brother warned me to not download anytihng again.

What did I do? I downloaded another movie the next day.
I did so because I know they can't do shit about it. There's probably millions of Optimum online users in NYC and 90% of them download illegally

I'm not gonna lie though. Once when I smoked weed(i dont smoke weed much so it's effects are strong on me) I started thinking about BT and I remember being paranoid and thinkingthat I was being watched and the feds were waiting for the perfect moment to bust me.

It was terible..that's why i hate smoking weed
 
The fact that my isp only keeps ip-logs for like 48 hours or something like that makes me feel as secure as I can be. Except for using seedboxes or VPN i don't see how you can take any precautions that gives you more than just false security. SSL means nothing, atleast in Sweden, since evidence is collected by logging the direct transfer of files between peers and APB (the anti-piracy bureau).
 
Thing is. All connections eighter html, vnp, vpc and can be listened to.

My point is that if everyone is into the dirtiest smut possible, and we are winning, noone will vote for any of that democratically. We will then go by the issues!

We will all go down if secrets happen! ;)
 
killzone08085 said:
I try to stay under the 250 gb a month flag from comcast so i don't get a letter.....
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According to a bandwidth meter that I use, I used up 429GB in one month. My household has received no letter.

Out of curiosity, I went to check my bandwidth meter again just now, and I've used 573GB since the beginning of this month, which I know can't be right. I went to the weekly reports, and during one week, it says that I received 269GB and sent 268GB. And the day-by-day report shows that I received 261GB and sent 260GB in one day. I know this can't be right though, since I only have a few gigs left on my HD (hence I haven't been downloading anything), and there isn't enough that I would want to download to accumulate that much in a week. I'm guessing the first time that the meter said I used 429GB was also a mistake, which could be why I received no letter. I think I'll be switching meters though... :ermm:
 
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