The importance of staying anonymous while downloading files through BitTorrent network is one of the most discussed question of today. Various anti-piracy companies invest high budgets into copyright fight against all torrent sites. BitTorrent users search for a way to hide their identity from the third-parties while they download files from torrent trackers. We show the best five ways to protect your privacy.

VPN

Thousands of BitTorrent users already discovered a VPN as a possibility to hide the traffic from Internet Service Providers by protecting of their private IP address. There are many VPN free providers, but if you wish to get full advantages of the connection then a cheap account can help.

Using VPN you will be able to encrypt not only BitTorrent traffic, but the full data transferred from Internet to your home computer. Some of the most popular VPN service are BTGuard, Torguard or PrivateInternetAccess. The average monthly price for a VPN account is between $5 and $10 depending on your needs.

BTGuard

BTGuard made its name while offering a proxy service for BitTorrent network. Using it will help to hide your IP address from the world. The service is available for all operation system like Windows, Mac or Linux, can be easily set up and works with all BitTorrent or Usenet clients. BTGuard offers also a tunnel software that is able to encrypt all data transfer between you and the world.

TorrentPrivacy

TorrentPrivacy is another one proxy service that we can recommend for all our visitors. It worls in the similar way as BTGuard and offers already modified uTorrent client with configured settings. TorrentPrivacy is a service created by the owners of TorrentReactor and can be used with Windows operation system. Since two years in business the service gathered strong community of loyal BitTorrent fans.

Anomos

Anomos is a free solution for BitTorrent users to protect their privacy by hiding an IP address from the public. The service creates own multi-peer-to-peer protocol that is based on BitTorrent’s distribution system. Anomos anonymizes the file distribution through end-to-end encryption. The developers launched own a torrent format that works separately from regular torrent files. The download speed is lower as with BitTorrent, but the team works on improving it in the next releases. Thousand of users already made a request for the development team of Anomos to integrate it into popular torrent clients.

Seedbox

Under Seedbox we understand a dedicated high-speed server that can be used for downloading of files from BitTorrent network. The file will be first transferred to this server and, after it’s completed, user transfers the content from Seedbox to PC using a fast http protocol. In this way the IP address will not be shared with the public and user will nowhere shown as downloading peer. Using Seedbox also provides very high download speed.

Usenet

Usenet network is the main alternative for BitTorrent protocol. If you would like to download much files without being monitored then you probably should know how Usenet works. Usenet is not free, but if you get a premium account then you can download files with high-speed and under SSL encryption. In last ten years of Usenet history there was no any case where a Usenet provider would share with personal details of their customers. To start using it you would need two things: a Usenet client and an NNTP account - both can be used together to download files.

Originally Posted by Blitz

The importance of staying anonymous while downloading files through BitTorrent network is one of the most discussed question of today. Various anti-piracy companies invest high budgets into copyright fight against all torrent sites. BitTorrent users search for a way to hide their identity from the third-parties while they download files from torrent trackers. We show the best five ways to protect your privacy.

VPN

Thousands of BitTorrent users already discovered a VPN as a possibility to hide the traffic from Internet Service Providers by protecting of their private IP address. There are many VPN free providers, but if you wish to get full advantages of the connection then a cheap account can help.

Using VPN you will be able to encrypt not only BitTorrent traffic, but the full data transferred from Internet to your home computer. Some of the most popular VPN service are BTGuard, Torguard or PrivateInternetAccess. The average monthly price for a VPN account is between $5 and $10 depending on your needs.

BTGuard

BTGuard made its name while offering a proxy service for BitTorrent network. Using it will help to hide your IP address from the world. The service is available for all operation system like Windows, Mac or Linux, can be easily set up and works with all BitTorrent or Usenet clients. BTGuard offers also a tunnel software that is able to encrypt all data transfer between you and the world.

TorrentPrivacy

TorrentPrivacy is another one proxy service that we can recommend for all our visitors. It worls in the similar way as BTGuard and offers already modified uTorrent client with configured settings. TorrentPrivacy is a service created by the owners of TorrentReactor and can be used with Windows operation system. Since two years in business the service gathered strong community of loyal BitTorrent fans.

Anomos

Anomos is a free solution for BitTorrent users to protect their privacy by hiding an IP address from the public. The service creates own multi-peer-to-peer protocol that is based on BitTorrent’s distribution system. Anomos anonymizes the file distribution through end-to-end encryption. The developers launched own a torrent format that works separately from regular torrent files. The download speed is lower as with BitTorrent, but the team works on improving it in the next releases. Thousand of users already made a request for the development team of Anomos to integrate it into popular torrent clients.

Seedbox

Under Seedbox we understand a dedicated high-speed server that can be used for downloading of files from BitTorrent network. The file will be first transferred to this server and, after it’s completed, user transfers the content from Seedbox to PC using a fast http protocol. In this way the IP address will not be shared with the public and user will nowhere shown as downloading peer. Using Seedbox also provides very high download speed.

Usenet

Usenet network is the main alternative for BitTorrent protocol. If you would like to download much files without being monitored then you probably should know how Usenet works. Usenet is not free, but if you get a premium account then you can download files with high-speed and under SSL encryption. In last ten years of Usenet history there was no any case where a Usenet provider would share with personal details of their customers. To start using it you would need two things: a Usenet client and an NNTP account - both can be used together to download files.

does that mean the download on private trackers doesn't count on our ratio? isn't that cheating? o.O

Originally Posted by kyomitsiro

does that mean the download on private trackers doesn't count on our ratio? isn't that cheating? o.O

the above instructions have no relation with your ratio
the point is to hide your actual IP address while downloading, seeding or even while browsing the tracker

isn't the new ssl encryption used with most of the trackers will hide your ip adress and make u anonymous??

Originally Posted by beTo

the above instructions have no relation with your ratio
the point is to hide your actual IP address while downloading, seeding or even while browsing the tracker

oh i see mate, still pretty confused but anyway i understand better now lol

If you don't plan on downloading too much, you wont even have to pay for a good VPN. Free VPN's have restrictions, but they are still useful.

Originally Posted by leadercr

isn't the new ssl encryption used with most of the trackers will hide your ip adress and make u anonymous??

All SSL does is encrypt the data over the "wire". This means someone you are connecting to could still gather your ip address because you are connecting to them. For example if I was trying to intercept data between two BitTorrent users one a client and one a host (seeder) if they were both using SSL I wouldnt be able decrypt any of it and it would be useless. But the host and the client can both see who they are connected to because it is required to make the connection.

could you add TOR browser to this? I'm not sure if when downloading through TOR if your real ip is shown or your "TOR " Ip is used. if anybody knows I'd be interested in knowing as I use tor for several things. speeds have gotten betters since two years ago