Is there still no Torrent replacement?
16 13 Dec 2016 20:39 by u/priva
We are living the era of copyright trolling and problems with ISP if using torrents. Still I have not encountered potential replacement for torrent protocol, that would hide IPs and possibly encrypt the communications. Of course everyone could just use VPNs with the torrent, but it's going to take quite long until the masses are aware of the need of a VPN connection to hide their IP. Until that the "normal users" are highly vulnerable to all sorts of dangers.
Is the only possible way to hide one's IP in P2P environment by tunneling the traffic through some other place like VPN or TOR, or could the software itself encrypt the connection informations so that users or monitoring softwares could not extract the IPs out of it?
8 comments
3 u/Picard 13 Dec 2016 21:16
Just use a vpn. You only need to protect yourself with the method, there is no reason to have every single person protected, and on most torrent sites they warn that vpn is a very good idea. And I mean by putting a big flashing banners that say: USE A VPN YOU F#€×ING MORON.
That and torrent data will always be illegal to track due to our own government using bit data transfer (which torrents are built off) for communications. So it does the government good to have us transferring bits.
There is some fuckery that may go down with VPNs but for now they are the best option.
1 u/glugglug 13 Dec 2016 23:19
Can you recommend a torrent client that uses VPN without VPNing everything else on the host PCs internet connection?
1 u/vaginitis20161116 13 Dec 2016 23:33
most laptops have at least two interfaces, as do some desktop motherboards.
0 u/pewpewpewmoon 13 Dec 2016 23:19
Latching on to top post about VPN to add this :
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/
above all else you want a log-less provider outside of EU (sadly even USA is better, wtf). All the other fancy things you probably don't need if all you are doing is downloading movies and tv
2 u/Torchhead 13 Dec 2016 21:33
Usenet is a good alternative to torrent. There are some alternatives with cryptography like I2P, but they have never being popular or proven safe.
2 u/vaginitis20161116 13 Dec 2016 23:35
Usenet definitely gets far less attention by enforcement agencies. If you buy a subscription retention is good enough.
2 u/Baconmon 14 Dec 2016 00:36
You can use I2P with a compatible torrent client (like qbittorrent).. Although there won't be as many seeds.. But at least you won't be directly connecting to IPs directly that are sharing the content..
But yeah I agree that it would be nice to see a new system created that is specifically made to share stuff anonymously.. Torrents are kind of old technology and need some updating..
1 u/therealkrispy 15 Dec 2016 19:52
Gimme a couple months, it'll be ready for GitHub soon.