privacy
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loki
Re: privacy
It's mostly a fear and intimidation tactic, I wouldn't be worried personally, I've actually had a message forwarded to my personal email address from my ISP telling me to pay "some website" in order to settle a copyright infringement "out of court" needless to say this was more than a year ago and I've seen nothing since.
In the US at least, ISP's are required to send you these messages if they are valid or not in order for them to be on the side of the law. Beyond this they don't have to provide anything to who/whatever claimed the copyright infringement event unless by court order, after they decide to prosecute... but then also... however, legal documents must be sent in physical form via registered letter, email is not a legally binding document of any kind.
Though never perfectly secure ever... you can also do things such as, set up a peerblock program or a list within qB, set and enable encrypted connections in either torrent client, and join a private tracker and stop using public trackers (privateer gulf...?).
For a somewhat unbiased article about btguard see, http://torrentfreak.com/make-bittorrent ... rd-100419/
In my opinion of BTGuard, if you're going to pay for something might as well just sign up to usenet instead. (It's more direct, certainly faster, and don't have to worry about sharing with/to others)
In the US at least, ISP's are required to send you these messages if they are valid or not in order for them to be on the side of the law. Beyond this they don't have to provide anything to who/whatever claimed the copyright infringement event unless by court order, after they decide to prosecute... but then also... however, legal documents must be sent in physical form via registered letter, email is not a legally binding document of any kind.
Though never perfectly secure ever... you can also do things such as, set up a peerblock program or a list within qB, set and enable encrypted connections in either torrent client, and join a private tracker and stop using public trackers (privateer gulf...?).
For a somewhat unbiased article about btguard see, http://torrentfreak.com/make-bittorrent ... rd-100419/
In my opinion of BTGuard, if you're going to pay for something might as well just sign up to usenet instead. (It's more direct, certainly faster, and don't have to worry about sharing with/to others)