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How likely is it that my ISP is limiting me because im a pirate?
I used to be able to download items from torrent sites like "The Pirate Bay" using "Limewire"or "Bit torrent" but now I cant? I will look at the torrent site and it will say like 15 seeders and like 1 leecher or something good like that but my Limewire and Bittorrent says that I have no seeders or peers and will stay at 0% forever? What is going on? Will the RIAA drop by my house any second to arrest me? Is my ISP screwing me over? Am I just doing something wrong?
And I am using The Pirate Bay to download the torrents.
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12 years ago
Yarrrrrr me laddie
12 years ago
Thank you very much you guys, but I decided to stop file sharing for moral reason. And no im not saying anyone is a thief its just my beleifs. Thanks anyways!
Reply 12 years ago
there is so much stuff whose creators want it to be shared. i think you got your decision too fast
hints
http://creativecommons.org
http://ocremix.org
12 years ago
the thing you need is called peer guardian
it blocks connections from "bad" companies FBI
but it's not really what you are looking for....
do you have a router? unblock a port, and download thru there..
on bittorrent, click the exclamation mark, on the bottom of the window
12 years ago
It could be the ISP, mine was blocking utorrent and I had to switch to Vuze. Try to find something with a huge amount of seeders and try that. Also your ISP is probably sharing bandwidth with your neighbors. Try to download something at 12 am and see if it changes. Also sites like pirate bay only refresh the trackers like every 4 hours. So that file might have been popular 4 hours ago everyone has went to bed or done downloaded it,
12 years ago
. Your ISP is probably blocking P2P traffic for everyone. Try this Google search and you may be able to figure out a way (change ports?) to get around the block P2P +ports. Or search for "P2P blocking".
12 years ago
possible. use tor to surf but dont overload it with filesharing
see if a friend with the same isp has the same sites blocked
is tkgold from the image blocked too ?
Reply 12 years ago
hahaha no its just a stock picture of a blocked website, my ISP so far hasnt blocked any web sites.
Reply 12 years ago
switch to another app and fileshare some legal stuff only for a while. see if you are blocked again try to change ports