Comments on: Anonymize BitTorrent Transfers with BTGuard

By: styxone

styxone — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:29:55 +0000

it's true man
they must build more jail for us coz we don't care
and the bit torrent is free why to pay for that

By: holoverse

holoverse — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:06:50 +0000

btguard does not work any more since almost all trackers banned it due to IP Spoofing or other problems, and has not worked properly for quite some time now.

They also don't respond to emails for assistance.

Complaints have been lodged with Paypal for false and deceptive advertising of a non-working service.
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Don't waste your money
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By: notdman

notdman — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:13:02 +0000

I'm using BT currently and seeing around 150kb/s

By: Jo3Shm0

Jo3Shm0 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:51:34 +0000

I just started using BTGuard a few days ago. It's been working really well up until new year's eve. Today is the 3rd and that shyte is still down man! I ping them and it's forever "Request Timed Out". I'm paying $7 for nothing. I emailed them twice but nay on the response. WTF!

By: Jack Mehoffer

Jack Mehoffer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:13:56 +0000

These comments are some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever read!

By: dman

dman — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:06:59 +0000

They target PRIVATE trackers.

It is because, paying for torrenting is REALpiracy. Free torrenting, is not, according to the Telecommunications Act of 1996…

information wants to be free :)

By: annoyed

annoyed — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:15:13 +0000

Where is the free trial? The link to the free trial page only takes you to a purchase page. What a scam.

By: Snowbird

Snowbird — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:20:54 +0000

Well, well,

What a discussion here at the other end of the world…
In Europe we have the same problems with legal downloading, etc, etc.
What about hiding your IP-addresses with hideyouripaddress or sthng like that?

By: In Paranoia There Is Safety

In Paranoia There Is Safety — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:24:24 +0000

No, you’re being cautious. BTW, BTGuard is on the Bluetack/Peer Guardian blocklists. So, for those using this “service”, you’re not going to connect to anyone that filters IP’s.

By: trev1604

trev1604 — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:56:35 +0000

Is anybody else concerned by the following?

1) there is very little info about them on the web

2) nothing pre-dates March 2008

3) certain discussion groups contain hints of possible “honey trap”

Am I just being more paranoid than normal?

By: space

space — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:08 +0000

works –
actually my speed increased

By: bigfoot1

bigfoot1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:12:02 +0000

I signed up to bt guard.so many clients do not allow tracker connections in the u.s.
My expierience…that the same torrents underway were imediatly open to a butt load of trackers…speeds went way up,tho not,”amazing”Also…my secondary internet use speed has increased dramitacally(throtteling?)finally…the peace of mind of privacy for my legal downloads…2 cups of good coffee a month…I am a fan so far and recomend giving it a go

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:19:27 +0000

Hmm. Well, if and when one of our ISPs gets us, and prevents one of us from seeding.. then we’ll do something about it… mebbe try out this service… until then, screw them.

By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:17:49 +0000

Anyone know any usenet providers not based in the USA or Canada??

By: naakaab

naakaab — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:23:41 +0000

i hope this works..what 5 bucks u talkin about

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Protect Your Privacy When Downloading [Feature] · TechBlogger — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:42:08 +0000

[...] most likely see a speed drop, and sometimes it’s a very significant drop. According to the TorrentFreak weblog, though, BitTorrent transfers with BTGuard are almost equal to a direct connection—meaning [...]

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By: Ducky

Ducky — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:24:42 +0000

I dont see anywhere to get this “free” trial mentioned

By: WTF

WTF — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:43:40 +0000

[quote comment="307516"]#8, you’re a *lot* safer on a private tracker. They usually only bother with public trackers (so far). In fact, I haven’t heard about someone being busted on a private tracker. Prove me wrong on that (hopefully, you can’t, though).[/quote]
Umm Oink…..

By: TheGooch

TheGooch — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:58:35 +0000

[quote comment="308172"][quote comment="307854"]GUYS,
This service doesn’t say no one can snoop on your traffic; people still can, they admit that.
This service doesn’t say you will not get in legal trouble, because that is always a possiblity.
This service DOES say, if you are being blocked from downloading by your ISP, then this service should be able to bypass that.

Its that simple; if your ISP is screwing with your torrent, these guys can probably help you. That’s all they are saying, no more, no less. [English isn't rocket science!][/quote]
Actually, they do say right on their site that they protect you from your ISP. They cannot do that by using a plain text method.

Nor can they prevent any throttling based on actual packet inspection. Because it’s all plain text, packet inpection will still show you up as using bittorrent. Many ISPs use ellacoyas for DPI to prevent bittorrent use. Sandvine is not the only nasty out there.

As for their argument that “Your ISP doesn’t sniff your packets to find you out”, they obviously have no clue how things work at various ISPs. If they did, then they would know 3 of the biggest UK ISPs are about to start copying all traffic passing over port 80 for the purposes of targetted ads (including the traffic you now send through this proxy). Once this happens, the BPI can make a very easy case for copyright infringement tracking being the responsibility of the ISP as they are no longer merely conduits for data. The UK govt has already threatened legislation if the ISPs cannot come to an agreement with the BPI.

ISPs in other countries have to comply with draconian government regulations which this does nothing to protect against.

A VPN or SSH tunnel protects you against both ISP monitoring and mafiaa monitoring. They state in their comment above that they are working on an SSH solution.
If they truly believed their own crap about ISPs not looking at packets, they would not be building an SSH solution.[/quote]

Actually, ever since I started using them, the throttling has stopped working and I am getting deceent download speeds from my dorms ISP. So maybe its time to backpedal…eh?

By: TheGooch

TheGooch — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:09:58 +0000

I just got my trial username/password for this and set it up on uTorrent. Ever since the school dorms I live in switched ISP’s, my Web and BT traffic has been horribly slow, we are talking download speed of .7k, but usually 0. If I fire up eMule or Ares, traffic is better, but still not stellar.

So, with this proxy, my speeds have went up to 50k, which I haven’t seen for months. I dunno about you guys, but for me, that is worth $5/month. I wish I could just switch ISP’s, but the dorm management controls the provider. Hopefully I’ll be seeing > 100k speeds soon :)

By: fork

fork — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:20:40 +0000

[quote comment="310887"]
He is actually right. The Outgoing Traffic is routed through the btguard-proxy but you still get incomming directly from the seeders. Which kinda is the whole Problem with filesharing. VPN saves you some trouble there. vpntunnel.co.uk was recommended here some time ago and seems to be a bit overloaded at the moment, but will be back to faboulus hopefully soon.[/quote]
Actually you’re wrong, I tested it myself and you can too. Start a BT transfer, run “netstat -n -b”, and you’ll see that you’re only connected to there server.

By: Privateer

Privateer — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:02:42 +0000

Any service that doesn’t allow anonymous payments I would avoid like the plague.

If you pay by credit card, paypal, echeck or any other kind of fiat currency you’re screwed.

For financial privacy, cash and digital gold are the only options.

By: Hannes

Hannes — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:46:31 +0000

der[quote comment="307824"][quote comment="307804"]Guys, open your eyes: Even if you’re using a proxy, all the incomming connections are completely unanonymized!
Check it out yourself: Download Netlimiter or a similar program and take a look at the connections your Torrent-Client establishes. You’ll see that a lot of connections are not send through the proxy.

Proxys DON’T make you anonymous in the P2P-networks. Only VPN does that, because it forces ALL connections to go through it.
So please, don’t pay them a cent – It’s a scam![/quote]

Dude your an idiot and a troll.[/quote]

He is actually right. The Outgoing Traffic is routed through the btguard-proxy but you still get incomming directly from the seeders. Which kinda is the whole Problem with filesharing. VPN saves you some trouble there. vpntunnel.co.uk was recommended here some time ago and seems to be a bit overloaded at the moment, but will be back to faboulus hopefully soon.

By: BTGuard

BTGuard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:34:45 +0000

As promised I’ve added the ability to add an encrypted tunnel yet maintain the pro of only having it effect your BT downloads. You can find the encryption option now under the install menu.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:39 +0000

Take a look at my del.icio.us bookmarks, I collected some interesting (mostly G7-offshore) VPN providers:

http://del.icio.us/CDrewing/relakks

By: Neelesh

Neelesh — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:01:31 +0000

I should add this to my list of protection.

I had previously written an article on bittorrent protetion. Take a look,http://neel-ug.blogspot.com/2008/01/protect-yourselves-from-bittorent-evils.html

By: niki4

niki4 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:14:08 +0000

another hoax. and as stated above. demonoid was based in Canada and was shut down so don’t bother paying for some lame program. you can use vidalia. it’s free and it does the same thing. And by the way. if you pay than a money transfer will be involved aka personal data. you will be a sitting duck than. dont be stupid people.

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:20:40 +0000

at 93. what trackers?

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:22:11 +0000

You people disgust me!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:47:44 +0000

I’ve gotten my share of threatening emails when i’ve used private trackers.

By: ace hall

ace hall — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:44:58 +0000

“Cashing In on Naive BitTorrent Users”

By: aydin1954

aydin1954 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:51:10 +0000

RSS Feeds do not work with this.

By: h33t

h33t — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:18:01 +0000

why btguard hide their identity?

they are registered in the USA with an anonymity service … why must they hide?

By: coyo7e

coyo7e — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:27:50 +0000

It seems that, since you must (eventually) pay for the service, that simply by checking your or BTGuard’s financial records, it would be arguable that you were paying for illicit services. Makes me think twice about their service.. :(

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:21:59 +0000

relakks is based in sweden, new european law says that traffic data has to be kept for 6 month = not safe

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:19:00 +0000

They log massively and keep the logfiles for 6 month

—

torrentfreak should write a review about

http://swissvpn.net/

price/month: 5$ ~3.26â‚¬
connectable: yes
location: Switzerland

By: lskjfei

lskjfei — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:08:23 +0000

@13

as the dollar plummets more people invest in it meaning we actually come up so heralding that as the downfall of americas economics is showing how big of an idiot you are.

By: Try this

Try this — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:24:51 +0000

VPN don’t slow me down

By: Try this

Try this — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:23:44 +0000

http://www.torrentfreedom.com/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:30 +0000

Um…Oink???

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:47:52 +0000

It may be Canadian, but WHOIS is pointing the finger at the US for all info….

And what’s the deal with the BT Guard website?? It looks like it was designed to look like a late 90′s website!

I smell a Honeypot….

By: system

system — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:21:35 +0000

[quote comment="308456"] in america theres this protective law called “entrapment” so if they set a “trap” for you to do something illegal, not only can they not charge you, but they get in some serious trouble. [/quote]
Another one falls for that old myth.

Not only is entrapment limited to law enforcement or its agents (which the RIAA/MPAA are not), but simply offering a service in which they collect your details while you commit a “crime” would not be anything like entrapment. It would be called a sting operation, and stings are perfectly legal.

*IF* this service has links to any rights holders, they could very easily bring civil cases against you.

By: Big D

Big D — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:17:09 +0000

My guess is that the bandwidth with a proxy service is probably relative to the capping ISP already put on Torrent Downloads.
You’d get better use wiping your ass with that $5!!!

By: malik sambaj

malik sambaj — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:25:01 +0000

and this people garantee that no canadian asshole will get those datas????!!!!

By: john rambo

john rambo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:23:27 +0000

wich part of “i want to pay as little as i can to as little entities as i can” do this people don’t understand.

i pay for internet so that i don’t pay for movies, music and games.

By: R2

R2 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:00:58 +0000

With 4.75 Euro per month i could buy most of the junk porn i download…
For me only free services are good enough.

By: bitches

bitches — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:58:24 +0000

those who are complaining about having a repository of info aren’t so bright. Your ISP has a repository of your info that you are putting out in the open by using your IP. At least this way your behind a Canadian IP from people who seem to care a little more about your privacy then your ISP does.

By: bitches

bitches — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:54:18 +0000

quit bitching about paying for something, especially to route bittorrent traffic. I agree this isn’t a revolutionary idea for P2P, we do need a way to anonymize but maintain a BT type design that’s free. But this is an excellent patch to get some through until that day for those getting pressured by their ISP!

By: Anon2112

Anon2112 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:51:59 +0000

Thanks, but no thanks.

Anyplace that has a repository of my personal info can and will give it up to authorities under enough pressure.

I prefer not to pay someone $10 a month to store all my info in a convenient location. My torrent downloads through comcast are fine (they are time warner infrastructure here, they just have the comcast name thusfar)