Ben's Guide to Protecting File-Sharers

Ben's Guide to protecting File-Sharers from Going to Prison

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Sorry for the caps, Just a warning to protect you and me. Also you agree to accept this legal agreement when downloading/reading this so you won't hold me in court, since I don't control peoples actions.

I have studied some law enforcement tactics and they cannot convict you if you have no evidence, such as erasing your computer then reinstalling the operating system and use it like you did before so when cops confiscate your Computers they have no evidence to convict you of copyright infringement.

They can kidnap British citizens, extradite file-sharers from Canada, and probably Mexico, but if your computers erased and you used firewalls when you shared they might not be able to convict you.

I also recommend you use your own open Wi-Fi so that the cops will think the file-sharers used your Wi-Fi, trying to not get caught and your record will be swept clean.

But here are the main valuable tips cops and lawyers wouldn't want you to get:

1. Until you get a Subpoena you can erase/destroy the evidence, once you get a Subpoena if you attempt to destroy evidence you can get charged with Obstruction Of Justice and Tampering with evidence.

2. If your not accused of terrorism you cannot let police cops into your home until they have a search warrant. Always keep your computer away from your parents, family, roommates, and Wife because they can consent police to a search of your computer.

3. If you use encryption I recommend you use TrueCrypt because it uses AES Encryption, in fact you can use three encryption schemes such as AES, Twofish, and Serpent together. Cops can't force you to open the encryption container, unless they Use tactics such as torture, torture camps, Tasers, or Waterboarding, if that happens use the Hidden Volume function so you can show the police your not a file-sharers/downloading criminal so then your free to go.

4. Always try to encrypt your DATA, whether you use Tor, Hotspot Shield, SSH Services, Anonymous Proxy Services that guarantee your privacy that way cops can't spy on your traffic without using heavy encryption breakers which might disturb and mess up the internet ruining our economy as we know it so they have to let you use encrypted traffic.

5. When sharing a file to further protect yourself from prosecution share until you get at least 2 or 3 seeds then immediately stop seeding, then your IP Address will be taken off of other peers lists, it's not bulletproof but can further protect you from prosecution.

6. You could also use Tor or a trustworthy proxy to upload to file hosting sites like Mediafire, megaupload, rapidshare, mytempfile, or any other free hosting sites and share your data through there and post to warez sites, under proxy protection, that way your sharing IP will never be revealed.

7. You could possibly use Tor for Bittorrent because you can host hidden services so you could share anonymously through Tor using hidden

services:

In your Torrc file you see these configurations:

############### This section is just for location-hidden services ###

## Once you have configured a hidden service, you can look at the

## contents of the file ".../hidden_service/hostname" for the address

## to tell people.

##

## HiddenServicePort x y:z says to redirect requests on port x to the

## address y:z.

#HiddenServiceDir C:Documents and SettingsApplication DataTorhidden_service/

#HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

#HiddenServiceDir C:Documents and SettingsApplication DataTorother_hidden_service/

#HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

#HiddenServicePort 22 127.0.0.1:22

ok now we are gonna do some tweaking:

Say you use port 17492 for seeding to peers, in english that means sharing to people using bittorrent.

#HiddenServiceDir C:Documents and SettingsApplication DataTorhidden_service/

HiddenServicePort 17492 127.0.0.1:17492

So this is what you change in your torrc file.

I'm not sure if you have to also do HiddenServiceDir, if you do ask anyone who knows about Tor for help but whatever you do don't tell them your gonna use Bittorrent as a hidden service, otherwise they will refuse to tell you anything but file-sharing is wrong, and all that bla bla bla BS.

8. Always erase the free space of your hard drive every week or two times a week to prevent cops from finding deleted data. Also always erase your cache, cookies, MRU, and other tracks every day.

9. If you have a suspicion a police cop is going after you always get a small-as-it-can-be external hard drive and store all your computers data, then erase your computer, with over 10 overwrites, then restore your computer with a legally purchased operating system or restore disk, install tons of freeware and legal software, then hide the drive in an area the cops would never search, I recommend you put it in a waterproof-fireproof lockbox and burry it where your neighbors can't see you, or hide it underground and when the cops go through your door, they will only find a working computer, no copyright infringement, they search through your house, no evidence, and they cannot convict you of a crime, and also remember use a Wi-fi and tell the cops you can't control the airwaves and you try to warn people to use your Wi-fi legally, and then your off the hook.

10. Always try to share when lots of people are sharing because it is less likely a spy would pick your your shared file and collect your IP.

11. When erasing your hard drive, flash drive, SD Card, Disk on key, etc etc Always use a bootup erasing software for boot devices you don't wanna use anymore, and always use a more Advanced/Secure Erasing software like Active Killdisk, Whitecanyon WipeDrive 5, Darieks Boot and Nuke, or VAIOSoft DriveEraser (Recommended and Freeware :) ) to erase sensitive drives, you could also use Eraser to erase drives free space but I recommend you use a advanced erasing software because it erases everything, including the Master File Table (MFT) and the disk is swept clean and ready for reuse and to be formatted. I recommend you erase 8 times or more to prevent your DATA from being recovered from the FBI and MPAA professionals. It costs a bunch of money to recover erased disks but these powerful corporations probably could do this type of thing and it would be small change to them, since they could sue you.

12. Anytime you wanna throw away a disk, don't do it because the FBI has been known to search through peoples trash cans, so always shred your DVD or CD, hammer the top pieces and bottom pieces of the disk after you shred it, put black marks on the data area, then throw it in a fire, if there's no fire drown it in acid, if that doesn't work or if you don't have acid use large scissors on a whole disk and cut it(not recommend), or the shredded parts of the disk(recommended) and cut the shredded pieces to even smaller pieces and making recovery or police forensic scans impossible, if it's a RW use full erase, or you could a blow torch on it.

For more info on how to destroy a disk check out Destroy-a-CD-or-DVD.

13. ALWAYS I Repeat ALWAYS Use a Firewall because it keeps the cops out of your computer, not only that they can't ban firewalls because legitimate/innocent users Must Have a firewall because of illegitimate hacker attacks, this is your perfect legal defense against the RIAA Hackers, MPAA Hackers, FBI Hackers, Police Hackers, Blackmailers, Revengers, and Other hackers.

These are the firewalls I recommend: Very Recommended: Sygate Firewall Pro, A Pirated Pro version would be better recommended (well Sygate went out of business because of Symantec, so pirating Sygate Firewall Pro won't get you arrested) SSH Tunnel (Great working internal port filtering firewall, not very recommend if you file-share with many different or get peers with many different ports) (Recommend for servers, trackers, and very paranoid users) (SSH Tunnel Firewall would be recommended if you wanna black ports below 1024, but keep open ports such as 53 DNS, 80 HTTP, 443 HTTPS, 21/20 FTP, 25 SMTP, and 110 POP3) Zonealarm, (Recommended but very advanced. Novice file-sharers, and novice downloaders may have problems with their file-sharing clients until they know exactly what to do)

The reason I recommend Sygate Firewall whether Pro or Standard is because every time a application, Spyware, Virus Downloader, Browser, or any application connects to the internet you can give it permission to connect once and have it popup again, or you could tell it to always allow it if you hate getting connect permission popups all the time. Very recommend for users that don't wanna validate their Windows XPs, and users that don't wanna validate their Vistas either. Also recommended for anyone that uses any software that Calls Home like a spy.

Ok now you got a lot of tips, Now I won't share any more until the next version of this guide, that's right I will keep making changes and updates since the laws can change, technology can change, products and services can change, file-sharing protocols can change, well Thanks for reading this and I hope I gave you enough information on how to stay out of trouble while file-sharing/downloading :)

Thanks and have a great day!