Demonoid Users Warned by Their ISPs

Any heavy file sharer is (or should be) aware of the fact that is safer to use private trackers than public ones. If you’re using Demonoid (and not only) you should know that most of the popular torrents are using public trackers - which is just about everything that has a massive swarm of seeders and leechers.

So, basically, whether you’re downloading from The Pirate Bay or Mininova, there’s no difference there. This was meant like a little introduction to the problem many Demonoid users are experiencing more and more these days. It seems that they have been sent e-mails from their internet service providers in which they were admonished for having downloaded copyrighted material.

This, of course, has nothing to do with an eventual mistake from Demonoid. Besides running their own tracker, the site is nothing more than one indexing torrents, gathering an immense collection of such torrents from other (public) sites.

What do to?

There are some pretty simple ways to reduce the risk factor. Of course, the first one would be to stay away from torrents tagged as "external". Then, there is the use of a seedbox, or a VPN service (such as VPNGates.com) for users who download torrents on their home computer and the use of PeerGuardian which, some say, can block bad IPs – yet, nothing certain can be said about it. Lastly, we’ll include a not so known solution - to use a hacked BitTorrent client to make sure your IP address will be kept out of the torrent.