Hi all,

I know it will be hard for some to answer this objectively but hoping someone will dare. But if you are familiar with Bittorrent, you will know what ones uses a torrent client. Now somewhere in the client, aside from just enabling encryption, there is a way to mask your external IP to everyone else. It is this that I am wondering what it is I need or need to look into in order to do? Do I need to use a proxy? What about SOCKS5? So to summarize, if I want a Linux program to perform such an action, can someone point me in the right direction?

read this article, but from whom are trying to hide, hackers, goverment?

I wouldn't worry about it... torrenting .iso's of your favorite Linux distro is 100% legal. If you "seed" then you are actually doing the developers a favor.

...additionally note 0) the IP protocol suite works in certain ways (as in the implications of having end points), 1) there's a distinct difference between Privacy and Anonymity (saying "but I don't have nothing to hide" means you don't get it) and 2) if you're asking after you've started you're already too late :-] (as in think before you act). Think of these links as starting points:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/09/0...curity-online/
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-pr...iously-111007/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=321982
*And please do not abuse TOR for P2P.

something tells me that trying to hide one's ip using a torrent client may not be downloading something totally legit.

Well said!
Is privacy anonymous?
Is anonymity private?

HAHA. I knew all the Linux gurus would suspect sonething. No, straight up, I will download a music album or movie through torrents. Call it piracy. Maybe some of it, but take this for example. I spent years of my teen years buying favorite CDs or Dvds okay so Hollywood got my money then. Now then when I was 19 my apartment burned down. I list most of the stuff. True story. So I say what's it matter if I just get my paid album or movie back? Best way. Also, !I've saved lots of money not having to pay to see potentialy awesome movies but instead were utter duds due to Hollywood greed, so it really is fair. And I went and paid to see my fave bands in concerts all the time. That is where artists get their income.

Anyway, thanks for replying with the leads.

Greetings
I would like to urge OP to be careful and not only out of fear at being exposed or caught at something, whether someone elses business or not. Once we begin to rationalize that a "free pass", even a "limited" one, has somehow been earned we are on a very slippery slope indeed. It is a form of power and one that can corrupt. It changes who you are and by extension, the sort of world we all live in. Only you can decide the level of integrity and honor that will be a part of who you are and decay takes place most often in many little steps. Please consider such choices very carefully, for all our sakes, but especially for yours.

Regardless of the reasons for downloading music or video from these torrent sites, LQ cannot be seen as assisting or condoning the action. Therefore I am closing this thread.

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