I’m trying to figure how to get around the ISP piracy detection. (I wanted to pirate Daria to get a specific voiceline for a SRB2Kart Daria mod.)
Last time I pirated Daria; my ISP found out. (In hindsight it seemed obvious; viacom is a copyright douchebag; I was utilizing torrents; and I didn’t use tor.) Fortunately, I use a different network (AT&T (ugh)) instead of comcast.
Everyone always be recommending vpn but I bet you’re still using your ISPs DNS server. Look into using other DNS servers that support dnscrypt or DNS over https. That will keep your ISP from snooping your traffic and the only way they’ll know what you’re connecting to is if they resolved the IP addresses you’re connecting to, but even then they wouldn’t know exactly what torrents you’re downloading.
Vpn will work but they cost money and can be privacy invading on their own. Never trust a company that charges for privacy.
https://hispagatos.org/post/dnscrypt-proxy-arch-tut/
https://nathancatania.com/posts/pihole-dns-doh/
Also be on the lookout for the daria restoration project. They rereleased the show with as much original music they could.Apparently they couldn’t get the rights to the original music for the DVD release.
Dnscrypt and DNS over HTTPS prevents your ISP from tampering with your DNS requests, but it does not prevent them from seeing which domain names you are connecting to, because of Server Name Identification. Widespread adoption of Encrypted Server Name Identification mainly comes down to server operators, many of whom won’t ever implement it (because it’s a pain in the ass to setup, and relatively little gain for the average webmaster)
Yes however that would require them to resolve every IP you’re connecting to even if you are not making requests to their DNS servers. I doubt any ISP is going to devote resources to logging all that traffic if there’s no incentive for them to do so.
Maybe some ISPs that are also owned by major media producers like time warner and the like might think to do something like that, but I suspect its to punish heavy users rather than uphold their parent companies intellectual property.
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Yeah, through their dns. Of which they are free to log and analyze at their pleasure. I’m not saying VPN provieders dont have their place but why pay for something that is likely also collecting data on you.
Another reason VPNs can be helpful is if you’re using some dirty public trackers that are easy for whatever copyright agency to collect data on. I’m not saying this never happens on private trackers but its much less of a concern. I would definitely suggest getting a seedbox before paying a vpncompany if you’re worried about that, But ops question was justaboutt their ISP snooping so secure DNS should be plenty fine for that. They’ll know you’re torrenting but won’t know what it is.
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