Alrighty, from what I understand, my ISP blocks the download of .torrent files (I'm on a college campus, and the IT department is full of bandwidth nazis.) Basically, any time I click a link that should lead to a .torrent file, it won't go through. I would like a way around this. Any ideas?
block extensions but not the actual protocol? fantastic
proxy/tor to browse & get the .torrent, regular business to use the .torrent..
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Anonymous2007-01-10 7:53
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We don't know whether the OP knows if they are also blocking the protocol.
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Anonymous2007-01-10 11:45
If they're blocking the protocol then that can be easily solved with transport encryption.
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Anonymous2007-01-10 23:45
OP here, I have no idea if they're blocking the protocol (they probably are,) but I do use transport encryption, so I can run torrents just fine. Aside from that, it's the damnedest thing, when I started this thread, and on several occassions before that, I had been completely unable to download a .torrent from anywhere I tried. I never got around to trying a proxy. When I woke up the next morning, though, I tried again, and was able to do so without any problems. I'm a little baffled by this, but I guess I don't need your help anymore. Thanks, though.
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Anonymous2007-01-11 19:47
Use Demonoid. Find someone who will give you an invite. They have thought this problem out and allow you to download a torrent in .txt format.
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Anonymous2007-01-11 19:51
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Oh, and you should be able to register on fridays if you can't find someone who will invite you. Not this Friday, because of maintenance, but next fri should allow registrations.
Btw, what college are you at?
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Anonymous2007-01-15 7:55
At my college they seem to look for unusual traffic patterns. BT works but as soon as the upload starts getting more than 40mb the network team notice and kill all the ports. So it is a case of really restricting upload stream and being a leech.