From packet size, you can tell who’s using wireguard, there are forks that alter and randomize this, but there’s a good chunk of the pool.
The human error problem. I’ve googled game isos and film names, I know. Someone can incriminate themselves without even needing torrents or a log.
Let’s say you’re Mr. Knowitall, behind TOR, on your own relay, on a remote vps, remote Qbittorrent, vpn on a dedicated port, all wrapped up in security. You only search on a dedicated TailsOS install on a private vlan on unbound dns, over https, with selinux on top.
In a court of law - they need to be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt to charge you. If they can’t prove you were going to the torrent site to download illegal content, a good lawyer will get you off. They may try, but don’t make their job easy. The more obscured you are, the harder it is for the content owners to sue and they will likely move to an easier target.
Lawsuits are won with money in the US. I’d lose before I walked into the courtroom. They’d be on script the entire time and rehearsed if the entire operation wasn’t planned to make an example of someone to begin with.
And a VPN to torrent behind. Pressure on torrenting prosecution is growing and AI tools to detect piracy are being developed.
From packet size, you can tell who’s using wireguard, there are forks that alter and randomize this, but there’s a good chunk of the pool.
The human error problem. I’ve googled game isos and film names, I know. Someone can incriminate themselves without even needing torrents or a log.
Let’s say you’re Mr. Knowitall, behind TOR, on your own relay, on a remote vps, remote Qbittorrent, vpn on a dedicated port, all wrapped up in security. You only search on a dedicated TailsOS install on a private vlan on unbound dns, over https, with selinux on top.
Judge: “You downloaded 43TB of what, exactly?”
In a court of law - they need to be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt to charge you. If they can’t prove you were going to the torrent site to download illegal content, a good lawyer will get you off. They may try, but don’t make their job easy. The more obscured you are, the harder it is for the content owners to sue and they will likely move to an easier target.
Lawsuits are won with money in the US. I’d lose before I walked into the courtroom. They’d be on script the entire time and rehearsed if the entire operation wasn’t planned to make an example of someone to begin with.
“Well, your honor, I wanted to have Wikipedia available offline for if my connection went out”