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In my college, I have a proxy server. Now using psiphon, I can bypass proxy. But problem is, torrent is not working with psiphon. If I am using my cyber roam account, also torrent does not work. Is there any solution for the problem? Thank you.
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I have found a way to run torrents on Psiphon, you would also be able to play online games like League of Legends and DoTA.
Here is how it is done:
- Download Psiphon. Connect to the server closest to you.
- Go to settings.
- In settings, go to “Local Proxy Ports”.
- Enter a desired port number (say 443) in the HTTP/HTTPS section.
- Apply the settings and reconnect.
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- Right click on the OpenVPN GUI running in the taskbar and go to Settings.
- Go to Proxy tab.
- Choose Manual Configuration. And choose HTTP Proxy.
- Enter the address: 127.0.0.1 and Port:443 (which you noted earlier).
- Click OK.
Here we made OpenVPN to connect to the server through Psiphon.
- There are a lot of free OpenVPN providers which you could find online. Choose any one of then and download the .ovpn config file and place it in 'C:Program FilesOpenVPNconfig'
- Connect to the server using OpenVPN client running in the Taskbar.
- That’s it you can play online games and download torrents.
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Now we don't need Psiphon to connect to internet. I have partially figured out how Psiphon works.
Basically, all it does is establish a VPN through the UDP port 53.
Here is how you should make it work:
- Google for UDP port 53 OpenVPN servers.
- Download the .ovpn config for the server which you are going to choose.
- In OpenVPN GUI:
- Right click on the OpenVPN GUI running in the taskbar and go to Settings.
- Go to Proxy tab.
- Select 'Use OpenVPN config file settings'. The previous settings will fade away, nothing to worry about it.
- Make sure that Psiphon is not running.
- Connect to the server using OpenVPN client running in the Taskbar.
- This time it may take a few seconds more compared to the previous method.
- That’s it you can play online games and download torrents.
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Most likely, you cannot. Here a blogger claims to have spoken with a representative from psiphon, who says:
The VPN mode has its bandwidth deliberately restricted, as Psiphon is keen to be all about censorship evasion , and not about downloading movies.
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So, even if you use their VPN, your download rate will be painfully slow, read the blog post above.
Your best solution is to run an OpenVPN server at home or on a cheap VPS (there are some for as little as 2 or three bucks a month), on TCP port 443, which is not blocked by just about all proxies and firewalls.
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Tribler is better suited to what you have in mind. Its basically a cheap but effective (if not slow) proxy run client. It uses the darkweb to tunnel all torrent traffic. Some say its best to use it with a VPN, but it works just fine on its own. Oh and it has its own built in search engine as well a bonus? Dunno its not the best. You could use Tor for torrent files if paranoid. That or just use i2p with Vuze which has a plugin for i2p, so not only do you tunnel torrent traffic that way. You also make yourself practically invisible and encrypted. No I won't tell you how to do it :)
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When it comes to torrents, one of the most commonly asked questions is “Is downloading torrents legal or illegal?” Torrent clients, such as uTorrent Vuze and the official BitTorrent client, are used to download immense amounts of data on the Web, and there’s no question that much of it is illegal. Here we’ll talk about how torrent downloads work, when they’re illegal, and how to protect your privacy when you’re using them.
So What Is Legal and What Is Illegal?
The short answer: as long as the item is copyrighted and you don’t own it, then downloading it (for free) via torrent is illegal. Using a torrent client and downloading torrents in itself isn’t illegal, as you could be downloading things that aren’t protected by copyright.
The long answer: This varies from case to case. Most countries have basic common laws against intellectual property theft. If a piece of music is copyrighted and you don’t own it, you can’t download it legally. The same goes for a movie, a game, or anything else you may want (unless the copyright-holder decides to make it free either temporarily or permanently, as is often the case with video games). The line gets kind of fuzzy here, since people ask themselves many different questions about their own country’s laws.
In general, a copyright is registered to an individual or organization that creates something. This copyright has a time limit, usually equivalent to the lifetime of the creator and a set amount of additional years. Some copyrights are for life plus fifty years. Others are for life plus seventy years. Look up your country in the previous link if you’re unsure of your laws. Of course, your mileage may vary, as some things may not be protected by the law where you live, or copyright law may not be enforced at all.
So if you’re downloading a free Linux distribution through your torrent client, you don’t need to worry. But if you’re getting John Lennon’s “Imagine” from The Pirate Bay, you’re doing something that in all likelihood is breaking a law.
Related: How to Download Torrents onto Your iOS Device Without Jailbreaking
Torrent Privacy
Whatever it is you’re doing is not any of my business. But it is my business to make sure you know just how “anonymous” you are in the torrent network. The short answer is: you totally aren’t!
It’s handy to have a basic knowledge of how the torrent protocol works. Theoretically you should have some level of privacy since you’re not downloading any data from one particular server (in contrast to downloading something from a central server like you’d find on Microsoft’s website, where they’ll know exactly who it is that’s downloading their products).
But through the torrent system you download directions to a file. That means that the torrent file is actually just a list of trackers and some hash codes. It doesn’t really prove that you downloaded the torrent file. What you do inside your torrent client is more important, and that’s all managed by a decentralized list of servers. Once you start the download of the actual file you want to get to, you end up downloading little pieces of the file from a bunch of people.
Can You Get Caught?
Government agents and copyright trolls tend to snoop around the Torrent networks, and some of the more popular sites hosting Torrent files, downloading files and listing all the IP addresses they find under the Peers (downloaders) and Seeders (uploaders) lists. This will, of course, compromise your address eventually.
The actual number of people who get caught is miniscule, but if you want to secure yourself and don’t care much to contribute to the Torrent community, then you can disable seeding which stops your PC uploading files to the torrent network. Avid torrenters would call this selfish, and maybe they’re right, but you’re also covering yourself.
Another good option is to use a proxy or VPN, then set your torrent client to connect to peers through that. This essentially makes you anonymous by routing your connection through a different IP address.
Then there’s the onion routing network (Tor) that you can configure as a proxy for your torrent client. However, since the Snowden revelations it’s become known that even Tor has been targeted by the NSA and GCHQ for illegal activity. While the network is mostly secure, there have been incidents of these spy bodies attacking individual computers, so it’s not as anonymous as it once was.
Conclusion
Rest assured that torrenting does not equate to piracy. It does, however, provide a very convenient way to do it! The torrent protocol is just a clever transmission method for users to download files more easily. If you’re worried that you may be downloading something that’s against the laws in your country, ask below.
This article was first published in Jun 2013 and was updated in Nov 2017.
Image credit: Pirate Bay main page