Torrenting Guide: Protecting Your IP with VPN and Proxy

To protect IP while torrenting, use VPN or SOCKS5 proxy; NordVPN is recommended for better speeds.

### 2024 Torrenting Guide: Protecting Your IP with VPNs and SOCKS5 Proxies
* 🔒 Torrenting involves P2P file sharing, exposing your public IP address to potential risks like **receiving legal notices from ISPs**.
* 🛡 To protect your IP, you can use either a VPN or a SOCKS5 proxy, with VPNs being **more common** but proxies often offering **better speed**.
* 🔗 NordVPN and TorGuard are recommended VPNs for torrenting, with **NordVPN currently providing better speeds** in tests.
* 📝 To set up a SOCKS5 proxy with NordVPN, you need to access **manual configuration details** from your account panel and input them into your torrent client.
* 🕵 To ensure your IP address is properly anonymized, you can use tools like **ipleak.net** to check for **leaks**.
* 🔒 For additional security when using a VPN, you can **bind the network interface in your torrent client to the VPN connection**, ensuring no torrenting occurs without the VPN being active.
* 📄 For a detailed written guide on these steps, check the **link in the video description** for additional resources.
* 💬 The creator emphasizes **responsible downloading** and notes that the video contains **no ads or sponsorships**, with all recommended products being **personally used and endorsed**.

hey guys, what is going on? Welcome back to another video. Today, we are making a brand new user torrent guide for 2024. Going into 2024, we're going to be discussing how to protect your IP while torrenting to make sure you don't get any letters in the mail. We are going to be discussing which VPN to use, and we're going to be discussing best practices to make sure you're always staying protected. Now, guys, in this video, I'm not endorsing to violate copyright infringement in whatever country you live in. Always follow your local laws. And for me personally, I just download Linux isos or I download public domain content. I am not endorsing piracy or anything like that, so make sure to always download responsibly. Additionally, guys, this video does not have any YouTube ads on it, just like all my videos on my channel. I'm one of the only YouTubers I know that uses no ads on my channel because I hate ads and I'm a privacy advocate, so I'm not going to be

using ads on my videos. Additionally, I don't use any sponsorships on this channel either, so any product I recommend is an affiliate and I personally use it every day, and the product I stand by. However, if you click on a link, it can help support me if you do want to do that. Alright, guys, so let's get into it. So here we go. We're going to be using this little whiteboard. I like to use this to discuss these concepts. Alright, guys, so step one, let's go ahead and discuss what happens when you download torrents and what they even are. Well, it's done through P2P, which is peer-to-peer, and this means that you're one of these IPs. So someone can see your public IP. When they click on this IP or look up the location, they can see where you are. Your ISP can connect this IP to you. If someone mails your ISP that you've downloaded something, that's how they find out who it is. This can result in you having suspended service, having some kind of

warning or something like that, so it's definitely something you want to protect. You want to hide your IP. Unfortunately, the nature of torrenting means you are sharing files from one computer to another, and that's why these IPs are public. However, you can anonymize it by using a SOCKS5 proxy or a VPN, which we'll discuss in a second. So as you see here, when you download a file, it's called leeching, and when you share a file, it's called seeding. So people who are sharing files or seeders, and people who are downloading are leechers. So to get a file, you must leech it. Next up, we could talk about why does it matter if you have your IP exposed as in this fashion. Well, like I said before, having your IP exposed can lead you to getting letters in the mail. It can also be bad for your privacy just for people to see your IP and what you're downloading, but something you generally do want to protect. So now let's go on to number three.

how do you hide your IP address? So, there are two ways to do it. Like I said, a VPN or socks proxy. Now, VPN is probably the more common way to hide your IP, and it's probably what people talk about more often than not. However, my preferred way is actually using a socks by proxy. A couple reasons: one is that they usually affect your speed less. Two is that you can generally kind of set it and forget it, which means you can put it in the application, save it, and then you won't have to worry about it anymore, and it's going to anonymize your IP address. There are some other reasons to use VPNs primarily, while VPNs do kind of hide your traffic more, they kind of encrypt your traffic so that your ISP can't even see your torrenting. But in my opinion, it doesn't really matter as long as you hide your IP, you should be good to go. It just kind of depends on how paranoid you are, if you care if your ISP knows you're torrenting, then maybe you

do want to use a VPN so guys you might be wondering well which Sox 5 proxy provider should I use then which is a good VPN to use well I've been testing these vpns for a long time um I like to use torguard and nordvpn for torrenting nor VPN lately has been giving me better speeds I've done some tests and they give me better speed so I've been going to be recommending that for this video. It's also one of the vpns that does provide socks via proxy access so find that link in the description down below. Basically with Nord you're just going to have to go to the manual credentials section and copy the username and password and then put it in the application. So how are you going to do that well it's pretty simple and we're going to show you here on the screen the basic instructions are to make it just like this picture. You're going to want it to be Port 1080. You're going to put the sox5 proxy address pixox5.

could click all these boxes and enter in the username and credentials. Now, specifically with NordVPN, they have a section where you can do manual configuration in the account panel, and you'll just copy the username and password. I could show you that right here. Basically, all you do is go to your account panel after paying for the service, and then you're going to go to view details on NordVPN, go to set up Nord manually, and then you're going to verify your email address. Once you do this, you could find your username and password. And just like our thing here, you're just going to put the username and password right here or the address. You're going to look up the proxy addresses. There's a list on the support page of these various servers. You can find that by going to Nord's support page and look up Socks by proxy, and there will be a guide to set it up. These are also the addresses you can use. So pretty much what you'll do just like here is you'll copy this address, and you'll put it here as a host every time.

you turn with qubitorn your IP appear is going to be anonymized so there are also ways to make sure that your IP address isn't leaking and that's when you want to download kind of like a test file. Now there are a lot there are a lot of tools to do this but one good way to do it is go to ipleak.net you're going to do this torrent activation you want to add this link and it's going to put it in here and then you'll refresh this page and then if it shows that you're using a VPN it means you are anonymized so that is my preferred way to you do it so that's how you make sure it's not leaking now you might be saying well Tom I still want to use a VPN I don't really want to use a proxy so another way you could do that is you go into queue BitTorrent go to tools options you're going to want to go down to Advanced and from here you're going to want to bind the network

interface to your VPN connection. So, this is the way to do it. Right now, I have Surfshark installed on my computer. Another decent option Surfshark Nord and TorGuard are my top three VPNs right now. So, what you want to do is find the adapter for that VPN you're using. Let's say if I was using Surfshark, I could bind it to this. This basically means nothing will ever torrent unless the WireGuard connection from Surfshark is connected. So, that's if you want to bind your VPN the safest way. But you can just use the proxy. You can just turn the VPN on and use the kill switches, which basically are implemented in the various applications. So, you can check that out if you want to. But this is generally the most secure way to do it. Alright, guys. I hope that made sense. I hope it wasn't too much of a data dump. If you would like, I'm gonna put this a little article that I wrote here. I'm going to be using. I'll be making a

little guide here on my website. Um, if you want the full instructions, a little guide here like I made here for this video. Um, check the link in the description down below, and I'll make a little guide there for you on my website. Alright, guys, see you in the next video very soon.

New User Torrenting Guide 2024 - 100% SAFE!

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2024 User Torrent Guide: Protecting Your IP and Staying Legal

Torrenting in 2024 requires protecting your IP to avoid legal issues.

Using a VPN is crucial for hiding your public IP and staying anonymous while torrenting.

It's important to follow local laws and download responsibly to avoid copyright infringement and legal consequences.

Torrenting involves sharing files, making your IP public, but you can protect it using a SOCKS5 proxy or a VPN.

Leeching is when you download a file, while seeding is when you share it, and having your IP exposed can lead to privacy issues and legal consequences.

Hiding your IP is possible through a VPN or a SOCKS5 proxy, with each method having its advantages, such as the VPN encrypting your traffic for added security.

Recommended VPN and Socks5 Proxy Setup with NordVPN

NordVPN is recommended for torrenting due to its fast speeds and Socks5 proxy access.

To set up the Socks5 proxy, you need to go to the manual credentials section in the NordVPN account panel, copy the username and password, and follow the provided guide to configure the proxy.

The Socks5 proxy addresses can be found on NordVPN's support page, and you can choose from the list of various servers for your setup.

Ensuring Anonymity and Security While Torrenting

net to test for VPN anonymization is a reliable method to prevent IP address leaks.

Another option is to bind the network interface to the VPN connection in qBittorrent's advanced settings.

Surfshark, Nord, and TorGuard are recommended VPNs, and using kill switches can provide added security during torrenting.

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They provide additional instructions and information beyond what is covered in the video.

Creating a website guide can enhance the viewer's experience and provide further value.