Re: Is Anonymizing software worth it?

From: klf (240dl_at_jl.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:28:48 GMT

Hello,

no one cares! one isp i used hosted websites for police, but their news
servers allowed child porn groups. It would be a job to catch people as
everyone downloads.
I would buy DVDs and music CDs and software if the price was sensible. The
higher it goes, the less people buy it.
Company greed causes a lot of it.
If you don't want to have people knowing which sites you look at then use a
proxy server.

"Paul Schofield" <paul7876@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:cgssnv$rl6$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> Thanks for the advice. I've just got broadband and I'm spending a bit more
> time on-line than I used to.
> It makes me wonder how the ones who download mp3s, movie etc. don't get
> caught. I'd have thought the ISP would have noticed things like that.
>
> Paul
>
> "Leythos" <void@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1b9baac53f8c38a998978b@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
>> In article <cgsllh$8rd$1@titan.btinternet.com>, paul7876@btinternet.com
>> says...
>> > Does anyone have any views on anonymizing software?
>> > I've tried various different ones. They either seem to block access to
>> > genuine functions eg Windows Update, or just not work.
>> > I've tested a few programs with web sites that tell you you're IP
> address.
>> > Some of them get it wrong but some still get it right, even when I'm
>> > apparently anonymized.
>> > Surely your IP address must still be visible in some way for your
> computer
>> > to work on the Internet.
>> > Does anyway else think its a waste of time?
>>
>> I've been using Usenet for more than 25 years and have never found a
>> reason to hide, other than my email address, from anything I've posted.
>> In all that time, except from countries where they shoot people for
>> having a dissenting opinion, I've never seen anyone have a valid (read
>> that as legal) reason for using one of the anon services. If you are not
>> doing anything illegal, are not spamming groups, follow the charters of
>> groups, and you are not a Troll, then you have no reason to hide where
>> you come from.
>>
>> Things to consider:
>>
>> Do not provide your real email address unless you can munge (add extra
>> characters to it, see my sig) it to keep the email harvesters from
>> getting it. Most people put a munged email address in their sig so that
>> people can contact them via email if needed.
>>
>> Use a nick-name (like many of us do), but use the same one for a long
>> period of time - this lets people "kill-file" you so that they don't
>> have to read your posts (there are other means to KF someone, but most
>> people try it on name first).
>>
>> Always try and post on-topic.
>>
>> Always BOTTOM POST unless the group is specifically a top-posting group.
>>
>> --
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>> (Remove 999 to reply to me)
>
> 

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