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They claim they’ll sue you for $100,000+ but they’ll settle for less – $2,000-$3,000. Some copyright trolls might even try to scam you. Alternatively, they use the IPs to track down users’ ISPs and send them threatening emails. They then forward the IPs to copyright agencies and lawyers.

Here’s what can go wrong when you download torrents: We’ll talk about useful security tools, offer some actionable tips, and answer many FAQs about downloading torrents safely. In this article, we’ll do our best to show you how to torrent safely. And it can also be dangerous if you use the wrong torrents. So torrenting can be risky depending on what your country’s laws say. Unfortunately, governments, movie studios, music producers, and ISPs don’t see torrenting that way.

Using a Qubes Disposable VM, Tails or Whonix to open files after you've downloaded them will help mitigate many of the risks (against leaks through normal operation of the file type) but not always against exploitation.Torrenting makes it possible for everyone to enjoy entertainment, software, and books they can’t afford. The Tor Browser actually has an explicit warning about this before you download any files.

These methods have been successfully used to deanonymize Tor users before, as well as deanonymizing state sponsored hackers targeting journalists. There are plenty it doesn't cover either. This presentation from 2015 shows a few examples of such techniques, although it is not at all extensive. So, it is safe to download file over Tor, at least about as safe as downloading them on a shared or public wireless network, for example but it is definitely not safe to open them and it will harm your anonymity. This is a very old tactic of bugging files (sometimes government documents have such tracking in them, provided by a DLP contractor), so that if they are opened they can discover who opened them. However, it is almost never safe to open them outside of Tor Browser or a special environment.Įven non-executable files (documents, videos, audio files, etc) can be used to ping-back to some server on the internet and since the application opening them isn't going through Tor, you will connect outside of the Tor network.