Hey guys, sorry to start a new thread but the only guide I found for this was for the UK and I am in Canada. Recently my ISP (Cogeco) sent me emails telling me i'm using too much bandwidth (their limit is 60 GB monthly and I was using 100GB) They then restricted my internet for 24 hours, their problem wasnt with torrents or anything it was just about too much bandwidth. Is there any way to avoid this limit or even minimize my use of bandwidth. I download and seed frequently from Bittornado and it is taking up all of my bandwidth. Any help would be very appreciated, thanks!

Sympatico, at the moment, has no caps on it's High Speed edition (it's only high speed until you read the tiny print) however the company has applied to the regulator to make it's illegal 'shaping' of downloads 'legal'.
Note that in Canada, politicians cannot be bought - then again, why buy when you can rent.

I got another email from my ISP, this time they caught me "infringing copyright"...do you think if i used limewire to download movies instead of torrents that they would still catch me?

Limewire is even easy to catch you on than using a bittorrent client... You can try forcing only encrypted connection packets. As most people now run encryption.

how do i force encyrption? will this make sure i dont get caught?

I can't promise that it will completely keep you from getting caught. And I don't use BitTornado for torrents, I use UTorrent personally, so I can't be positive on how their client is setup... It should be under your preferences, here's a screen shot of my client, should be somewhat similar to yours.

Encryption does not provide anonymity and does not help to avoid getting caught by anti-P2P groups.
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Avoid_traffic_shaping
Encryption is designed to bypass throttling and/or blocking of BitTorrent traffic by an ISP.
http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#Does_.C2...l_Encryption.3F

PeerGuardian2, or a similar program or uTorrent's IP Filter, are fairly effective. They work by blocking the IPs of "known" anti-P2P groups.
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

The surefire way to avoid copyright infringement is to not download copyrighted content.

What do you mean? Are you saying some movies are not copyrighted or are you saying that everything is copyrighted so dont bother?

There is a good amount of non-copyrighted material, but the vast majority is copyrighted.
There is a listing of free and legal torrent sites here.

What I am saying is that things like PeerGuardian2 provide some protection but are not 100% safe.

What to do is up to you. Just letting you know that whatever method you choose to avoid trouble on copyrighted content is not foolproof. They do make the odds of getting caught less, but not 100% less.