Can they track your ip address when you torrent adobe?

[JackLetro]

When you torrent adobe off the internet and it asks you to turn off the internet is it so they can't track your ip address? I'm starting to get worried lmao

Heres what the instructions said.

1; Uninstall all previous cs3/4 flash apps.

2; Turn off internet

3; Replace your hosts file with the one in this folder
or open your hosts file with notepad and change it
to look like this;

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#127.0.0.1 localhost
#::1 localhost
127.0.0.1activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.13dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.13dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1activate-sjc0.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe.activate.com
127.0.0.1 adobeereg.com

127.0.0.1 www.adobeereg.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 125.252.224.90
127.0.0.1 125.252.224.91
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com

hosts file is at;

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

4; Restart and make sure hosts entries are saved (open it with notepad and look).

5; Install CS5 using serials;

1302-1009-3696-1065-6850-7951
1325-1558-5864-4422-1094-1126

6; Copy the dll file from this folder and replace each of the amtlib.dll
files in crograme files adobe (only do this on 32bit)
What if I decided to cancel the download in the middle? and just stop? does it prevent them from finding me? Or did it already alert them? @sani

[Paulyy702]

When downloading media via torrents, companys that look for you find your IP while you upload.
(You upload while downloading).

To prevent companies from finding you, download

Peer Guardian 2
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

or

Peer Block
http://www.peerblock.com/releases/public-releases/peerblock-1.1.0-r518
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The instructions/readme ask you to turn off your internet connection because...

If its on while your installing the program, it will connect to the activation server, and notify your PC that your version is pirated and the serials are blacklisted.(Meaning, they won't work.)

Keep internet off until installation is over and also try getting PG2 or PB. (I included links above.)

[aDz]

No. The reason they tell you to turn off the internet, is so when you are activating Adobe CS5 or any other version, is so that they don't automatically try to register you online. Adobe does not have people out there scanning warez sites trying to lock on to IP's and bust people. I have done this many times with the Adobe suites and with other progs and I leave my internet on, all i do is click "register later" if prompted. As long as you don't register online manually with a key generated serial, you got nothing to worry about. Just download the torrent, unzip all files. swap out the host and hosts files run the activation patch and viola'. Trust me on this, I have been doing this kind of stuff for years, you don't need to be worried about them trying to track you, even if they did.. an IP address only gives a general region of location, not specific. Because of wireless signals, you can't ping many specifics on a host.

[sani]

If adobe had spies in the swarm then you're alredy busted, unless you were hiding behind an anonymizer.

As to the instructions there, adobe has obviously blacklisted those serials, so you can use them to activate the software, but if you didn't modify your hosts file, the program would "phone home" and you'd be busted. So telling you to modify your hosts file like that prevents the software contacting adobe.

[Hanyuu]

It just keeps the program from contacting the activation server.