Shareaza

i am using Road runner cable internet from time warner and they employ network throttling, which is very annoying but if could verify that Shareaza uses newtork encrypting to protect p2p traffic and hopefully prevent those nastly MPAA and ISP letters from appearing thanks in advance.

Repeating what kevogod said for emphasis:

Encryption does not in anyway protect you from being sued for copyright infringement. It is not even supposed to.

It also does not protect you from throttling. While many ISPs only throttle unencrypted traffic, there is no actual technical reason making throttling encrypted traffic impossible.

to put it simply...
shareaza does not promote or condone copyright infringement.
if you have nothing to hide then there is no need to hide it.
shareaza does not encrypt or obfuscate network traffic.

I agree with a light optional encryption and obfuscation.

anonymity
the state of being anonymous

anonymous
having no known name or identity or known source; "anonymous authors"; "anonymous donors"; "an anonymous gift"

pseudonymity
The state of being pseudonymous, of hiding one's true identity behind a pseudonym

pseudonymous
bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name; "the writings of Mark Twain are pseudonymous"

privacy
the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

obfuscation
The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.

obfuscate
To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.

encryption
encoding: the activity of converting data or information into code

decryption
decoding: the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text; "a secret key or password is required for decryption"

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