The UK has carnivore now, they just call it something else to make it sound nicer to the general public.

Herbivore?

LOL - from amice

The UK has carnivore now, they just call it something else to make it sound nicer to the general public.

ISP's in Canada have started to monitor torrent traffic in every way possible, look at Bell Canada / Sympatico, they track them, as well as throttle them.

true, likely they are obliged (?) to do so because of Canadian laws, just like US laws (the dedicated servers for monitoring are called "carnivores"). however, they don't monitor each and every info, just some illegal content like child porn, drugs, etc…

for the second case, alas, even the protocol encryption might not help. some modern traffic management systems (very expensive devices) are capable to throttle any sort of "not desired" traffic. in addition, the port number of the tracker has nothing to do with the transfers alone, it's only used to communicate with our clients. influenced port numbers are the ones set up by peers in a swarm, however, port numbers are already hardly ever used for traffic detection; it used to be the cheapest method in the past, very inaccurate though and easily spoofable.

Against the first you can activate protocol encryption in good torrent clients and the GayTorrent.ru tracker isn't using a standard port.

exactly as you say, Uwe. there is no need for worries, filenames are not being transferred. you can be spotted only in the case that a studio spy is actively connected to a swarm and you are actively leeching from him. ISPs don't inspect their customers traffic, they only receive studio appeals with your IP address and afterwards ISPs contact you to remove the content to comply with rights.

ISP's in Canada have started to monitor torrent traffic in every way possible, look at Bell Canada / Sympatico, they track them, as well as throttle them.

When you start downloading a torrent file you can always rename the file…  "save as"   

Save-As wont rename the original file you get.

It will download it with its original name and then -internally- will rename it on your PC.

Most ISPs don't spy on their customers without a request from the police, as it would be too costly and could violate privacy laws.