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HowtoForge: "Nowadays, within the growing web 2.0 environment you may want to have some anonymity, and use other IP addresses than your own IP.

Or, for some special purposes - a few IPs or more, frequently changed. So no one will be able to track you.

A solution exists, and it is called Tor Project, or simply tor."

There's been an ongoing discussion in Europe as to whether or not IP addresses should be considered personal info.

The implications have a lot to do with how companies deal with your IP address. If it is considered private info, then they are quite limited in what they can do with it.

If it's not, then it opens up ISPs to being required to store your IP addresses in log files that they may be required to keep.

China isn't as far along with IPv6 as we're sometimes lead to believe, which is something that should probably change before IPv4 addresses are predicted to run out in the country in the next two years and three months.

The "father of the internet" has warned that the web is running out of addresses and users need to act now to change to a new system.

Vint Cerf, the man who help invented the system and one of the world's leading computer scientists, said that the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other.

The RIAA is looking for the identities of 11 Tufts University students so it can offer them generous copyright infringement settlement terms.

One problem: two of the IP addresses in question were in use by as many as 40 students.

As part of a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, YouTube has to turn over a 12TB database of every video ever watched on the site, complete with user IDs and IP addresses.

Viacom has now agreed that the data can first be made anonymous.

Fed up, Wikipedia banned all Overstock. IP addresses from editing Wikipedia pages. Since then, Byrne has used his "Take 5 with Patrick" postings to disseminate articles such as "Social Media - Hijacking the Discourse," "How to Handle a Corrupt Reporter," "A Small Thing Called, the First Amendment," and "Our Corrupt Federal Regulator the SEC."

BTGuard is an easy to use proxy service that adds an extra layer of privacy to your BitTorrent transfers. The service is designed for BitTorrent users who don’t want their ISPs or any third party to log or throttle their IPs or traffic.

BTGuard reroutes all your BitTorrent traffic through their servers in Canada.

This means that anyone who connects to you via BitTorrent, even the MPAA or RIAA, will see BTGuard’s IP, and not yours.