Is There Anything Illegal To "Change" Your IP Address?

[sirchai]

Hello and Sawasdee Khrap,

Here's my question. I'm using a program that allows me to change my IP address into one from any country around the world in just a second.

As a genuine tax payer, I'd never download movies, copied Windows products etc...

I'm currently located in Kingston/ Jamaica. Is there anything illegal about it?-

Here's my proof:

Field Name Value IP Address 208.163.36.13 Country JAMAICA Region & City KINGSTON, KINGSTON Latitude & Longitude +17.99702, -76.79358 ZIP Code - ISP EXCELSIOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE Domain CWJAMAICA.COM Time Zone -05:00 Net Speed COMP IDD Code & Area Code +1876 Weather Station KINGSTON (JMXX0002) Mobile MCC, MNC, & Carrier name - Elevation 67 Usage Type EDU

[sirchai]

P.S. If so, I've already moved to another country. Thanks for any input.-

[Tywais]

All VPNs operate that way and VPNs are not illegal in the technology itself, only if you do illegal things with the technology. I myself have two VPN services I use. StrongVPN to the US and OpenVPN to Singapore.

You can browse through my pinned topic on the subject - http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/334588-proxies-vpn-and-other-information/

[PeterSmiles]

All VPNs operate that way and VPNs are not illegal in the technology itself, only if you do illegal things with the technology. I myself have two VPN services I use. StrongVPN to the US and OpenVPN to Singapore.

You can browse through my pinned topic on the subject - http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/334588-proxies-vpn-and-other-information/

Does a VPN slow down your connection since you add one more step ?

[Tywais]

All VPNs operate that way and VPNs are not illegal in the technology itself, only if you do illegal things with the technology. I myself have two VPN services I use. StrongVPN to the US and OpenVPN to Singapore.

You can browse through my pinned topic on the subject - http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/334588-proxies-vpn-and-other-information/

Does a VPN slow down your connection since you add one more step ?

It can slow slightly due to the data being encrypted to/from the VPN server. My US connection does make it noticeably slower but my Singapore connection seems to have no effect and in some instances even faster probably due to different routing.

[Tywais]

A couple of nonsense posts removed.

[moradave]

To change your IP address to only specified web sites try "Hola.org". Free. Does not slow down data transmission. Legal (I think) but does not give you license to download copyrighted material.

Edited December 18, 2013 by moradave

[sirchai]

It always depends on the time of the day. At least with the program that I'm using. Just "go normal" then. Why would anybody download let's say a Windows 7 full functioning version for free, if Windows offers it for 6 K?

I think 99% of Thai schools do not have genuine versions of Windows on their machines. Sorry, off topic.-

[Loles]

It always depends on the time of the day. At least with the program that I'm using. Just "go normal" then. Why would anybody download let's say a Windows 7 full functioning version for free, if Windows offers it for 6 K?

I think 99% of Thai schools do not have genuine versions of Windows on their machines. Sorry, off topic.-

99 % ???

you can say 100 % it's pretty sure

[astral]

You cannot change your real IP address, it is a function of where you are physically connected on the net!!

However as Tywais says you can appear to be somewhere else by routing through a VPN