IP address cloaking

[thypentacle]

I have said before here that my ISP has been called by people complaining about me sharing MP3's. So I thought maybe it would be a good idea to not show the IP address of the person your downloading/uploading to right there in plain view when a client downloads off you or uploads to you. Is there any way to connect to a person without showing there IP address in the display?

WinMX doesn't show IP address info in the display and bearshare pro doesn't either, so it wouldn't effect the downloads/uploads. Maybe you could also do what bearshare pro does and use authentication to prevent non secure clients from connecting to you as well?

With these new laws in the U.S. on the way that allow gov. ***** to legally hack into your machine if you're running these types of apps, it would seem a wise precaution to at least try to make it difficult to figure out just which machine to hack.