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How to pirate movie safely ? It's my first time. (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by Uri@infosec.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I never did it. How can I do it? And where I need to go for it?

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[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are two schools of thought, and one of them is insanely wrong.

The current preferred method (by youngins) for pirating is by using a VPN provider to "hide" your torrent traffic, which is generally valid, but it's not a silver bullet and it's a wrong way to think.

The other is to use a seedbox, which is a remote server hosted in a country that doesn't recognize piracy as a crime to begin with...

The choice is clear. Especially when you consider to get a good private VPN you'll have to pay $5-10/mo. You may as well pay $5-10/mo to commit a crime where no one thinks its a crime, then you never have to worry about it. Using a VPN you can still get caught, it's just exceptionally rare because conditions have to line up perfectly. But what if your VPN is down, and you accidentally begin a download? You willing to get a $100,000 fine for that?

Just use a damn seedbox.

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Just wanted to point out that if your client is configured properly it won't have any connections while the VPN is down.

[-] octobob@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah qbittorrent really locks this down and makes it fool-proof quite easily.

I noticed that none of my anime torrents were downloading last week. I was like hmm did my VPN get IP banned? Then I tried a private tracker. Last ditch effort was the Arch Linux iso.

I forgot to pay my VPN for the year. As soon as I did, restarted the container, boom back to business as usual

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

This is true, but when you factor in only maybe 10% of people know and understand how to enable a VPN kill-switch, it doesn't bring much comfort.

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Question out of curiosity, do you then keep stuff on the seedbox only or do you download to your local hard drive in your country? Because that download would still be illegal or wouldn't it? Just if we are talking about legality of things, everything else set aside.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Downloading copyrighted material isnt a crime; redistribuiting it is. (Seeding, in the case of torrents)

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

But then leeching via torrents is also legal. So one could just be an asshole for legality's sake.

[-] papertowels@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

That is coincidentally exactly what meta is arguing in their lawsuit.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Because that download would still be illegal

Of course its still illegal. I'm not saying it's using a seedbox makes it legal to download illegal torrents. It's just legal in the country of your seedbox. So if your seedbox provider gets a DMCA notice, they're going to throw it directly in the trash.

Additionally, between my seedbox and me, is encrypted. So how would anyone know what I download from my private seedbox? There's realistically no way to get "caught." Copyright holders pay people to monitor torrent traffic for people to prosecute and hassle--but the same isn't true for private servers which encrypt traffic.