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

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.

[-] AntiBigotBrigade@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah i dump everything into the box now. My qbit hasnt been updated in years lmao. Its convenient when i can use it to stream too lol

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