How to seed properly and safely? [India] (lemmy.ml)

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I heard that in some countries you can get fined for using torrents or seeding beyond a certain limit (Das Deutschlandlied intensifies). How to seed so that no idiot government would get hands on the fact that you are downloading torrents? I am pretty sure I can do this using Tails OS but what else? Is there a safe way to SEED TILL YOU BLEED?

It would have been nice if we (someone but not me) could have created a website where we could read a particular country's law and how to torrent safely from there.

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[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Seeding is safe when you aren't using P2P discovery functions. If it is a private tracker, and everything is encrypted, you'll never have any issues. Stay away from public torrents that aren't explicitly controlled by a tracker unless it's freely available data (like a Linux distro).

[-] Subject6051@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seeding is safe when you aren’t using P2P discovery functions.

edit: didn't downvote you. btw, is it true that you can see who downvoted you on lemmy? I don't want to but yeah idk seems somewhat interesting.

I am sorry, you would have to explain this to me :(

Also, what do you mean by private tracker, I create a torrent which has encrypted files and then I share that torrent & encryption keys with my friend. That kinda torrent?

[-] iso@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Most people understand the word "private tracker" as a website like piratebay which you can only enter if someone else invites you. It often involves a requirement to seed some amount back into the network.

There are some names of known private trackers out there, there are ways to get an invite, sometimes it even involves something as simple as a donation (that's how I got in, currently sitting on the leaderboard for amount of data seeded). Once you've entered one private tracker, there's also easy ways to enter others, since you show credibility and commitment.

I think that sums it up nicely.

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