It was so easy when I was growing up. I would just type my search into LimeWire and if it turned out to be weird porn I would delete it. Then we had The Pirate Bay, and I could go through reviews to see whether something was a virus or not. Now all public sites I am aware of are riddled with viruses, and I am warned that attempting to download any of them will result in me receiving threatening letters from copyrights holders in the post.
Here is what I have discovered today, trying to pirate things again:
- The safest thing you can do is direct download from file share websites, but nobody says where these websites are.
- If you want to torrent files, you need to subscribe to an exclusive private tracker. To get access to a private tracker, you need to get lucky, or you need to go through a painstaking process of levelling up over months and months of seeding torrents from semi-private trackers until you get to an actual good one that may or may not have the content you are looking for.
- If you don't want to do this, you need to pay for a UseNet provider, then you need to register for a similarly exclusive UseNet index service, probably paid as well. There is no guarantee you will find what you are looking for on here either, and there is a chance that your download will fail.
- Whether you are using torrents or UseNet, you need a service to help you find the content in the first place, for example Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr. Something called Jackett also fits into this somehow and apparently links to whatever indexes you are using.
- If you are torrenting, you then need a torrent client such as qBitTorrent to actually get the files.
- If you are using UseNet, you need a UseNet downloader such as jdownloader.
- Alternatively, for either option you can pay for a Debrid service such as Real-Debrid or Premiumize to download the files for you, if you send them the links. Besides protecting your privacy and your bandwidth, these services are also great for bypassing the limits on the elusive direct download sites nobody can tell me any more about.
I don't really think of myself as a stupid person but this shit is so confusing. It is harder than paying for drugs on the dark web with illegal crypto currency. Am I nearly there? Is this everything? If I pay for a UseNet provider and somehow register for a UseNet index, is it as simple as connecting the two together to something such as Sonarr to find the content and jdownloader to get it?
I just wanna have my own home streaming service.
Gluetun ensures that the containers are properly connected to the vpn and that port forwarding is enabled which can be a pain in the ass.
Npm = nginxproxymanager, it forwards external requests to the right port where the containers are such that you can reach your jellyfin instance on your selfhosted/rented server
Yeah, npm might not be a great abbreviation for that. npm = node package manager, which is big in node.js and javascript.
For routing all traffic through the VPN, I use the systemd-resolved custom script
And that port forwards properly?
What do you mean properly?
My home server isn't remotely accessible if that's what you're asking.
But there are no DNS leaks and all my containers work fine.
(Forgive my ineptitude, I'm still new to advanced networking and home servers in general)
I see the difference is Gluetun is used to route some traffic through the VPN. I don't have a need for that, so I use the script to route all my traffic through the VPN.
Do you torrent? Torrenting needs open ports
Yeah I torrent, I haven't manually configured any ports though. IP is hidden according to iknowwhatyoudownloaded
In case you ecncounter difficulties to find peers then it's because of ports. You'll find more peers with open ports and port forwarding of a vpn. It's a bad limitation of the protocoll, imo. I2p may solve it when we switch to it (if we ever switch to it).
I've not had any issues to date, but good to know, thanks :)