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submitted 9 months ago by LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello all,

I'm a huge amateur when it comes to this stuff (I had a guy hold my hand on the phone and walk me through this) but I use Newsgroupdirect and buy blocks when they go on sale.

Is there a better group to do this from (or cheaper). I'm happy here but I saw an article that had some different places listed and it got me thinking.

Which group do you use?

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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I do have an argument: https://lemmy.world/comment/7648533

Any free private tracker worth your time has DHT/PEX disabled thus making their torrents invisible for your typical govt / private entity searching for pirates. If those torrents aren't public and can't be searched indexed via DHT then the ISP or whatever knows you're using the bittorrent protocol but they don't know for what content. This particularly correct if you use sane settings in your torrent clients such as a blocklist + requiring encryption for all connections.

If you do those simple things and a use a private tracker you trust then your ISP/Govt can't point fingers at you, they've no way of knowing what you're downloading.