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Keep Seeding (lemmy.one)
submitted 1 year ago by monty@lemmy.one to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.

I finally got it, and decided I'd seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I'll just keep this one going.

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[-] DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

How effective are VPNs at preventing this? I've heard it recommended the most as a counter measure.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago

VPN's solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP's of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.

If it's an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don't achieve anything and if it's not a german IP they can't do anything anyway.

They mostly go for the easy targets since that's their easy business.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

This is the way. qBittorrent even has an interface option. You can set that to your VPN and it's basically a killswitch. I've still got mullvads killswitch option enabled on top of it tho. It just cuts your internet connection, if you ever drop the connection to their servers.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Oh right. Binding to the VPN network interface is really important.

It gives peace of mind. One time I noticed the VPN was off and qBit still ran and I didn't bind to the interface. Luckily it was fine.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

VPN's solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP's of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.

If it's an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don't achieve anything and if it's not a german IP they can't do anything anyway.

They mostly go for the easy targets since that's their easy business.

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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