[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Wow, OK. How does this work? Does it monitor swarms and log the IPs?

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Ah, thanks, that is a great tool

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for your answer. I'm well versed in Linux and Docker due to heavy personal and professional use. For me it is a I-cannot-know-what-I-don't-know situation. Your explanations of the tools helps quite a lot. When I have enough time again (maybe at the weekend) I will setup Mullvad and some of the mentioned tools, without loading first. Then, when I'm sure bout the setup I can start

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Just read about i2p for the first time. How slow is the download speed in real life? I could live with slow speeds, as long as it doesn't get ridiculously slow.

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Though that shouldn't help them if you are using a VPN, right? Then they cannot see my private IP, only the VPNs IP.

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Ah, thanks. I will definitely look further into that. Doing things in Docker containers is something I already do for many other self hosted services

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Thats what I have in my home network. Upstream is currently cloudflares 1.1.1.1

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

Sorry to hear that. How exactly are these traps made? Is there some code executed on your side, which reveals your true IP? Or how are they doing it?

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Crypto or cash VPNs being more suspicious for law enforcement is also a good point

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

XD cash over mail, ok. But I guess for only a couple of euros that is worth a try. They seem to be located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Might try that. Honestly their website is really based. Thats for the suggestion with cash over mail.

For what would I need port forwarding?

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

I'm having doubts about the VPN provider not logging. To trust them is a decision to be made. For simple things (like masking my internet usage when in a public wifi) I use my own OpenVPN server on my VPS. Though I cannot use this for piracy, since I'm the only user and it is directly liked to my name and address (through my VPS hoster).

About DNS: When I setup the VPN, the DNS queries should also go through there, right? Should I additionally look into DNS Sec? For my complete home network I already ditched the ISPs DNS server (currently using cloudflares 1.1.1.1). I probably would setup a VM in my NUC, that I got recently, for the services.

Thanks for your advice. I'm thinking about this for quite a while now. When I start sailing, I want to be prepared. Currently I'm collecting all the information. Then I will decide, if I want to try it.

[-] lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

Hey fellow german :D

Yeah, trusting the VPN provider to not log is a decision I was hesitant to make. Do you take precautions when paying for the VPN service, like paying with crypto or similar? I guess easiest would be paying via paypal or similar, but is that OK for opsec?

I guess I have to do a bit more research about trackers, which and how to use them. Thats for sharing your setup.

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Hi, I'd like to set the sails due to being frustrated with streaming services, but I have some questions beforehand. I hope, you can help me with that, since lurking and reading the Megathread/Wiki didn't really answer my questions. Thanks for your help.

  1. Is just using a fitting VPN (I've read about Mullvad and ProtonVPN in this community) safe enough to not get caught? I'm located in germany, so sharing even as much as a few kB of pirated content can cost me thousands of euros. I want to be really sure, that I won't get letters from some lawyer soon. All, that I've read so far is basically: Setup VPN and your Torrent software, including kill switch and maybe get into private trackers. Thats it. Is this really enough? Can I do more to be safe? What exactly is the risk with public trackers (as they are often mentioned as the "low hanging fruit" for copyright lawyers)?

  2. I've read the post The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking, which mentions many tools to setup. I'm sure these help me find and view content. But are there good resources explaining the functionalities of this software? I'm familiar with Docker and I know about Jellyfin, but it is really unclear to me, what exactly all the other tools do.

Big thanks from a long time lurker!

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