Funds are limited at the moment and i’d rather not have a monthly subscription to worry about.
i’m not in the US, if that changes anything
In the UK I think it depends how much you torrent, how often, and who your ISP is. I’m pretty sure the big main ISPs all have to be vigilant and tell their customers off for doing it. I use a small ISP, and I set my upload speed to 10Mbits and my download to half my max bandwidth. I don’t seed a library of stuff just whatever is being downloaded, then I stop. So yes. I’m a leech and have been for years. No VPN. However we only torrent when we can’t get something on a service we already pay for so not more than 3 times a week.
tl;dr - in the UK use a small ISP and stay below the radar and you’ll be fine.
I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve heard that using a good private tracker is safe without a vpn
It’s safe as long as nobody breaks the rules. If law enforcement or copyright holders really wanted a login they could probably get an invite from somebody. The weak link in security is always going to be a person.
Once they infiltrated a private tracker, they’d either have to hack them or download every torrent they want to and track down the seeders. 90% of the seeders would probably be in a different country so, is it really worth their effort? They’re not going to get the people ripping the shows and movies.
So yes, I think getting caught on a private tracker is possible. Perhaps not probable.
Debrid services are usually cheaper (as low as $2.5/month), but you’re limited to public trackers with them.
That’s what I’ve been using for around 6 months, works great.
Depends on country. Depends on ISP. Look for how your ISP reponds to such things. Should be able to find info on that, I’d hope.
what keywords should i look out for? searching my ISP and “Piracy” makes is seem like they’re pretty active about this stuff
Probably gotta head into the terms of services and Privacist policy they have.
check if you can find customers who have reported receiving notices in the mail or actions taken on their customer accounts. try to find out what the penalties for violating their policy is.
if they are pretty active, you might be stuck resorting to encrypting all of your traffic, aka a vpn
with that vpn and some minor setup in your torrent client you can avoid all of this. for example in qbittorrent there is an option to “bind to interface” and you set it to bind to your vpn interface, so if the vpn goes down all your torrent traffic shuts down.
i use nord, haven’t had a single issue in years, and i have received notices at multiple addresses in the past. thus… had to get vpn if i wanted to continue safely 😞
Probably not, no.
Do you have any access to internet services without registering with your name?
Maybe at public transportation, in a mall… Please don’t bring trouble to any small businesses.
Be prepared to find usual ports blocked and research on how to randomize your MAC address.
I2P has a built in torrent client.
But you need a computer running 24/7. With i2p, the longer your session runs, the better the connection.
Maybe I am dumb, but I can’t find anything on i2p. And all the sites load incredibly slowly…
Postman tracker is the main one on i2p.
And the longer your i2p runs, the faster its connection.
For grabbing a torrent anonymously, there is nothing better.
Tribbler has a similar idea, but as they state in their website nothing has actually been tested against a motivated hacker earning big bucks from Hollywood. And their default settings just expose your ip address.
Without VPN or Usenet subscription it’s going to be difficult and/or illegal.
difficult and/or illegal.
I don’t think using a VPN gets you out of the illegal part, lol.
Since most VPNs no longer have port mapping it’s a pure download which would make it technically legal e.g. in Germany.
You can seed without port forwarding
Gets you out of the consequences part though, which is good enough.
i mean its always illegal no? you just dont get caught as easily with a VPN
No port mapping, no upload, so technically legal where only sharing is penalized. IANAL.
Look I2P. Don’t know for sure. But read somewhere that it can be used for privacy.
Slow, limited options, but great anonymity and free.
Sounds interesting, what are some good beginner guides to I2P?
A good start would be to check the website and go from there. I don’t know of a good, singular guide unfortunately—there are a couple different ways of going about torrenting on I2P.
I can confirm that torrenting on I2P works quite well! You may have to set aside a couple weeks per movie, though. Still, the torrent selection is decent, if not quite as good as what you would get on the clearnet. You’ll want to check the postman tracker (tracker2.postman.i2p) once you have everything set up.
I have a seedbox (ultra cc). The legally questionable part happens between the seeder and my seedbox IP. I download the files via SSH/SFTP with my blank IP. Since 7 years. No popo yet.
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im pretty sure no one who is able to aquire or already possesses a botnet would be asking such a question lmao
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There are very few countries where torrenting is safe. Generally speaking: No. You can try file hosters or other platforms, or share a VPN with a friend or use services similar to a VPN. AFAIK there is not alternative that’s as fast and convenient as Torrent, though.
Depends on the country. I once got some people in trouble when I passed through Germany because I didn’t know internet is heavily censored/surveilled there. Haven’t had trouble anywhere else though. Do some research on your country.
The biggest threats come from the movie industry. Just use streaming sites for movies and series, torrent the other stuff.
Look into Tribler, I2P and Utopia.
Not if you’re pirating stuff.
Windscribe is cheap. Just buy it. Like $30 a year.
You got $30? Some of us are so poor that even $30 has to be planned and budgeted for. And most places want all $30 for the year up front and won’t split it up into monthly payments. Not everyone can just plop down $30 at a moment’s notice.
Actually (even though you sound sarcastic, for the most part), you can buy windscribe on the Google play store. I use the Google rewards apk that gives me bits of change for for use in the play store by taking pictures of receipts or answering surveys. I earn more than $30 a year doing that, and so that’s how I get my windscribe vpn. So, yeah. You can do it without any money.
