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
Fastvpn is almost 1$ a month if you are a new customer
Why would torrenting be unsafe or illegal? It’s not illegal to download files peer to peer, at least in the UK. Where are you located?
However, in the UK at least, the ISPs are required to log your activity and pass on to the relevant authorities if requested. Best to use an approved VPN to be sure.
I’d be curious how many account holders in the UK have actually been prosecuted for copyright infringement.
In nearly two decades with the same ISP (Telewest > Blueyonder > VirginMedia) I’ve had a grand total of two emails from them with no teeth in it, and still download what I want from public trackers to this day.
I get an actual letter from them? Yay, free toilet paper!
*typo
Same in France. It’s legal to leech but illegal to seed. But it’s easy for a beginner to get confused and seed without knowing, so we still do not advise torrenting to everyone
Why would it be illegal to use peer to peer technology, at all? I can understand making piracy illegal - I don’t agree with it, but I understand - but making it illegal to torrent anything?
Oh no it’s not. I said it’s illegal to seed but I should have said “it’s illegal to seed pirated material”
No. Not unless you want a nasty-gram from your ISP.
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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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I’d do it via a seedbox. This way you won’t run into ip leaks.
Depends on the country, in Russia I have been pirating without a VPN for over a year without problems.
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.
Private trackers.
And the more exclusive the private tracker the safer you are
I wouldn’t rely on that being mole free. Check your tracker’s rules before using a VPN. They might require a static IP.
Cloud Torrenting. Go to TG and Find some free leech group. If you want list then PM me.
isn’t leaching bad?
You want to seed the torrent too?
i though it was a matter of politeness really, this is my first time torrenting
Oh cool
I use a private tracker and never get any mentions from my ISP because the studios aren’t on the private trackers to search for IPs because they don’t get invited and also would get banned for not seeding.
I made the mistake of using a public tracker to download something I couldn’t find on my private tracker and got forwarded a DMCA notice the next day by my ISP.
I let me VPN lapse a day and my ISP reported 11 takedowns. They warned me (because they don’t want to lose a customer). Blocklists aren’t good enough anymore.
It really depends on your country and ISP.
I’ve never used a VPN, except I guess for work, and never heard boo out of anyone over where I chose to park my ship
Without VPN or Usenet subscription it’s going to be difficult and/or illegal.
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.
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.
Probably not, no.
