If your IPS and the local authorities will not do anything if you download, upload and publish anything, what is the bare minimum of security measures you can do? Context: I live in Southamericas, here we have worse thing to deal with.
I just don’t care about any of that at all. I have around 100TB of seeding accumulated over the years, no VPN, zero security measures, nothing ever happened at all.
Meanwhile I went to school one day as a teen and had left the torrent up by accident seeding and 4 days later my isp called my parents saying that there was a huge fine coming my way if I didn’t cut it out. The isp was super small so the company they were the end user and they were nice enough to give us a heads up. The notice said something like 25,000 on it.
They probably cared because of the traffic, not the content.
Even so, this feller apparently has 100TB seeding perpetually… There’s no way 1 movie equals that traffic.
It’s just an anecdote about the other extreme for the sake of having both sides in the comments since I happened to be someone that it really happened to
Same. I keep reading “Use a von” everywhere but I just assume that’s a US thing. In Western Europe I never heard of a single country giving a shit about this
Legend ^
Me too, I have running a tor snowflake and i2pd instance on the same server I am seeding.
Those are low risk because the traffic doesn’t go to the internet.
I’m in the UK and while they make big talk of punishing cyber criminals I’ve never received as much as a cease and desist from an ISP despite running what is essentially a 24/7 seedbox from my home server for watching stuff via Plex
Be ware of using VPN if you want spanish content and wanna join a private tracker; all spanish private tracker ban the use of VPNs
My advice is to check if your ISP is blocking you from access to the sites you plan to use and pick one that doesn’t. If you plan to use torrent check if your ISP is outside CG-NAT (or let’s you leave it) to enable port forwarding
If your country doesn’t care about piracy do not complicate your life further till they care, just stay up to date. As for measures I always use independantly of context, I just recommend using
- Firefox with uBlock Origin and NoScript
- Bitwarden or other password manager
- A email relay services such as iCloud private relay or Duck email proxy
- Flee of companies that sell your data, such as Google, Meta, Tiktok, etc
Be ware of using VPN if you want spanish content and wanna join a private tracker; all spanish private tracker ban the use of VPNs
What’s the rationale for that?
No idea for their specific case, but usually because VPNs makes it easier to circumvent bans as far as I am aware that is the main reason.
Not like it helps much tough as most people have dynamic IPs anyway… Any IP you have a suspicious of being of a banned person could just be of another ISP customer… Or the banned guy could have now another ip… so a user could circumvent a ban without a VPN anyway. That’s I guess why most Trackers stopped caring about the VPN.
Another reason could be to avoid crawling the content… That again would be related with banning the user anyway and nowadays with Jackett and company that is either expected or there is an API for it.
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I’ve been pirating behind a cgnat for years. I get slightly fewer peers when I’m seeding (not that i seed all that much with my 8mbps upload), but apart from that there are no issues.
If they don’t care, you don’t need security.
Custom DNS and VPN, more secure would be Tor but its not everyday use fast.
