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How do I learn how to do this and not get caught?
Piracy community on the dbzero lemmy server is quite helpful. Run by the piracy subreddit former head admin.
Awesome. I'll check it out
If you live in a country that hunt pirates you will probably just need to get a VPN (I'm not from a fancy country but I believe it is cheaper than Disney there) and download stremio.
I'm in the US, so I will need a VPN. Any VPN recommendations? And is stremio like a streaming service but not for money?
Don’t know if they’re free but Mullvad VPN is great. Proton VPN is also good.
I looked into both and they are both affordable for me. Do you prefer one over the other?
Yes, but I'm not telling which one.
I prefer mullvad but I had to stop using it on my personal devices due to it getting blocked on certain networks. For my server it's perfectly fine. They don't offer a way to do auto pay and buying credits can be a bit weird but that's the only thing I'd say is a minor downside.
Mozilla vpn is actually mullvad but is also about twice the price.
Hm. I like autopay. I'll probably look into other options.
Mullvad. The just had a security audit and came out 💯.
Mullvad doesn't allow port forwarding anymore which makes it less useful if you want to actually seed and not just leech.
But mullvad is great otherwise and doesn't even require any personal data to buy. They just give you an account number.
What is seed and leech?
Torrents are peer-to-peer (p2p), so anyone is a equal participant. If you download (leech) a file you connect to other user who also have part of the file and upload (seed) it to you.
This means a torrent can only be downloaded if enough users have the file sitting in their torrent client and upload it to others. That is called seeding.
If people download the torrent and don't continue to seed it after finishing the network takes a hit since someone else has to upload that much more. If not enough people seed the speed is either slow or the torrent might die completely if no one who has the complete file seeds the torrent.
So a good torrent user would ideally wait until they uploaded the same amount of data that they downloaded. E.g. they have a 1:1 up/down ratio on the torrent or at least seed it for a few days/weeks.
An open port is important so other people can downlaod from you. A VPN without portforwarding means you most certainly won't seed much since only people with portforwarding themselves can download from you.
tl;dr
Seeder because they allow others to download the file and seed it in return. Leecher because they don't help the network but consume bandwidth.
Streamio only uploads while watching so it's unlikely to come anywhere close to a 1:1 ratio. Real-debrid also doesn't seed after they downloaded the file because that'd cost them bandwidth and thus money.
I’ve used Private Internet Access for years.
I'll check it out
I'd avoid PIA. They were bought out by a "former" spyware company. Wouldn't trust them.
Oh jeez okay
An alternative to a VPN is to use I2P, which is free but requires some technical setup.
How technical?
It's been a while, but I just had a look at the Download page and it looks fairly straightforward. It's essentially install and start a package, then configure your browser to use the proxy. There's even an 'easy install' package for Windows now.
Oh that's awesome
airvpn has been good after mullvad removed port forwarding. Proton looks like another good option. If you setup a torrent client, make sure you bind it to the VPN interface. Search how to do this, there's lots of good documentation. And also run an IP leak test in a browser.
Okay. I think I got this. Hopefully my ISP doesn't catch on somehow lol
Stremio is an APP that downloads movies and series from torrents while you watch, actually it just shows you things from addons you add to it, technically you can add addons from paid services like apple, and amazon video, but you can also add addons like torrentio that aggregate a lot of torrent sources.
It integrates with IMDB and download subtitles automatically from open subtitles, it is very feature complete, you would probably just have problems with too old or niche movies that have a low number of seeders but you can always right click on the moving while running, copy magnet link and put in an torrent downloader like qbittorrent.
Just take care with your vpn, make sure you check the option of your VPN to shutdown the internet in case the VPN disconnect automatically (usually is default) so you don't have the risk to accidentally download part of your torrent out of the VPN. As long I know US is crazy when talk about piracy.
If you use real debrid with stremio you won't need to use a VPN
Real debrid is that service that stores torrents to download directly? If so, there is an integration with stremio?
Yes, Stremio integrates with real-debrid and stores torrents. This allows for easy streaming.
But they don't seed longer than they download, so they aren't exactly great for the network (but many people don't upload enough anyway).