What are /r/digitalpiracy's favorite Products & Services?

From 3.5 billion Reddit comments

Chrome plug-in just changes your IP for web browsing, not for P2P/torrenting. Even more, I would suggest staying away form free VPN's -- who knows what they are collecting and they stay free. Personally I use NordVPN, speeds don't drop much and it feels pretty secure with no-log policy and out of 14 jurisdiction. And it seems that it supports Yosemite too:

They cannot detect what's on your computer. However, there a few things that you need to make sure you're doing right:

1. Run the VPN on startup and make it autoconnect to a server. Check ipleak.net whether the Ip has really changed. Only after the VPN has connected, run the torrent client manually.

2. Enable a kill switch when torrenting (you can only connect to the internet if your VPN is connected)

3. I personally use NordVPN and have socks5 proxy on my torrent client (https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/socks5/), I suggest setting one up on your torrent client as well

If you get a seedbox your ISP will only be able to view what you transfer from the seedbox to your home computer (if the transfer isn't encrypted). The lawyers won't be able to see your home IP downloading stuff so they won't report you to your ISP.

Instead they will perhaps report your seedbox IP to your seedbox provider or to your seedbox providers data centre (if they use one, which they will be.)

My advice: Get yourself an actual good VPN. For example, IVPN, Mullvad, AirVPN or if you want to pay significantly less, PIA.

You can torrent all you want with these from your home computer as your IP will be the VPN's and all of these offer total protection (OpenVPN, strong encryption, DNS Servers etc) and likely cheaper than a Seedbox.

However if you want fast speeds for your seeding files, get a seedbox just remember your ISP will be able to see you downloading from your seedbox if you use FTP without encryption or HTTP without encryption.

NB: streaming only, and current series (c.f. House season 2). But nice looking and packed site.

Also https://zooqle.com/ is good

https://filesharingtalk.com/what-trackers-offer/TV-Movies is links to TV show trackers, i.e. each link on this page is a TV show tracker.

Oops, I meant cyberlockers aka file hosters. They are more safe in the regard that copyright trolls don't actively monitor data traffic from cyberlockers. They go after big public torrent trackers like TPB, ExtraTorrent, RARBG, etc.. You'll be safe in not getting caught for pirating media. That doesn't mean all links from MEGA are safe. You'd have to get a solid source like /r/megalinks.

I know Windows 10 has a weird ipv6 issue with some VPNs. If you search PIA and Windows 10, you'll get a bunch of horror stories and support threads. I use ExpressVPN and haven't experienced any issues. Other than that, I don't know of any feature that hinders pirating.

Make sure you follow our guide for using torrent clients alongside Windscribe.

There are some helpful tips there like the exact order in which you should start the VPN and torrent download. If you have any questions, let me know and I'll be happy to answer.

> safely

As long as you encrypt the file with something with non-trival encryption like gpg you should be fine. If you post an unencrypted file it may trigger a fingerprint recognition as pirated content. Also rename the file to something like HomeVideosOfKitty before encrypting. GPG stores the name of the encrypted file in plaintext and is easily scaned. GPG can be kinda hard to learn, so you may just want to encrypt with a password using the -c switch instead of messing around with keyrings. So the whole procedure would look like:

1. Rename Game of Thorns s01e05.mp4 to HomeVideosOfKitty
2. Encrypt: gpg -c HomeVideosOfKitty
3. Enter a strong password
4. Upload HomeVideosOfKitty.gpg to dropbox or whatever (ensure you choose the encrypted .gpg file)
5. Text GF the password and the link.
6. GF downloads HomeVideosOfKitty.gpg
7. GF decrypts: gpg -d HomeVideosOfKitty.gpg
8. GF renames HomeVideosOfKitty to Game of Thorns s01e05.mp4

There are likely simpler encryption programs that you could find that avoid the command line, but there are few I trust as much as gpg.

If you're okay with slower speeds, I suggest using Tribler instead of VPNs.

And if you're set on using a VPN, then use one that's recommended by privacytools.

As u/Uber_Speng suggests, looks like 7-Zip might be the easiest solution, but I would only use 7z format when encrypting. Other formats will leak the filename (its in plaintext in the header).

I'd set the following options when you archive the file:

• Archive Format: 7z
• Compression Level: Store
• Enter a Strong password
• Encrypt file names: Checked

Happy ExpressVPN user here. Nord, Private, and CyberGhost are alos supposed to be good. Do NOT use a free VPN for torrenting as many don't allow it anyway and DO try to get a VPN that supports port forwarding.

I also torrented some stuff when I was 15, and got a scary letter. I am almost 17 now and not in jail. I started using a VPN afterwards. You'll be fine, my understanding is that they only really go after big fish. The scary letter is just that. Don't do it again and you'll be fine.

Also NordVPN accounts can be easily bought from grey market shops online and work decently well for how much you spend on them. Make sure to configure your client appropriately.

I 's not mainly the government. The people we're talking about protecting ourselves from, 99% of the time, are private corporate entities. Ad agencies, mostly. You don't get love letters for torrenting from the government, you get them from your internet service provider, who is usually sending them along because the IP owner or a company employed by them caught you in some way - in this case, it's usually something like using your VPN wrong, or the fact that NordVPN is intimately associated with some sketchy people and does some fucked up things (a lot of the time the public IP you're showing when you're connected to NordVPN is some random person's computer that's infected with malware, unless they have data centers on random farms in Texas).

The case we're talking about here definitely is not 'browser fingerprinting'. Like...speaking as an actual information security professional, that's fucking absurd.

Be aware of free VPNs, because then you're the product and they'll probably sell your data.

That said, ProtonVPN are good and have a free tier, but you can't use it for p2p.

Mullvad is like 5 euros a month, and is well worth it.

Most people insist on using VPN because mostly in 1st world countries, the companies sue people for illegal file sharing, mainly in USA only. They've made it a way to earn money from people, by turning a fine into something borderline extortion and cutting off internet and such The only other countries I can think of in Asia which might be strict on torrent are Japan and South Korea, but I don't know much about that. For Srilanka, I don't think you need to worry.

But if you still want to, then I would recommend paid VPNs such as expressVPN, protonVPN and such, as they are good. expressVPN was ranked high in 2020, and protonVPN has a free tier too. Others such as Mullvad VPN , TorGuard are good too

Honestly, you don't need to worry much cause these problems are mostly 1st world country related. But if you still want to, you can do your research about which VPN might suit your budget and needs

Hey I suggest windscribe its not much at 10gb/mo allocation but it has a really high speed with their compression/encryption codex. Hotspot by Pango has a 500mb allocation daily if you don't mind interrupted multiday torrenting. Betternet is ok, but I'm a lil sus because their business model is plausible but a little volatile.

My down speed improved a lot after I finally got a VPN.

I was noticing that I was having a hard time even getting above 1-2MB/s. I guess my ISP was slowly throttling my P2P traffic so I didn't notice it for a while.

I went with and the first torrent I loaded up, bam... 12MB/s.

For $5/mo. I couldn't be happier.

Depending where you are PIA is popular, I like LiquidVPN, neither are expensive. Avoid free VPN's as they have to make money somehow - tnstasafl

Some seedbox providers accept public torrent sites, you can rent a seedbox or VPS for $10-$15 or less depending on your space and speed requirements.

Check out /r/seedboxes /r/torrents and /r/trackers

My problem with Hotspot Shield for example is that they are really slow I am not sure if you know about they vpn but Airvpn and co are really fast? I am usually downloding with 3-4mb/s if I don't hide my IP.

I don't do any seeding only like whilst I am downloading tbh and I am not like crazy downloading 50gb/ month on torrents more like maybe 5gb/ month for a few series that come out in the US and I don't want to wait for them to be in germany especially not localised in german.