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Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I honestly don't believe I will have any legal trouble because I don't do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you do use a VPN for torrenting, ensure it supports port forwarding. You won't be able to seed if the provider doesn't allow port forwarding. Sharing is caring :)

AirVPN is currently one of the best VPNs that support port forwarding, but there's some others that do, too. NordVPN doesn't support it. There's an old list here: https://old.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/s9f36q/list_of_vpns_that_allow_portforwarding_2022/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Torrenting/seeding works great with Mullvad, which doesn't have port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How though? People that want the torrent can't connect to you if you're not forwarding a port.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can connect to people who have their ports open but not people who don't, when your ports aren't open

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can connect to them though. Peers that have their ports open can allow seeders to connect to them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do seeds actively connect to peers even when the download is complete? I haven't used BitTorrent in a very long time, but it didn't used to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I am not sure, possibly not. Of course this isn't the ideal scenario, this is why port forwarding is still recommended, but you probably still get away without using it, if you download mostly freeleach and popular torrents. That way you can 1:1 the ratio during the download.