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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello all,

I'm a huge amateur when it comes to this stuff (I had a guy hold my hand on the phone and walk me through this) but I use Newsgroupdirect and buy blocks when they go on sale.

Is there a better group to do this from (or cheaper). I'm happy here but I saw an article that had some different places listed and it got me thinking.

Which group do you use?

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[+] [email protected] -54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (19 children)

I won't pay for piracy and that includes a pointless piece of shit VPN that won't protect you anyways if things get serious.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (15 children)

I imagine it must be nice living in a place where your government doesn't care. Enjoy your free torrents. I'm ok with a few bucks here and there

[+] [email protected] -34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

C'mon you've plenty of private trackers you can join with an invite from someone else and nobody will easily track you like they can do in public torrents.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm kinda over this conversation. I posted asking for input, not someone being argumentative. If you had a stronger argument, maybe I'd change my ways and look into what you're saying. I politely tried to say I hear you, but I'm good with what I do and you keep digging. At no point have you said anything that makes a strong case, helpful to what I asked or isn't dismissive. Have a good night

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I do have an argument: https://lemmy.world/comment/7648533

Any free private tracker worth your time has DHT/PEX disabled thus making their torrents invisible for your typical govt / private entity searching for pirates. If those torrents aren't public and can't be searched indexed via DHT then the ISP or whatever knows you're using the bittorrent protocol but they don't know for what content. This particularly correct if you use sane settings in your torrent clients such as a blocklist + requiring encryption for all connections.

If you do those simple things and a use a private tracker you trust then your ISP/Govt can't point fingers at you, they've no way of knowing what you're downloading.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Are you saying that you haven't heard of media company affiliates prowling in such groups from invites given to them?

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