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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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Copyright warnings are fairly common in developed nations like much of western Europe and say, US right? Do they result in prosecutions as well( would it be worth it for an ISP to take an individual user to court and spend time and money on it?)
Copyright warnings are almost unknown in my country or much of the underdeveloped / developing world.
I don't believe the ISP would have legal standing to take you to court, as they don't hold the copyright.
They're in the middle, being told hy copyright holders that someone using their service is violating copyright, and they must "do something".
Eventually they may shut off your service, but I haven't heard of it happening since the early 2000's.
No prosecutions in many many years.
But, with the new oligarchy dictatorship in progress... I would not be surprised to see Sony get some bills passed to have ISPs cut you off permanently.
In my experience in Canada, no, not at all. I've only had two but the impression I got was the ISP is legally obligated to pass the notice along and nothing more. The companies complaining are likely American and the ISP want to keep me as a regular paying customer.
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I have hundreds of those. I'm in Canada though so I don't care.
I collect these like pokemon 🙃
Teksavvy is fantastic
Yo this kind of talk got lawyers going after reddit to prove some isp is complicit. Y'all gonna turn the eye of sauron on us! 😖
Based TekSavvy user
LMFAOOOO
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I don't use a VPN, and haven't got a letter from my ISP in all the years I've been pirating.
This!
I haven't had one since an idiot roommate decided they wanted to fuck around. I fixed the problem (no more roommate).
Been 20 years now.
VPN seems a way to screw up decent performance when all you need is to stay away from public trackers.
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What are you downloading? Movies, games, etc
"Linux ISO's" lol
Huh?
ive not had any leaking since i setup my torrenting container(deluge is my fav) to use the openvpn container(gluetun) for its internet. theres zero chance it can leak, nothing to 'forget to turn on'.. kinda idiotproof, which i needed
gluetun is your friend
Gluetun can also be configured to write it's forwarded port to a text file (if your VPN provider supports port forwarding), and then I have a custom script that runs when my qbittorrent container starts to read the port number and change the listening port in the config file. Works great!
gluetun is dope! i just setup a podman pod with gluetun and deluge.
How do you manage your podman pod? I just manually wrote it out into a script just this past week, but it seems inelegant to do all these commands so manually.
ive been using quadlets. i manually wrote out the container, pod, and network files, because I'm still learning about now everything works. now that I kinda get it, I'll probably figure out how kube files work and just have a yaml file for a pod.
Cool! I'll definitely check that out. Thanks!
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Were you using a public or private tracker?
Public I assume, I'm pretty new to torrenting and haven't really dove into private trackers yet. Any resources your recommend on reading up on that?
~~/r/opentrackers~~ /r/opensignups to find openings and read the rules of wherever you're joining. Typically, they just want you to seed for X amount of time within Y days. I've also been temporarily banned once for not having any activity several days after joining on one of the more popular sites.
That sub was banned. There is r/OpenSignups though. You can monitor the rss feed if you don't want to go on reddit.
I'll take a look at this. Is there any downsides to private trackers?
Mainly just that you need to maintain a fairly high seed ratio to keep access. A lot of trackers will limit how many concurrent torrents you can have, based on your seed ratio. And depending on the tracker and the media that you want to download, you sometimes run into situations where just nobody else wants what you're seeding, or where the torrent has so many seeds that you barely get to contribute.
Last time I was on a private tracker, I was one of only like 3 other users who were downloading episodes of Doctor Who. I could seed those for months, and never go above 1.0 because there just wasn't interest in that.
I'm not sure if this is considered a good practice or not, but what I ended up doing was occasionally torrenting something that was really popular, even if I had no interest in it, just so that I could seed something. It definitely helped to keep my ratio up, and as far as I can tell it's overall a net benefit to the network as a whole, so I don't think tracker admins would have issue with it. But it just felt weird, to me.
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It can be tough to get an invite to a private tracker, but that's all I've been using in my 20 years of torrenting and I've never received an ISP letter. I don't use a VPN. Just keep an eye out for open sign-ups. Once you're in, it's essential to keep a good ratio.
Tormenting? That sounds a bit extreme
Lmao Oops, fixed
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