Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I don't really understand why everyone's telling you about torrents when you don't need them to watch movies. Like, it's nice if you want Blu Ray quality or have bad internet or something, but you don't need to download stuff unless you really want to. I just use uBlock Origin with Firefox and one of a few streaming sites. You can find a list here: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/movies-and-tv/ (Scroll down to streaming and try one out.) It works on mobile, too.

Sometimes you'll have to check multiple sites to find older, more obscure things, but for the most part they only really differ in their UI. Some anime sites even have options to skip the intro/outro and autoplay the next episode.

No one, in this entire thread, has thought of telling OP to sort by seeders. Are you all stupid? That's the most important thing

Check out Tribler. It uses a similar technology to Tor, but for torrents.

Kinda wish you'd be a little more detailed here.

So while everyone is telling you what to use. Let me tell you about how to behave as a pirate, least suggestively, not strictly. You need to not be a blip on the radar. Well how's that? You don't download gigs and gigs of data in a single day, you have to be a little more spread than that. Because even if you're safe under VPN and everything, if an ISP thinks you're being suspicious at any degree, they're gonna look into it.

I make sure I don't download more than I can chew and since I'm on a data cap of 350GB a month, it helps me enforce this. I've been at it for well over 25+ years so by this point, I've about acquired a lot of what I wanted so I'm in a little of my winding down period.

Try not to listen to the pirates that just boast about themselves and their habits, they're doing things you don't know about and are probably above your skill since obviously you claim to be very new at this.

Depends where you live and how enforced anti piracy laws are. I have downloaded stuff for 15 or so years through 3 or 4 different ISPs from static IP and have never had any issues.

Only thing that you could somehow call a protection is I do not use ISP owned DNS server.

VPN to a nice safe country like Switzerland.

Look into selfhosting the Servarr stack along side QBitTorrent, pick a media player such as Plex or Jellyfin. Easy free streaming.

You will want to find a proper torrent site, this is not going to be easy considering you’re new to this. Using public sites you get a world of other problems such as malware.

Getting a seed box is an option, then you can install a media server like Jellyfin. But a lot of reputable seed boxes don’t allow public trackers.

There are two schools of thought, and one of them is insanely wrong.

The current preferred method (by youngins) for pirating is by using a VPN provider to "hide" your torrent traffic, which is generally valid, but it's not a silver bullet and it's a wrong way to think.

The other is to use a seedbox, which is a remote server hosted in a country that doesn't recognize piracy as a crime to begin with...

The choice is clear. Especially when you consider to get a good private VPN you'll have to pay $5-10/mo. You may as well pay $5-10/mo to commit a crime where no one thinks its a crime, then you never have to worry about it. Using a VPN you can still get caught, it's just exceptionally rare because conditions have to line up perfectly. But what if your VPN is down, and you accidentally begin a download? You willing to get a $100,000 fine for that?

Just use a damn seedbox.

VPN, virtual machine and a good site to find torrents with seeds

Simple: https://fmhy.pages.dev/videopiracyguide#streaming-sites

More complex: Mullvad VPN, QBitTorrent, 1337x.to

Use a VPN. Here's a free one: https://riseup.net/en/vpn

Go to a torrent site, such as https://1337x.to/

Search the movie you want, find a torrent that suits you.

Download and watch.

Here's a free streaming site: https://hydrahd.sh/

On windows, I used Mullvad VPN and Qbittorrent. The settings suggested by Rodneyck are also what I used for qbittorrent.

And a tip: if you notice qbittorrent is not downloading your torrents but has lots of seeders and your VPN is connected... try restarting qbittorrent (right click the tray icon and quit) and it should start downloading.

If you're using windows, make sure you set it to show file extensions. Watch out for files with a double extension such as "mkv.exe". That's guaranteed to be malware. Don't open any link, bat or com files either.

VPN (always) and QBittorent. After starting your VPN, go into the Preferences > advanced settings> Optional IP to bind to > pull down the menu and find your current VPN's IP address and select it. Protected, even if your VPN goes down. You can add torrent search engines to QBittorent under the Search feature.

What do you have in terms of hardware?

What’s your experience?

I am happy to guide you through the steps needed.