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Regular users in Sweden are in danger because a corporation needs to fill their pockets. Studios are suing your ISPs to get to you.

Use I2P. It will hide your IP address (among the many things it can do), afford you more privacy and allow you to torrent freely, even without a VPN/seedbox. The catch? You'll have to add the I2P trackers to your torrent.

I believe I2P is the way forward for piracy and I look forward to it getting bigger than it already is.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Another question would be how to make a seedbox service use I2P. I have seem some but none of those didn't mention I2P as a feature

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, that's a bit of a problem on the average seedbox. You'd have to modify your torrent to seed on I2P by adding I2P trackers (just a couple of them, nothing much), and then run either BiglyBT or I2PSnark to seed them on I2P. Unfortunately, most seedboxes don't give you root access, neither do they bundle these apps. Qbittorrent doesn't have good support for it yet unfortunately.

If you have an SBC/spare computer at home, would be great if you could attach a hard drive to it, install i2p/i2pd and either of the mentioned torrent clients, and seed from there in the meantime. Qbittorrent has seen community interest in I2P, unfortunately it's just not there yet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have lots of questions. I’ve always heard to use a VPN that doesn’t keep logs, this is the first I’ve heard of i2p. If I add i2p trackers that implies I still have non-i2p trackers so can still be identified. I feel like I need way more information on how to do this safely before I change anything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Obviously, this doesn't change anything if you're still seeding to the clearnet. All this would do is cross-seed your torrents to the I2P network. I assume you have a suitable torrenting strategy already for the clearnet. If some day you were to abandon the clearnet for I2P, you would no longer need to take the precautions you do now because I2P is inherently private.

Please skim through the documentation for a high-level overview on I2P, and ask here if you don't understand something

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

yes! Please seed more on i2p!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

100% right this is the way of helping the piracy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't used I2P since high school or maybe earlier if it existed then. Was it one of those faster the more people are using it things? I was skimming over setting up the docker container thinking even if I don't use it myself it might help others (and I have unlimited data on the isp plan) but I haven't gotten around to actually setting it up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Yes, because it's P2P, every node acts as a router and thus distributes bandwidth to prevent congestion

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it difficult to setup?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It's very easy to set up. Windows now has a slick installer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

remember kids do what johnny appleseed did and always seed more than you take.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

If only people with the resources would seed

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