I wonder if there’s an anonymized version 9f torrenting software ?
At least theyre making the distinction
More reason to use a VPN.
They’re not trying to actually stop you; they’re trying to keep the lawyers at bay.
Or i2p.
And make sure it isn’t PIA… I am using it and i wasnt aware it was zionist controlled!
Mossad says hello. So does Palantir and Penlink. They are all drinking buddies. They drink data.
I paid for the sub… and I am strapping for cash for now. Once I am not I will find a different provider and ditch it.
Good luck. Avoid american vpns too
PIA is my third… or fourth, I dont remember. I used avast, nordvpn, expressvpn, and I even had McAfee come with my new (formerly) windows PC. But since McAfee is a sack of shit VPN with a logs policy it was no better than using no VPN.
What is your recommendation?
I personally use Proton but it has its own issues and is expensive for a lot of people. Ive heard good things about Mullvad too but havent looked into it
me with my vpn
Friendly reminder that the panopticon we live under today was considered horrifying a hundred years ago
Or even 25 years ago! They (and in many cases we) tried to warn them. Turns out the other “they” are happy to give it away for AI slop videos.
That’s not when they gave it away. It was well and truly gone 24 years ago lest terrorists win
It’s still horrifying today. We’re just powerless to stop it.
We didn’t start the fire…
But we’re tryin ta fight it 🎶
Ryan started the fire
It was always burning.
Speaking of which, I gave up on torrents a couple of years ago and switched to direct downloads. Not only is it much faster due to not having to rely on seeds, turns out that ISPs don’t actually care if you download pirated content. Distributing it is where they get you.
This is going to depend on the country that you’re in. Germany for example is pretty notorious for also going after the small fries.
Isn’t it harder to find direct downloads? Or am I just stuck in the past on the bay?
If you only want to download one song for free you can just Google it now.
Two words: Real Debrid.
I’m using Usenet , not sure what op is using though
What’s the best way to do that, presuming I already have access to a Usenet server but that’s really all I know?
I mean I’ve used Usenet before, but that was back in the late 90s using Netscape Communicator and I was mostly (but not exclusively) reading text groups. Most of my piracy back then involved trolling IRC channels to either find DCC bots or get access to FTPs. And even then was limited because, well, dialup.
It’s a bit complex to setup to be fair, you probably want to go to the site that cannot be named here and look for a Usenet guide.
The long and short of it is you probably still are going to need to sign up and pay for a Usenet server that focusses on files. I use newshosting as my primary server and usenet.bucket as my backup (you need to because DMCA)
You also need a tracker. I use nzbgeek. This is to search for files because they are all broken down fragments across the messageboards
Finally you need nzbget or some such to download the files
I then use sonarr and radarr to manage my downloads and Plex to watch the shows.
The last bit is just a nice to have.
I know it sounds like a lot, and it is a bit to get started, but it’s solid and just works once it’s going.
Usenet
Policing this crap isn’t trivial and not worth the effort.
We just gave up and block 100% of all P2P traffic on both our university wireless and student wired networks.
What do you mean by blocking “100% of all P2P traffic”?
100% of all P2P protocols, literally are blocked by our University F5 BigIP by rule.
All of them (including certain Lemmy features).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P2P_protocols
When your IT has a small budget, you do what you need to do in order to mitigate the actions of the few.
Sorry I still don’t understand. Did you just block typical ports?
No, there’s no direct port blocking involved because P2P can work on all ports.
As such, the F5 BigIP identifies the packets themselves with the p2p protocol in them and blocks the packets themselves that are identified as P2P.
This way, the only torrent traffic that may get through is the kind running inside a VPN. Even then though, we can identify encrypted torrents by other means (Deep Flow Inspection, trace the VPN traffic or directly monitor the student machines that are owned by the university).
In our corporate network, we just detect for common BT applications on the endpoint and alert on that instead.
Why would you care? Is it a legal issue of some sort?
Likely is. When a dorm resident does the torrenting, the university would be receiving those naughty letters.
Oh, those naughty letters! There’s a reason Seaseme Street is never brought to you by the letter J or Q. Such naughty letters.
Sorry, I’ve never lived in a country which bootlicked the copyright owners so much. I’ve read up on it and wow it sounds kinda insane, someone spies on your traffic and sends you legal threats for pirating stuff.
Eh yes and no. Usually a representative of the rightsholder will join the swarm of a torrent, note all the IP addresses, and send their love letters to every ISP on that list. From there, the ISPs will forward the letters and may take action depending on jurisdiction and local law, which usually amounts to soft threats or suspending your account after multiple interactions. It isn’t that the ISPs are spying on your traffic (at least in this instance), they just don’t want to get caught up in “enabling piracy” or whatever nonsense. Hence why VPNs are a thing.
I’m not saying it’s the ISPs spying on you, it’s the copyright owners; and the ISPs bend over to them (because the legal system forces them to).
My university just blacklisted the questionable trackers’ DNS, not the actual data traffic
So basically I would tether to my cell phone, wait for it to fetch a list of peers from the tracker, and then switch back to the uni wifi to complete the download
Why would anyone, anywhere block torrenting? There is nothing illegal about it.
because IP holders have enough pull to make their bitching and moaning heard instead of fixing inherent issues to force people into piracy.
Coming from an IT perspective, I can tell you 100% that torrenting on a network can cause a bottleneck with the amount of bandwidth that it often can take especially if it’s not set up properly. Several years ago I remember working in a corporate network and we had our internet slow down to a near crawl because one person decided they wanted to torrent a movie during one of our busiest seasons. Let’s just say we’re able to track them down and they got fired on the spot.
That’s interesting, I always figured the router/OS or whatever did a decent job balancing network resources regardless of the type of application.
The feature is called QoS, and is available on even the cheapest router. Torrenting can cause network issues, at least on crappy infrastructure, not because of bandwidth usage, but because it opens a lot of connections and can overload a router if it doesn’t have enough RAM.
Tracking down and firing someone to cover your corporate iT incompetence is certainly a choice.
Well you also have to remember this was about 10 years ago Network infrastructure isn’t quite what it is today. Not only that but when somebody does something illegal on a corporate network that is something that legal deals with and is not a choice that is made lightly.
Pretty sure they were fired for engaging in illegal activities on their work hardware, not for torrenting on a network that couldn’t handle it.
If it were a Linux ISO I’m sure it would have been a slap on the wrist and a “hey don’t do that again our network can’t handle it” but it was a film, Something the company can (theoretically) get in trouble for
Yeah we did have instruction place to be able to do legal torrents. Our programmers and IT department often downloaded ISO images firmware etc that were only available by a torrent.
A better solution would just be to limit connections per client.
Or, not do illegal shit on a corporate network. Maybe do that shit on your own at home?
NGL firing someone for downloading a movie seems like overkill
Potentially opening up a issue with the internet service provider and other fines for the company you work for knowingly by doing something idiotic like downloading seems like a bad move.
Knowingly pirating a movie on a company network and it causing a lot of disturbance for everyone else is pretty bad. Also could’ve been a new hire in probation period or something.
sounds like bad network admin. no single device should ever be able to make 100s or thousands of simultaneous connections, and the bandwidth should be reasonably throttled to prevent this.
It is bad network admin but if it was on a trusted network segment it’s not entirely unexpected.
Again, they knowingly did something illegal with company property.
Ideally they wouldn’t be able to bring the network to it’s knees like that, but sometimes one user behaving how they aren’t supposed to can highlight areas of improvement in the network configuration.
As JackbyDev@programming.dev said, they knowingly did something illegal that isn’t work related on company property and caused an effective outage in the process, which on its own can be a fireable offense, but if performed by an employee who was already on thin ice, it’s an easy out for their manager to get rid of them of they didn’t have enough reason to let them go beforehand
Do you want real answers or are you just expressing frustration? Because if you’re just expressing frustration then the answers will just frustrate you more lol.
Laziness, much easier to just block it than try to prevent only illegal torrents
Glad they don’t see the porn.
debrid services for the win! just let someone else torrent it for you, and download it from them.
AllDebrid costs €3 a month and saves you any legal headaches.
nice
I am saving that…
I think in the US at least even doing that is a no-no unfortunately.
It doesn’t provide legal safety here in the states, you’ll wanna use some kind of anonymizing service.
If, however, you plan to do lots of streaming of your torrents, it is absolutely the best way to go. I am familiar with RealDebrid, which is a similar service. Its good stuff, probably pay with cash-by-mail or cryptocurrency though.
Yeah seems like a reasonable approach.
thx for clearing that up! in Europe at least, consumer protection laws cover downloads (“you’re a moron who doesn’t know what you’re actually downloading and whether it is legal”), but seeding == distributing, which is a punishable offence
*should really learn how to block the leeches from debrid services, because they contribute* *nothing* to the pool…*
AllDebrid retains files for 30 days and must be seeding a ton (how would they get high download speed otherwise?), what am i missing here?
the caching of files also helps, since they’re only leeched once, then downloaded from their servers by potentially more than one user
You say you can tell what I’m downloading? Mullvad says otherwise.
I got “busted” downloading Debian once lol
Of course, never download Debian buster or you’ll get busted.
Sounds like a bunch of us should put up seeds with titles like “This (1947) It’s A Wonderful Life (Public Domain) is better than (2025) Fantastic Four”
I like your style.
The Paw Patrol movie? Really?
As a parent I must ask - which one of the many paw patrol movies do you think is “The Paw Patrol movie”?
I chose that specific wording because there must be at least a dozen of them, and I don’t actually want to know the truth.
Close! 9 already, special this year + a new dino movie for 2026 will make it 11…
And now you know. I’m sorry, but I’m glad to share the pain of this knowledge.
You motherfucker
No one is safe from Paw Patrol!
Seriously though. Chase has fucking spy cameras and a spy drone. His car is armor plated.
The true story of Chase is going to come out that he’s been kicked out of dozens of departments for police brutality and planting evidence, I fucking guarantee it.
ACAB (All Chases Are Bastards)
The image talks about the new one at the top.
Yes, and I replied to a comment with “The Paw Patrol Movie” with a joking comment about how many there were.
There is even a Christmas special coming out this year. Paw Patrol: The Movie (which came out in 2021) isnt the newest, The Mighty Movie is (2023). Which is also funny because the Paw Patrol Movie came out in 2016, and there already was a Mighty Pups movie in 2018.
And 4 more movies from then until the 2021 version. And 2 between the Paw Patrol and Mighty Pups movies from 2016 and 2018 respectively.
I must bow to your encyclopaedic (or IMDBic) knowledge of Paw Patrol films.
Sounds like the poster maker picked a good film to reference there being a new one of.
Two kids under 8 will do that to you.
Especially when you run your own media server and curate carefully what is OK for them to watch.
Ive watched K Pop Demon Hunters so many times already. I know the lyrics. I know the lyrics better than my kids…
Its a good thing I liked it.
Paw Patrol? Not so much. But the movies are better than the shit show (which I don’t have available for them, the mayor in the show is such a dick)
They’re just trying not to lose their internet service provider probably. ISP’s are even starting to threaten their residential and commercial customers alike because they can’t afford the lawsuits so network tech’s are starting to turn in individuals about compliance and such.
Yeah, this is just a student-run association running it, providing connection from university’s upstream ISP which apparently is easy to upset.
I posted this because I actually find this nice, as it doesn’t fully block torrents, but just specific ones, and they also make that clear. They could just block torrents and stay safe.Func fact: Some dorm rooms apparently actually have 2.5Gbit. I’ve seen the speed test. Of course, you’ll need a compatible network card. Most have “only” a gigabit.
Not a new thing either z this has happened for decades now
Use a VPN, people! The “we’re watching you” is not a joke, LOADS of parties are watching your every action, actually
In that case they should have been promoting VPN usage ‘’(^-^)
