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It seems so strange to me that we are locked in battle with providers mining our lives for whatever, and we have to work our asses off trying to stay anonymous, to the point of being denied service (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I'm like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don't want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don't want to "sign up."

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I'm not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that's enough.

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[-] themachine@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Depends on which tracker. In general though invites and you get invites by association with relevant groups. Sometimes open registration occurs (though rarely) an other times the trakcer may do interviews.

It mostly comes down to time and patience.

[-] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I got a pretty letter from speck_t_rum once.

Been a paranoid ever since.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Should’ve had a VPN up!

[-] themachine@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I don't see how thats relevant.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

VPN will encrypt your traffic so your ISP can't spy on you. That's the whole point of a VPN.

[-] themachine@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

But I wasn't even talking about vpns. Just private trackers and how to get into them.

[-] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It said stop torrenting or face a biiiig fine. I’ll try and follow the guides to avoid this but I’m still a bit paranoid. Maybe I was loooking for reassurance that vpn and private trackers are good enough.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I believe the only thing they could really do is drop you from their service (or I guess throttle you to high heaven)... I don't think a private company has the authority to impose fines, and I don't think these companies are actually following-up on these letters with real lawsuits as it would cost them way too much money.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

actually either or is good normally. Public tracker +VPN or private without.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wouldn't go without a VPN either way. Not a lot is really stopping copyright trolls from getting on some of the private trackers.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I torrented stuff on spectrum for years through a VPN without issue. Just make sure your torrent client is bound to the VPN network adapter only to prevent leaks.