Help for an absolute noob (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ZombieInDaHead@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey there, dear community, I migrated here from reddit. I wanted to dabble in piracy (Udemy and Art-Courses) for a while, but never knew how to start + a VPN is quite pricey if I don‘t use it/ use it incorrectly.

I wanted to know if there are „beginner tutorials“ for MacOS (I‘m even new in this OS).

I read the Megathread and it was kinda helpful for me not to barge in blindly, but I‘m the kind of person who needs a little handholding

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[-] veroxii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I suspect they're thinking about port forwarding. For another torrent to connect inbound to you, you need to have a port open for inbound connections and most VPNs don't provide this as standard.

But you can still torrent if you don't have ports... But you can only initiate outbound connections to other peers. And it works two way... Those peers you connected to can request data from you without problem.

However if there are too many peers without ports then it becomes a problem because no-one can successfully connect with each other.