The Picard ManeuverThe Next (De)Generation
Nurse_RobotSelfish, but much safer legally speaking
Yep, in my country it’s illegal to provide copyrighted material, but it’s legal to download for personal use. Sorry.
That’s what VPNs are there for! Ze German setup: gluetun and qbittorrent via docker, qbittorrent only going over gluetuns network.
This way we can return what we take tenfold and still come out on top!
You can also bind qbittorrent to the specific wan interface created by the vpn so it won’t seed or download if the vpn is off
It doesn’t see the interface if qbit is running in a docker container. That’s what gluetun is for.
Hiro8811As long as the VPN isn’t a front for residential proxies and routing bot traffic over your endpoint, doing god knows what.
What sketchy ass VPN’s have you been using?
Get something from a well known provider like Proton, iVPN, or Mullvad.
Proton and Mullvad are probably fine yeah, Nord and Surfshark are definitely very sus though, Nord even has known ties to Oxylabs.
“most of them are (if advertised heavily)” is quite a claim without data to back it up.
At least for the one I tested none of them sent additional traffic over my connection. That’s just one data point and I only looked to ones with port forwarding but still far away from your claim.
There are a shitload of VPN tests out there and testing id your connection gets used by third parties for not traffic is even possible for a layperson.
Please stop fear mongering without remedies or specifics.
Eh, “thing I really want, but provided for free” combined with “thing we really want you to use, for free” -
We should maybe put fear mongering directly on that, I think. Free things, that cost real money to provide, that cost no money to use - we should maybe fear monger a little.
Yeah that’s way more specific and can get behind - I don’t even test any “free” VPNs.
I didn’t intend to imply that VPNs are free.
Good chance I’m just annoyed and arguing with the wrong person, probably even about the wrong thing lol.
My b. I appreciate you.
ValmondOnce you’ve had a legal letter due to an accident and over eager lawyers with easily costs beginning at several thousands you might change your opinion.
And yes, I had that. For 3 hashes of 3 files of a TV series.
No it doesn’t. Because it’s not an opinion but a description on how to not get into the situation you’ve described - i.e. about personal security.
What I’ve described prevents a link between you and your online actions - that’s the whole point. It’s the defense against surveillance and can be applied on situations with way higher risk than just a fine.
Oh yeah! It’s sad that users have to have a technical education to use the Internet if laws and what at least I perceive as “right” fundamentally differ.
At least for the moment it’s only copy right for me personally - there are countries and laws where this need is way more fundamental :(