The Next (De)Generation
Selfish, 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!

Once 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.

Okay, I think we’re on the same side here, I was just at a technicality.

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 :(