I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If you do use a VPN for torrenting, ensure it supports port forwarding. You won’t be able to seed if the provider doesn’t allow port forwarding.

    • ISOmorph@feddit.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Torrenting/seeding works great with Mullvad, which doesn’t have port forwarding

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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        3 months ago

        How though? People that want the torrent can’t connect to you if you’re not forwarding a port.

        • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          You can connect to them though. Peers that have their ports open can allow seeders to connect to them

          • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Do seeds actively connect to peers even when the download is complete? I haven’t used BitTorrent in a very long time, but it didn’t used to do that.