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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 9 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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[-] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

How do you get “good” private trackers man. Either they’re all empty or just seem impossible to get into

[-] vildis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Open signups happen frequently but you have to be quick to catch them

Opentrackers.org and r/opensignups (or r/trackersignups) are good to check once in a while

MyAnonaMouse has open applications twice a week and the test is very easy

[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

maaan, I have to go to reddit for that? Ewww

[-] themachine@lemmy.world 7 points 9 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 9 months ago

I got a pretty letter from speck_t_rum once.

Been a paranoid ever since.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Should’ve had a VPN up!

[-] themachine@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I don't see how thats relevant.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 1 points 9 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 9 months ago

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

[-] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 1 points 9 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 months ago

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

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 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.

[-] snowe@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

By not torrenting. Use Usenet instead. Way safer and easier. Once I went Usenet I literally haven’t touched a single torrent in over a decade.

[-] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Here we gooooo

Into the rabbit hole that is, idk what Usenet is

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

Newsgroups.
Basically (Its all afaik) bulletin boards and meant for groups juat chatting like we do here on reddit/lemmy.
But they also host binaries that (when put together) equal a movie file. Kinda like a multi-rar file.
Thwy usually have deals around black friday.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I'll be the first to preach Usenet for movies and shows, but I'm wondering if you've found it useful for gaming/ music.

[-] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I haven't tried it for gaming or music. Like always, piracy is a service problem. Spotify and Steam have solved the service problem so I pay for those. Haven't felt like pirating in a game in 14 years due to it, and spotify literally has every song I could ever want to listen to on the planet.