you'll be fine when using a VPN, just make sure it doesn't leak. in qbittorent you can assign the network interface directly to the VPN.
or get a seedbox
Bind your vpn to the torrent client. Do NOT trust the vpn's Killswitch. They can, and will, leak.
Been doing it for years. As the other commenter said, use the interface selection in qbt. Test it with a Ubuntu torrent (completely legal) and go from there.
Option one: Join private tracker communities, no need for a vpn here. You will find the majority of stuff here anyway, compared to public torrents.
Option two: Get and set up a vpn (preferable with port forwarding) in your bittorrent client. Bind your vpn connection to your network interface in qbittorrents advanced settings option page.
Option three: Use usenet, since there is no upload involved on your side you also need no vpn.
Piracy in Germany is kinda rare, don't expect to find many pirates in your private sphere. However if you find some, chances are they will try to stop your from torrenting and advise file hosters like ddownload or rapidgator. It's very common for German pirates, torrenting has a bad reputation due to law firms hunting down pirates.
Just be careful after updating qBittorrent, sometimes the update resets the network binding and you have to go in and fix it.
Probably missed a checkbox to keep settings or something, but it's better to confirm after upgrading, then miss a change and have your torrent run in the open.
Option one is kinda busted because your ISP can see what you’re doing. Also there have been cases of people getting sued anyway in semi-private trackers like IPT and TL.
ISPs don't spy on users, would violate GDPR.
Long story short: You'd get more money from your ISP than you'd pay to copyright trolls.
I always like to tell people about i2p. It can be very slow and you can't get torrents from the clearweb but it is the absolute top tier for privacy / not getting isp letters. Also if you do try it I recommend i2p+ which works on anything with java. (don't let the exe fool you it runs as a jar)
Edit - link: https://i2pplus.github.io/
I've been running qbittorrent in tandem with wireguard vpn in docker container for quite some time in germany
the harder challenge is actually finding german torrents at all
I'm still using one click hoster so far but I'm really interested in the *arr stack. Does it even make sense to set this up for German content? I also remember that German torrent content was rare.
What I've found is that some dudes claim, that there are good private trackers for german dubbed content. Even for ebooks there are places it seems. But what i've seen to be more often claimed is that there are large usenet communities with all the content you want. With these though, you once again have to pay the community with money. Just like with the oneclickhosters. I backed all those comments up. if you want to read the original statements, i could dig them out for you.
Edit: using the word "claim" since i am in no private tracker, as they always were closed for new guys and the usenet stuff - i didnt have time to find out wich respects my privacy enough, when it comes to payment methods.
Just to add to the conversation. German law firms get you by doing a honey pot attack. That means that they connect to the tracker as a downloaded to see who’s offering to upload. Then they send the info to your ISP to get your information and sue you.
This means that only real private trackers are kinda safe. If you go TL or IPT they may get in too, as these trackers are open for registration many times a year.
All in all, it is important to know how they try to track you.
I'm using this docker container for some years: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn Works well with my lifetime FastestVPN which I got for a few bucks some years ago.
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