Regular users in Sweden are in danger because a corporation needs to fill their pockets. Studios are suing your ISPs to get to you.

Use I2P. It will hide your IP address (among the many things it can do), afford you more privacy and allow you to torrent freely, even without a VPN/seedbox. The catch? You’ll have to add the I2P trackers to your torrent.

I believe I2P is the way forward for piracy and I look forward to it getting bigger than it already is.

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    VPNs log your IP.

    But they don’t log the data going through. The IP alone will not be enough for a conviction at all. They also need to prove that you acquired/shared copyrighted content. Any proper VPN isn’t going to log that.

    But if you think like that I suppose you aren’t very interested in running TOR relays or exits either.

    No, I’m not at all interested in that either. I don’t want to risk any nefarious traffic that I have no control over running through my network.

    I get the appeal of I2P for torrenting and I can absolutely see the value it can bring. But as long as I will have to be a node for other random peoples traffic, I’ll pass.

    • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      I feel as though this take is fully fud. It sounds like a take that came from seeing tons of advertisements for vpns without really understanding how they work. Maybe I’m wrong about you. That said, in general, a VPN is not a great cloak for piracy.

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        If there was a completely zero percent risk that I would be used as a node for something truly horrible, I also wouldn’t mind. But I’d rather torrent with a slightly elevated risk rather than enabling things that should not be enabled. By torrenting with a VPN, at least I have the control over what happens on my network and exactly what data I’m part of sharing.

        • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          there is 0% risk until your country makes a law that prohibits any and all P2P communication. That would not only break torrents, but would thwart signal/telegram/whatsapp calls too, Jitsi meetings, probably google meet and zoom too, as all those use P2P traffic for performance.

          So far there are only such laws in far east countries, and the official java I2P router is smart enough to not participate in routing when you are in such a place.
          Also, I think for routing to work you need to open a port, without it that won’t be done.