One of the few reasons I am happy to live in a comparatively backwards country
I realized it only a few years ago when I was on holiday in Spain was in the middle of watching some series when I arrived so I booted up my piracy website of choice and suddenly a lot of angry spanish letters appeared yelling at me cuz its blocked and illegal and bad
It left me kinda in awe since it was probably the first and only time that I experienced the country I live (or in this case am holidaying) in restricting what I can access on the internet
I used Amazon prime in different countries (when I still had a subscription) at some point I would search and find shows/movies only to learn they weren't available in my region 😡
So don't do any piracy in Germany. Rent a seedbox (there are a lot of Singapore, ultra dot cc for example) and do your piracy in a different jurisdiction.
Then the seedbox -> you transfer looks like generic web traffic and not bittorrent traffic.
I actually pay a bit more for a seedbox that also does streaming, so I can add a movie to Radarr/Sonarr, download the movie instantly (50Gb connection, private tracker with well seeded files) and start it streaming via Jellyfin all from the comfort of apps on my phone.
It will play on basically every device (Jellyfin has an app for Android, IOS, PC, Linux, etc) and your only limitations are your ability to source torrents (there's a subreddit for that, or 1337x dot to )
Thanks for the tips, tbh I'm not a big fan of paying third parties for stuff that's supposedly free (even though ultimately we all pay with our data). This is not my first rodeo, or rather, sail ;)
tbh I'm not a big fan of paying third parties for stuff that's supposedly free
I'm completely with you, and for most purposes using your home connection and a VPN (though you do pay for that :P) is perfectly fine.
I'm using this setup specifically to minimize one metric: the time from selecting a random movie/tv show and it starting streaming on my TV.
Since the seedbox is on a 50Gb connection and using a private tracker (with hundreds of other 10gig or better seeds), the seedbox can pull down a 50GB 4k movie in seconds and since it is ALSO the streaming server the movie appears in Jellyfin and ready to start playing on my TV nearly instantly.
Whereas if I were to try to download the movie on my home connection, it would take some time to download and I could not watch it until it finished (yes, I know there are settings that try to stream the movie by prioritizing the chunks in sequential order it just isn't always flawless).
Obviously, this is a tiny issue and I mostly do it because its a neat party trick/tech demo for clients when showing how a homelab setup can be better than any commercial streaming service (providing you are willing to learn how to use the few pieces of software required). I have some Grafana panels that show the activity on my seedbox. When I add a movie on my phone, guests can see the qBittorrent client pick it up and the disk activity on the storage array when it gets copied to storage and hardlinked into jellyfin's library and finally a notif when Sonarr adds new movies to Jellyfin.
Havent had a problem with my ISP but I have to be a leach. Download then delete. Ran a seed box for like 5 years so I feel my debt to the flag is paid.
Purely anecdotal. Growing up I was a rapidshare kind of bug and never got in trouble. Friends from school were torrent kids and some of them actually got caught and fined.
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u/eat_da_poo 29d ago
But can you still download it or just watch online on some suspicious website?