Honestly, im scared to get into piracy because im afraid of getting in trouble or failing, basically im worried for no reason. I also have some random questions about piracy.

  1. should downloaded things be put on a internal or external hard drive. Because my external hard drive can be weird at times and i know some files required them to be installed internally.

  2. is there a way to help out the piracy community without breaking any rules or breaking the bank?

  3. are direct downloads safer or torrent, or something else?

that is all i have at the moment but feel free to add on to this if you wish too.

  • palarith@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Seedr.cc has a free account 2gb but totally usable

    There is also a free 10gb account for windscribe vpn

    Stick to reputable sites and use magnets

    • stifle867@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Tor is going to be way too slow in most cases to download anything sizeable. Most of Tor’s benefits are when browsing onion sites and used in conjunction with other tools.

    • neosheo@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Tor typically discourages torrenting. But i2p has torrenting capability built in and has there own trackers

  • Bernard Marx@lemmy.peoplever.seEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Your ISP can see torrent packets unless you are using a VPN. The other alternative is to setup a VPS and a torrent client on it. Then you download the completed files.

  • neosheo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    1. Doesn’t really matter imo. Internally maybe slightly faster, maybe some games require internal, but i run games on my external, loading may go slower unless you have a nice chunk of ram.

    2. Seed

    3. What do you mean by safer? Both can be dangerous if it executes code. If you mean getting caught torrenting leaks your ip address (hence why people use vpn)

    If you dont want to spend money there is i2p, set up an i2p router, configure a browser to use it, http://2.postman.i2p is a tracker there, just paste the magnet into i2psnark, no vpn required.

    Note it will be much slower download

    You can get started here: https://geti2p.net/en/

    • sharpiemarker@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      So I installed the i2p Android application but can’t figure out how to access i2psnark. Is it accessible from within the Android i2p app?

        • sharpiemarker@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Hmm, thank you for the suggestion. I’m wondering if I’m having issues because my i2p shows ipv4 as firewalled.

          • neosheo@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Hmm, i think you can work with firewalled. Mine shows as firewalled. Have you configured your browser to use the http://localhost:4444 as http proxy?

            If you have try to browse to the following addresses:

            http://localhost:7657 (this is the i2p router webui and if it doesnt load then either i2p is not running or is in a broken state)

            http://localhost:7657/i2psnark (i2psnark is built into java i2p and if the previous link loaded and this one doesnt then you dont have snark, which may simply be a limitation of androidl

            http://notbob.i2p (i just picked an i2p site, this one is an index of multiple i2p sites. If it doesnt load but the first one does, then your router is not working properly or your browser is not configured properly)

            http://localhost:7070 (if this loads then you have i2pd installed instead of the java version, i2pd is not built with snark)

            I suggest you install i2p on a computer as all this stuff works out of the box

    • QuietStorm@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      ive tried that and its great but they always have some sort of block that prevents you from downloading/copying dvds, and they only have so much and what if i want something like a video game or software, what do i do?

          • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Mint Linux, Ubuntu based, but works with flatpack instead of snapd, and doesn’t have tracking blah blahs by default. Extremely popular as well, so well supported.

            The one everyone says is best for gaming is Arch, but if you have trouble assembling an IKEA desk, stay away for now.

          • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            If your only use case is to rip CDs or whatever, any USB with more than a couple GB can act as a live disk, which basically lets you boot directly into linux from the USB. Installed packages don’t persist so maybe you can do some research to find a distro that has what you need built in. I’m 99% one exists that suits exactly your needs. I’ve literally just spent the last week installing and trying out different distros and Linux Mint is the best for set it and forget style linux.

  • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social
    01·
    1 year ago

    If you use a free service you are the product.

    Get a 2 year VPN subscription it will cost you next to nothing.

    Seed torrents if you want to be a good boy.