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Torrents and Copyrights
Hello!
I'd like to ask how to hide our asses from the people who monitor big torrent trackers looking for seeders and leachers? Once they see our IPs they send abuses to hosters.
I use qbittorrent and I know I have to disable: UPnP, DHT, PeX, Local peer discovery to find more peers. Also to set '0' for "Maximum active uploads", enable "Anonymous mode" and force "Require encryption". Does this really help in resolving the issue?
I set all I wrote about but it seems like qb can seed a little bit even if you forbade it. For example I downloaded one 2GB movie and qb says me I seeded 20kb of that movie.
Yes I know that there are a lot of hosters that allow/dissalow torrents and I even know the one who doesn't care and doesn't even respond to complaints from rightholders. I want to get advice on the occasion when a hoster allows torrents, but has to respond to complaints if rightholders send them.
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If you're downloading a Linux ISO via BitTorrent, your IP will show up in the peer list.
If you don't want people to know you're downloading a Linux ISO (Debian thx), you need to use a VPN.
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There are no other alternatives.
If you connect to a swarm from your home IP it will get logged if there is someone in that swarm with malicious intentions.
If you want a hoster that does not care, there are too many to list.
If you want a hoster that cares, but allows you to do it as long as you dont get abuses, there are even more hosts out there to list.
If you want a hoster that cares, but allows you to do it as long as you RESPOND to abuses, then its literally 99% of the hosts here.
Quoting @AnthonySmith
I have a VPS with VPN onboard. The question is - how to avoid abuses from rightholders? For example. I use VPN, I downloand "Shazam!", a rightholder sends an abuse to my hoster, a hoster sends me a warning mail. Ho to hide my VPS IP from those rightholders? In 2010 as I know there was a program named PeerBlock or BlockPeer that hides IPs of seeders from rightholders.
Use private trackers then. Peerblock is outdated as hell. I used that back in 2010 myself. Blocking corporate ASNs wont help if they rent a dedicated server from some big hoster to do the peer survey, or connect from colocation datacenter.
Blocklist authors only list confirmed ASN related IPs there that are used in offices and so on. They have no way of knowing if a normal peer in the swarm is actually recording other peers or not. Therefore the entire list is based on assumption that the recording bots connect from inside the office IP ranges.
We know that MarkMonitor uses normal datacenters which they disclosed themselves before.
You are a leecher.
People can still see others people's IP with private trackers.
But the chances of rightsholders being in the same tracker is close to zero.
why? if i were a rightsholder it'd make sense for me infiltrate private trackers as a priority and ruin their rep for being private
Cause it has never happened before yet. Only rumors so far, and even those are from IPT where you can buy your way in. Its much easier to just go after the admins and close down the site than infiltrate inside and track it's users. This is at least how BREIN does it.
Using iptorrents on hetzners servers for years, never had any issues.
Why not a seedbox and all problem solved
That makes too much sense, can't have that around here, can we now?
What are your qb settings?
Does it matter? Rightholders can send abuses if you downloand torrents thru VPN or thru a seedbox. It's doesn't really matter they just spot your IP and send abuses to your hoster.
Ok then, I'm trying to get vps with yunohost and transmission app but could not get working yet. Maybe this can replace seedbox easier without setting up ruttorrent
Just use the rtinst script, don't bother doing anything manually unless you have to, usually there's a shell script, Ansible playbook or Docker image available.
Rtinst is the best. Minimal. Doesn't try to do Too Much
You don't want a VPN client on your mail server. Your mail server will get blacklisted and other problems. Get another server.
What? How are you going to get the abuse notification if using a VPN? The VPN uses a shared IP.
Not quite.
Look for unlimited transfer home local ISPs with "corporate" NAT.
Quite likely they don't have the infrastructure to log all connection states all the time themselves.
Albeit NetFlow and TrafficFlow exist...
It's detrimental for p2p if everybody does it, but when life gives you NAT, you have to share linux
ISOs.
Bonus points if the ISP actively rotates the external IPs per connection state.
But, have in mind that connections behind nats are subjected to all sorts of paranormal activities and timeouts...
Even Google won't like you and shall ask you to fill in captchas.
Ok, we need to list host that doesn't care.... asking for a friend :-) .
Because I only know one in Romania who is rather famous here.
OVH, Online.net, Ecatel/Novogora, BuyVM LUX just to new a few.
Solution is simple. Don’t steal someone’s work and that someone’s legally appointed agents won’t be going after you.
You surely didn’t come here to get an advice how to float the law, did you ?
Piracy is not theft. Theft removes the original. Piracy makes a copy.
I guess the best advice for OP is to pay up. Either pay the rightsholders which I also strongly recommend, or buy a VPN or seedbox that allows you to pass the buck.
I profoundly disagree with this one sided opinion.
I'm not defending it, neither do I fully agree with that. Piracy is unlawful, that's for sure.
But I think they made a point, that theft is a bad metaphor for piracy.
I have said it before...
The entertainment industry are nothing more than a gang of street performers who shove themselves into your face.
They want my attention and money, i don't need them to live.
If i have money and if i want - i will pay. I will most likely try to avoid them, if possible.
And i won't support any forms of extortion or oppression.
What if I feel better when stealing?
Then ure on wrong forum. You can ask about DMCA "friendly" or offshore hosting, but theres a limit how far you should go with the statements since this is U.S based site and not a warez forum in general.
Priceless answer.
Ban all non-USA members (providers too), see how that turns out.
The internet is a public street, you (including your hypothetical "open" community) will meet a lot of people, with, perhaps different opinions.
Recording from Legal Sources is allowed in Germany, too.
Gotta love Switzerlands stance on that though (so maybe get a server in Switzerland?!):