Why is VPN port forwarding relevant here?
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ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Torrenting is the way to go. Especially with VPN port forwarding now.
Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 1 year ago
ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP’s in US Canada nd UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting.
Archr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have never heard of this happening. And I’ve gotten multiple cease and desist letters from my ISP. ISPs don’t really have the case for a suit anyways, but there are third party companies that companies like Disney will pay to watch torrents for them and ask your ISP to send you that letter.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A decade or so ago, there were some widely-publicized cases of folks who got absolutely ruined with six- or seven-figure judgements against them for copyright infringement.
Maybe it was a tactic the copyright cartel used in the mid-2000s and then stopped or something, but it was enough to shift folks’ behavior such that using VPNs became the norm.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are correct, it’s super uncommon to get sued for pirating unless you’re a major player. If you get busted by your ISP too many times, though, they may give you the boot. My ISP has a 9 strikes in one rolling year policy (at least last I knew).
hark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Canada limits the amount that a company can sue for downloading pirated media to the point where it’s not worth it for the company to actually take it to court. The company can ask the ISP to send an email to try to scare the user, but that’s about it.
MetricIsRight@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Been getting those emails for 10+ years, I just laugh and keep seeding.
ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
this is great news
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You didnt answer the question
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, we get the VPN part. What about the port-forwarding part?
ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I might have used the wrong word. I think the term is binding a VPN to a torrenting application so that all data going in andd oit of pass thru the vpns servers
Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 1 year ago
Shit they do that? Man that sucks. People go to jail? Or have to pay fines?
SeriousBug@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Fines. And say you seeded a movie to 1000 people and a DVD of the movie costs $20, they sue you for $20000, treating it like you broke into a warehouse and stole 1000 DVDs of the movie.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like some VPNs are pulling back from port forwarding. Was a bummer that Mullvad did, probably due to legal pressure
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not legal pressure, government pressure. They kept getting asked to disclose which accounts had which ports associated with then and share all the info on them they kept (which for some payment methods they do briefly). So they decided to remove the feature rather than potentially violate their founding principle of privacy and anonymity. Kudos to them. Of course f*ck the CSAM assholes who made the government get involved in this and cost us this feature.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is very depressing. The arms race between bad actors and repressive governments keeps whittling away at our right to privacy
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
why do you need port forwarding if you have VPN?
Its been a long, long time since i’ve used torrents in any form, so I have no idea.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You need it for seeding
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I do want to note that you can still seed if your port isn’t forwarded. For every seed connection, only one person out of the pair needs a forwarded port.