Comment on Spanish Court Orders ProtonVPN and NordVPN to Block Pirate Football Streams

Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Beep@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is IVPN too.

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t use Mullvad when it’s openly hostile to peer-to-peer torrenting. Even outside of the obvious – piracy is one of the besf and most unique use cases for a VPN – I use torrents wherever the option is available on for legal downloads because that’s normally faster, spares a load on the server, and strengthens the download’s resiliency. That Mullvad wants to restrict that is their (reasonable) call, but it’s not one that’s going to get my money.

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  • Toes@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been using Mullvad for awhile now and torrenting works fine.

    I did notice a behaviour that LibTorrent 1.2.x works better than 2.x and some endpoints don’t play nice.

    If you’re willing to give it another spin try Netherlands.

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They don’t excplicitly ban torrenting, but they banned port forwarding in 2023 which limits who you can connect to.

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      • Toes@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah I see what you mean.

        It relies on the other side to have an open NAT or support UDP hole punching.

        In my experience this works fairly well with μTP enabled.

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• LordDaveTheKind@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does Mullvad allow sports streaming? When I used it to watch the Olympics on the Italian broadcaster (RAI), the stream was blocked.

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  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From which end?

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    • LordDaveTheKind@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From United Kingdom to Italy

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