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EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No more port forwarding with Mullvad. You’ll have to use another.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Port forwarding is a security hole.

    Torrenting works without it just fine.

    Not that I would ever pirate anything. That’s would be immoral! After all…Billionaires schemed, lied and stepped on SO MANY people to get to be where they are!

    How are billionaires supposed to afford their giant palace-sized mansions or their diamond-dusted platinum-plated Ferraris with ivory interiors if we pirate things?

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah port forwarding is required on at least one end to make connections with peers. You can download files without it provided the seeders have PF setup but you won’t be able to seed anything, which breaks the fundamentals of P2P. This will also get you banned from private trackers if you’re not seeding. With a VPN the forwarded port is through them not on your router so security isn’t really an issue here.

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      • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m able to seed without it

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LOLLIMEWIRE

  Man, I forgot how old that was. RIP to the guy as well, such a genuine bloke, IRL moreso than the Sportacus character.

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