safe to pirate movies from germany with vpn?
Hey, I wanna start building a media library because I’m annoyed with all the streaming services. Only problem is, that I’m from germany with strict laws. Anyone here got experience with torrenting movies and stuff in germany?
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Option one: Join private tracker communities, no need for a vpn here. You will find the majority of stuff here anyway, compared to public torrents.
Option two: Get and set up a vpn (preferable with port forwarding) in your bittorrent client. Bind your vpn connection to your network interface in qbittorrents advanced settings option page.
Option three: Use usenet, since there is no upload involved on your side you also need no vpn.
Piracy in Germany is kinda rare, don't expect to find many pirates in your private sphere. However if you find some, chances are they will try to stop your from torrenting and advise file hosters like ddownload or rapidgator. It's very common for German pirates, torrenting has a bad reputation due to law firms hunting down pirates.
Just be careful after updating qBittorrent, sometimes the update resets the network binding and you have to go in and fix it.
Probably missed a checkbox to keep settings or something, but it's better to confirm after upgrading, then miss a change and have your torrent run in the open.
Option one is kinda busted because your ISP can see what you’re doing. Also there have been cases of people getting sued anyway in semi-private trackers like IPT and TL.
ISPs don't spy on users, would violate GDPR.
Long story short: You'd get more money from your ISP than you'd pay to copyright trolls.