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How do pirate? (lemmy.world)

I'm moving in a week and changing my ISP, so my plan is just to pirate a few terabytes of music and games on this IP and dip out. I've never pirated anything before though, what's the easiest way for me to do this?

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[-] philo@discuss.online 46 points 8 months ago
  1. Wear an eye patch
  2. Buy a sword
  3. Move to Somalia
[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fuck you. I'm wearing an eye patch, open-carrying a sword, and I'm moving to fucking New York City!

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago
[-] philo@discuss.online 4 points 8 months ago

close enough.

[-] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

You mean steal a sword, right?

[-] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 2 points 8 months ago

With a yo ho ho!

[-] mudle@lemmy.ml 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

#1. (RTFM) Read the Megathread, it has all the trusted sites you'll likely need unless you're getting into to very niche things.

#2. Use a VPN. Mullvad is great but they recently removed port-forwarding so if you care about port-forwarding I recommend going with something like ProtonVPN (paid).

#3. Bind your VPN to your torrent client. (I recommend using QBittorrent)

#4. Also, for music, I recommend you look into soulseek.

Edit: Read @GrievingWidow420@feddit.it's reply to this comment. They give helpful information that I completely spaced to add into my original comment.

[-] GrievingWidow420@feddit.it 10 points 8 months ago

#2. Use a VPN. Mullvad is great but they recently removed port-forwarding so if you care about port-forwarding I recommend going with something like ProtonVPN (paid).

#3. Bind your VPN to your torrent client. (I recommend using QBittorrent)

Maybe before suggesting these two, which are more go-to than they should be, you should have suggested checking their national, cultural and legislative view on piracy and, if at least two result positive, should have suggested to search for websites that are totally shady but look good and work better, that host downloadables either via torrent or direct downloads. Many nations have their own.

Feel free to consider the above as #2 and then go from there, my bud PRUSSIA_x86

[-] mudle@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

I did end up realizing they might not live in a country that cares about piracy, and should have mentioned they might not even need a VPN. Thanks for the correction.

[-] hendrik@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't know where you live, just wanted to say if you're dabbling in this new hobby, make sure they're not keeping logs after your contract ends. Your IP of today might still be traceable back to you, if they keep the logs for a fixed time after the contract ended. Or use protection.

[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I live in the US, what do you think are the chances I'll face repercussions for a a terabyte or two of music and such? I just set up proton VPN and I'm using utorrent.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

The mega thread on the sidebar has some great resources

[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago
[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 7 points 8 months ago

Download a torrent client and use Yandex to search for torrents. Most of the times it will be Russian, so use your browsers translator (for Firefox, the Firefox Translations add-on, it also translates locally).

[-] fluidrock78@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Hahahahahaha. Yeah guys let's "help this person".

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago
[-] fluidrock78@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
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