I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    If you do use a VPN for torrenting, ensure it supports port forwarding. You won’t be able to seed if the provider doesn’t allow port forwarding. Sharing is caring :)

    AirVPN is currently one of the best VPNs that support port forwarding, but there’s some others that do, too. NordVPN doesn’t support it. There’s an old list here: https://old.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/s9f36q/list_of_vpns_that_allow_portforwarding_2022/

    • ISOmorph@feddit.deEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      Torrenting/seeding works great with Mullvad, which doesn’t have port forwarding

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        How though? People that want the torrent can’t connect to you if you’re not forwarding a port.

        • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          You can connect to them though. Peers that have their ports open can allow seeders to connect to them

          • dan@upvote.auEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Do seeds actively connect to peers even when the download is complete? I haven’t used BitTorrent in a very long time, but it didn’t used to do that.

        • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          You can connect to people who have their ports open but not people who don’t, when your ports aren’t open