Been using airvpn for at least a year now (2? Maybe 3, idk…) Wait I checked it’s been about 2 years. OK, anyway yeah they’re my go to recommendation for anyone moderately technical.

You’re right, my bad. They are stealing that amount from each creator, in fact.

Ya know, if you assume each one of those is a person who would otherwise pay $100 a month for all the streaming services, then they are costing the streaming services about $259,200,000,000,000 each year. /s

I use airvpn with an always on server setup, port forwarding, and constant seeding. If you’re okay with manually using a wireguard or openvpn client instead of an airvpn specific client it works great.

Edit Plus, they have a progressive pricing thing that lets you buy a few days for like 2€ just to test stuff.

Eh, I sometimes spin up a temporary docker container for some nonsense on a separate computer. I usually just go for it after checking no one is on and backing up necessary data.

Seeding is worse legally.

Yes, although if you take it from your own streaming or something there may be watermarks to identify you. If you just repost from clearweb torrents you’ll be fine.

Yes.

Or I2p

I typically just copy the title into google with quotes around it. Can also add filetype:pdf.

Edit: Didn’t see title, leaving up anyway.

I’ve got like half a gig down and 20 ish mbps up. I also limit it to less because family and stuff.

Nice. I just got above 2 for my ratio. I don’t have symmetric internet, but I have my torrents set up to never stop, and I don’t delete.

I don’t like that all of the questions are mandatory. For some of them, I just haven’t done enough with whatever it is to have an opinion and would not be able to provide good data.

I don’t pay for piracy, but if I did I’d be glad I could help.

Idk if you tried this, but I run all my stuff on docker and put specific things through gluetun (arrs and qbit).

It’s not how you build a ratio, but helps so much more than seeding the latest Marvel thing. Thank you.

I have a jellyfin+arr+qbit setup. i just tell it to prefer av1. It usually doesn’t get any, but once av1 becomes more common I will probably switch, but I will have to re-download everything as av1 so I can continue seeding.

Great idea, can’t believe I didn’t think of that.

Assuming I read that right, and assuming that’s right: Person bought Disney+. Clicked accept in the EULA when they did. Was served food that gave them allergic reaction. Binding arbitration agreement basically means their case against Disney was tried by Disney employees instead of in court. If they pirated content instead of paying, they never would have accepted the EULA, and they would have gotten to sue Disney in a real court.

I agree. Ads are just completely scummy. If I am interested in buying something, I will research and decide for myself what I want to buy by looking at marketing material, specs, etc. The only thing ads are good for is making you subconsciously more likely to think of mc Donalds over bk when deciding where to stop for food, and that kind of subtle manipulation should be illegal. Sorry for ranting about something you seem to agree with me on, but a little circle jerking is nice every now and then.