A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.

I finally got it, and decided I’d seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I’ll just keep this one going.

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    Now if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(

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          They base off Mullvad which removed the ability to forward ports, not the 1st choice for P2P, but anything else

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            I didn’t understand. Aren’t all ports go through the encrypted traffic once I start a vpn?

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              They do, but if you can’t forward a port nothing can get to you from outside, which you want with P2P, per default anything from outside is blocked.

              If two people with no port forwarding meet, they aren’t able to connect, one side has to have an open port, so you’re missing many peers and seeders and you can counter this by being the one with the open port so anyone is able to connect to you.

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          I’m trying but the save button just loops endlessly…

          What difference does it make? Aren’t you able to see the comment?

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            It’s not so huge a concern right now, but it lets people that write userscripts write, say, a userscript to automatically translate a post into your preferred language from the post’s language.

            Such a thing would be easier if the userscript could trust that a post is set to the language it’s written in.

            This load circle thing is it implicitly failing due to you not having selected Deutsch as one of your languages in your profile (most likely).

            There are other things it could be as well.

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              Interesting! I tried it a bit more:

              • I had “Undetermined”, “Deutsch” and “English” selected in my profile.
              • I was able to set the comment to “Undetermined”, but then still not able to set it to “Deutsch” (back to “English”, worked though)
              • Changing the word “homie” didn’t make a difference
              • Other comments set to “Undetermined” were able to switch to “Deutsch”
              • Other comments set to “English” (that were actually written in english) were able to switch to “Deutsch”

              Seems like it’s a problem with this comment in particular, but I can’t figure out why!

              Edit: I found another comment set to “Deutsch”, written in german, that can’t be changed no matter what.

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                I only really write in one language so I don’t have this problem, I just default to English.

                But it’s interesting that some posts are hard to change.

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                If you are going throught feddit.de there might be limitations on the languages you can select for comments. I think only German and undetermined are possible there.

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            At least on the web browser version of lemmy, there is a dropdown box below where you write a reply, that says “Select language” by default.

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      Just rent a seedbox.
      Torrenting actively from public trackers for 14€ per month and can host the best streaming service right at home.

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      sounds like pure intimidation to me.

      1/ one could have “never received this letter”

      2/ one could decide not to pay, and then what? will they go to court? based on what evidence?

      3/ if it ever goes to court, “i don’t know, i wasnt even home that day” should always work no?

      i don’t understand while in some countries (actually only one that i know of, Germany) people seem to be terrified by this lawyer’s spam…

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        Oh no it isn’t. Walldorf Frommer is well known to send “Unterlassungerklärungen” which you have to answer. It will go to court if you do not work against this. You normally need your own lawyer to defuse what they send you.

        Also, if you are in court, there is the concept of “Störerhaftung” which is a wet dream for everyone suing you for copyright infringement. They will have your IP and the time, thus your address. Now you either have to name someone who did do it, or if you can’t you will automatically be liable.

        This isn’t any intimidation, it is one company using the laws in place here to fuck you majorly over. There are a lot of stories about this and if you seed on any public tracker you WILL get a letter.

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          How effective are VPNs at preventing this? I’ve heard it recommended the most as a counter measure.

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            VPN’s solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP’s of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.

            If it’s an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don’t achieve anything and if it’s not a german IP they can’t do anything anyway.

            They mostly go for the easy targets since that’s their easy business.

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              This is the way. qBittorrent even has an interface option. You can set that to your VPN and it’s basically a killswitch. I’ve still got mullvads killswitch option enabled on top of it tho. It just cuts your internet connection, if you ever drop the connection to their servers.

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                Oh right. Binding to the VPN network interface is really important.

                It gives peace of mind. One time I noticed the VPN was off and qBit still ran and I didn’t bind to the interface. Luckily it was fine.

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            VPN’s solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP’s of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.

            If it’s an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don’t achieve anything and if it’s not a german IP they can’t do anything anyway.

            They mostly go for the easy targets since that’s their easy business.

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          It does it all. Debrid is the cloud, and a whole bunch of others things. You just copy and paste a magnet link into the page. And it gets the file for you. And if someone else has used that torrent, it’s already on the debrid server so there’s no wait. 95% of the time it’s already there. Then you’re just downloading a file like you would any other file from a webpage, off the debrid server. Usually at the full speed of your isp. No p2p. I can stream 100 gb movies off their servers. Or download them quickly.

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            Holy shit I’ve been paying for that just because I can’t be arsed waiting for audiobooks to download from Rapidshare

            Thanks for the info, I’ll look into this too then, saves fucking about with QBT

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              Update for anyone interested - I put four obscure torrent files into Real Debrib that had been sitting in QBT for months, not downloadable.

              Three out of the four downloaded within a couple of hours

              I’m fuckin impressed

              When I say obscure, I mean a minor British sitcom from the 90s, a french comedy from 1987, and a video of a live Muse gig from ten years ago. All downloaded

              Now, the only one left is the episode of Pointless Celebrities with Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton

              I’ll be impressed if it can find that

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      If you want a year subscription to Speedify, let me know. I got a year in a Humble Bundle that I never used because I have a lifetime subscription to Windscribe. Speaking of which, Windscribe allows 10GB of free transfers each month. Not much but it will get you a few movies or audio books.