First post! Looking forward to getting involved as I move away from deddit…
Great to see the ISP Complaint page just have a couple of suggestions / corrections
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An ISP would have little incentive to arrest their subscribers
Nobody thinks an ISP has the power to arrest anyone…
- Suggest addition of ‘debrid’ solution to the ‘how can I avoid complaints’ part
You have seedboxes and DDLs in there, but Debrid solutions offer agreat way of using both. The main debrid sites let you
- Add torrents safely and turn them to DDLs (like a Seedbox)
- Bypass filelocker limits on speed and number of DLs
- Can be used with services like Stremio to give you higher quality streaming links that are precached - which means no torrenting, no buffering and of coure, no risk of getting caught.
- Maybe add something about ‘fines’ - lots of people mistaken think their ISP can fine them. This is just not true. Only a court, or in some places the police, can issue penalty fines. There is no country in the world that allows ISPs to fine its customers.
Keep in mind, if you are using a VPN, connecting to Netflix will fail, your banking institutions, including PayPal, will flag your account and potentially shut it due to suspicious login behavior.
I think that text is misleading since if you use OpenVPN you can get ovpn files from your provider and set up a split-tunnel configuration. All traffic except torrents will go out your normal connection.
Then set qBittorrent to ONLY use the OpenVPN virtual ethernet port as its connection and it’s a kill switch, if VPN isn’t connected qBittorrent won’t connect.
You just need to put this in your ovpn file from your VPN provider:
proto udp dev tun keepalive 10 120 nobind persist-key persist-tun dhcp-option DNS 208.67.222.222 dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220 block-outside-dns route 0.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway route 64.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway route 128.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway route 192.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gatewayI am ob mobile only (so i cannot check) - do we have a „blog“ (rentry) already or could we pin such articles to the sidebar?
Yeah its in the sidebar on desktop : https://rentry.co/piracy-isp-complaints
Really useful and hopefully the group won’t be flooded with ‘I get FINED by my ISP!111!!!’ posts
Nobody thinks an ISP has the power to arrest anyone…
I think that point could be reworded along the lines of ‘ISPs won’t report you to the police for pirating content’. I’ve talked to people who were worried about being arrested because they received a DMCA letter from their ISP