Hi, I’d like to set the sails due to being frustrated with streaming services, but I have some questions beforehand. I hope, you can help me with that, since lurking and reading the Megathread/Wiki didn’t really answer my questions. Thanks for your help.

  1. Is just using a fitting VPN (I’ve read about Mullvad and ProtonVPN in this community) safe enough to not get caught? I’m located in germany, so sharing even as much as a few kB of pirated content can cost me thousands of euros. I want to be really sure, that I won’t get letters from some lawyer soon. All, that I’ve read so far is basically: Setup VPN and your Torrent software, including kill switch and maybe get into private trackers. Thats it. Is this really enough? Can I do more to be safe? What exactly is the risk with public trackers (as they are often mentioned as the “low hanging fruit” for copyright lawyers)?

  2. I’ve read the post The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking, which mentions many tools to setup. I’m sure these help me find and view content. But are there good resources explaining the functionalities of this software? I’m familiar with Docker and I know about Jellyfin, but it is really unclear to me, what exactly all the other tools do.

Big thanks from a long time lurker!

  • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Bind gluetun with torrent client for a real kill switch. If you trust your VPN provider then you should be safe. Mullvad is probably the most reputable provider, but since they removed PF I moved to airVPN. I dont live in germany tho 😜

    There are other alternatives to torrents, but private trackers should be more safe than public ones. You need invite or pass the interview for most private trackers, but I guess you know that already

    • lazarus@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Ah, thanks. I will definitely look further into that. Doing things in Docker containers is something I already do for many other self hosted services

    • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Whats the benefit of doing this VS using qbittorent binded to the ProtonVPN app so it stops if the vpn disconnects?

      • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Maybe nothing if that app is acting like a real kill switch. Otherwise, bad kill switch might leak your IP when disconnecting frim VPN or simmilar. Binding qbit and gluetun makes it impossible to leak, but there might be more good alternatives. I was just following what most people recommend tbh