I am into torrenting movies- alas no money to get a VPN, What else can I do? I don’t really need a VPN because I live in a third world country and I don’t get no lettters if I sail the seas, I was searching for any other ways to hide my IP address from the swarm, without loosing much speed?
I came across this Tribler client, I don’t know if its good, Should I try Socks5 proxy or something like that?
Or tell me if the only good method is using a VPN, in that case I should wait out a couple years until I make money and remote torrent by making like 15 accounts in TorBox.
I will apologize, if I said something stupid in advance because I severly lack any knowledge in what I am talking about.
It doesn’t matter.
The only reason to have VPNs for this is preventing internet shut-offs, fines, and nasty letters. Those only exist in the first world for the most part and only parts of it (in Germany they will directly fine you thousands per violation most severe case, in most places like the US they just shut off your internet after enough violations but you get warnings).
If your country doesn’t have a regime for fining you directly for this, doesn’t have internet shut-off laws, and doesn’t have any other major consequences then it doesn’t matter. You can look it up.
Even some first world countries don’t care. Through a quirk of law in Australia for example it’s basically impossible for copyright holders to go after people doing p2p stuff for anything but the retail price ($20) of works so it’s not worth their time and people there can do it freely.
No one else in the swarm cares who you are nor can they do anything. Use a modern client like Qbittorrent and keep it updated to stay secure.
At most maybe your ISP may throttle your bittorrent traffic because it’s not hidden using a VPN. But if you don’t have money you’re not getting a VPN that would improve your speed situation anyways. Just be patient.
I haven’t noticed ISP throttling speed yet, so I guess a VPN is not necessary at all.
- But I can’t promise that this won’t use up a few kbps of your internet connection
protonVPN has a free tier
They don’t allow torrenting on it. It’s for web browsing only. It won’t work well at all.
it doesn’t have p2p and its slow.
vpns are always slow: 4,6 vs 420 Mb/s right now. If the free tier is even slower, then it is a real punishment
There’s also https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists
Which has a bit of controversy… Some people say it works other say it’s useless. I use this filter over a year now and didn’t get any dmca from my ISP. (I don’t download any recent media though)
Keep in mind, this could/will potentially block healthy peers in the swarm ^^ it’s not a full bulletproof solution…
It does work in qbittorrent you just need to change the extension to .p2p I think?
Proton VPN is free to use. It has limited options but should be enough for torrenting movies.
