Regular users in Sweden are in danger because a corporation needs to fill their pockets. Studios are suing your ISPs to get to you.

Use I2P. It will hide your IP address (among the many things it can do), afford you more privacy and allow you to torrent freely, even without a VPN/seedbox. The catch? You’ll have to add the I2P trackers to your torrent.

I believe I2P is the way forward for piracy and I look forward to it getting bigger than it already is.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    VPNs log your IP. And Mullvad doesn’t allow port-forwarding, which means you can’t seed.

    Being a node for traffic doesn’t mean it can be linked to your identity, because everything is encrypted and metadata is scrambled. TOR node operators take much greater risks because depending on how they have set it up, it can lead to their identity being compromised. It’s a small chance but it can happen.

    I can’t convince you. I only hope that people start seeing the need for it and begin reading the documentation to see its strengths

    • tate
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      115 days ago

      I use Mulvad, and seeding seems to work for me. Am I missing something?

      • Saik0
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        and seeding seems to work for me.

        You can only seed to people who have ports open. At least one side of the connection needs to be reachable.

        It’s people like me who keep ports available that are able to seed to you.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 days ago

        That shouldn’t be possible in theory unless I don’t know it well enough. Care to provide a screenshot?

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      VPNs log your IP.

      But they don’t log the data going through. The IP alone will not be enough for a conviction at all. They also need to prove that you acquired/shared copyrighted content. Any proper VPN isn’t going to log that.

      But if you think like that I suppose you aren’t very interested in running TOR relays or exits either.

      No, I’m not at all interested in that either. I don’t want to risk any nefarious traffic that I have no control over running through my network.

      I get the appeal of I2P for torrenting and I can absolutely see the value it can bring. But as long as I will have to be a node for other random peoples traffic, I’ll pass.