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It seems so strange to me that we are locked in battle with providers mining our lives for whatever, and we have to work our asses off trying to stay anonymous, to the point of being denied service (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I'm like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don't want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don't want to "sign up."

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I'm not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that's enough.

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How do you get “good” private trackers man. Either they’re all empty or just seem impossible to get into

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Depends on which tracker. In general though invites and you get invites by association with relevant groups. Sometimes open registration occurs (though rarely) an other times the trakcer may do interviews.

    It mostly comes down to time and patience.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I got a pretty letter from speck_t_rum once.

    Been a paranoid ever since.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't see how thats relevant.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    It said stop torrenting or face a biiiig fine. I’ll try and follow the guides to avoid this but I’m still a bit paranoid. Maybe I was loooking for reassurance that vpn and private trackers are good enough.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I believe the only thing they could really do is drop you from their service (or I guess throttle you to high heaven)... I don't think a private company has the authority to impose fines, and I don't think these companies are actually following-up on these letters with real lawsuits as it would cost them way too much money.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    By not torrenting. Use Usenet instead. Way safer and easier. Once I went Usenet I literally haven’t touched a single torrent in over a decade.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Here we gooooo

    Into the rabbit hole that is, idk what Usenet is

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Newsgroups.
    Basically (Its all afaik) bulletin boards and meant for groups juat chatting like we do here on reddit/lemmy.
    But they also host binaries that (when put together) equal a movie file. Kinda like a multi-rar file.
    Thwy usually have deals around black friday.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'll be the first to preach Usenet for movies and shows, but I'm wondering if you've found it useful for gaming/ music.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I haven't tried it for gaming or music. Like always, piracy is a service problem. Spotify and Steam have solved the service problem so I pay for those. Haven't felt like pirating in a game in 14 years due to it, and spotify literally has every song I could ever want to listen to on the planet.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Unless I've misunderstood how it works, don't you need to pay for Usenet?

    Something about paying money for pirated content rubs me the wrong way.

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