Comic Strips

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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
Limit of two posts per person per day.
Bots aren't allowed.
Banned users will have their posts removed.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The following advice does not apply to piracy, it's just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.

Install qbittorrent.
Use a VPN (windscribe has a free tier) whenever qbittorrent is running, even in the background, even when you aren't downloading. Make sure qbittorrent doesn't run on startup, it's in settings. This makes sure nobody can see that your IP is torrenting perfectly legal content, for privacy.
Find a torrent. If you go to the pirate bay (top result on duckduckgo), be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
Search for your legally torrentable movie/show and press the magnet (or copy the magnet link) next to the torrent with the most seeders (SE)
paste the link into qbittorrent, optionally select "download first and last pieces first" and "download sequentially", if you want to watch while downloading.
Always check the file extension of any files before opening - mp4 etc is safe, don't run any .exe files. There is malware out there, especially in torrented games.
Be nice and keep seeding torrents after downloading
Enjoy your legally acquired content!

There's a piracy comm on lemmy at lemmy.dbzer0.com.

(If any mods don't want advice for legal torrenting here, apologies and feel free to delete my comment)

[–] coolfission@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Windscribe doesn’t work with p2p in their free tier anymore: https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/does-windscribe-allow-peer-to-peer-p2p-traffic/

I used to use Windscribe free tier before I paid to get proper unlimited VPN (Proton VPN).

Now for similar free VPN for torrent, I recommend PrivadoVPN. That still worked for me when I tried 3 months ago.

[–] Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Make sure qbittorrent doesn’t run on startup, it’s in settings

In Advanced settings there's the ability to bind to a network. Bind to the vpn and qbittorrent won't work at all without the VPN engaged.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

True, though I've found this to frequently break after reboot

[–] Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago

I've never had an issue with it. I don't use qbit's "restart on boot" setting, but rather use my OS' 'start apps on reboot' feature with a minute delay that ensures the network is connected, with VPN on, and stabilized. /shrug

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 child)

be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.

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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

So is false advertising and fraud but the major streaming services don't seem to care.

[–] Paulemeister@feddit.org 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

I don't torrent, it's just not as nice as a streaming site like the frontend of solarmovies etc.. (I like fmovies and s.to) Also at least in Germany uploading (aka seeding) is punished way more and opens you up to being discovered, where as only streaming, finding you is harder (they need access to the streaming site servers) plus its not punished as hard (and I think in practice not investigated)

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Up to you but how is it not as nice though? It's usually faster so you don't have to deal with buffering, plus you can keep the content forever and watch it without internet access and after the site gets taken down.

[–] Paulemeister@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Tbh I haven tried in like 5 years, but I think not much has changed. I don't need to rewatch a series again. And the websites I use are just like conventional streaming services, remembering were you left of, what you already watched, what's the next episode, Infos on the content I watch. It's just a nice user experience all within my browser. (Also I don't want to torrent without seeding ^^)