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
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
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)
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.
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 ^^)
The following advice does not apply to piracy, it’s just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available 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)
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.
True, though I’ve found this to frequently break after reboot
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
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So is false advertising and fraud but the major streaming services don’t seem to care.
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)
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.
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 ^^)