How can I download torrents without getting rekt?

>>56170137

Getting rekt how? Just download them fag.

don't seed. don't download new releases.

i got one email from comcast a decade ago after downloading a new released movie. i haven't done it since and have never gotten another email

>>56170137
Private Internet access vpn, and don't seed at all

>>56170161

This. Buy a subscription to an American based botnet that will handle your data in real time to PRISM, what could even go wrong?

seedbox or vpn, depending on what "getting rekt" is in your retarded brain

>>56170148
there's no circumstance where "don't seed" is a good answer. seed or don't, but anything you're worried about happening isn't influenced by seeding or not. if your IP address is seen in the swarm, it honestly doesn't matter to the RIAA or whomever that you're not seeding. they see the IP address, file a complaint with your ISP, and you get "rekt".

if your concern is getting "rekt" in the context of getting kicked off a private tracker for having a shitty ratio, I shouldn't have to go through the whole explanation of why not seeding would fuck you.

>>56170161
if you have a VPN then seeding is a non-issue. if you're worried enough that you disable seeding, then your VPN is shit or not configured correctly.

>>56170137
get better taste and get a private tracker

i use animebytes because western entertainment isn't putting out new good things and i have all the old good stuff

>>56170147
Malware up the ass Everytime. Using Norton pro.

>>56170183
You're dumb

>>56170210
>get a private tracker
this misconception that you're secure from DMCA complaints seems to be consistent among people who feel justified condescending to people that don't have access to private trackers. if you think this is a feature that makes you better than others, then you should know that this doesn't even exist.

there's absolutely nothing preventing copyright complainants from getting invitations to private trackers under pseudonyms or whatever, and simply squatting on every torrent they can find (downloading and uploading nothing) to collect IP addresses until their lawyers are drowning in work.

>>56170247
1. it's harder to gain access
2. private trackers may be more niche, making it less likely to be watched
just because it's not perfect doesn't make it as bad as public trackers

>>56170238
what makes you think that not seeding protects you from anything?

a copyright complaint doesn't have to use evidence that would stand up in court. oftentimes the evidence is shaky at best. that doesn't matter if your ISP accepts the evidence at face value and gives you a warning or other punishment.

you need to appreciate that you're operating outside of the court until/unless litigation is filed. if you're taken to court, you could argue that by not seeding you were not in fact distributing copyrighted content, but this is a scenario that affects virtually nobody. the people that face judges these days are the people running trackers; even prolific seeders don't see that kind of heat.

i'm not saying that seeding is good or bad (except in a sort of macro-economic sense that it's good for the whole), but on this one basis it makes no difference. your IP address is seen in the swarm; that's good enough for the copyright complainant and for most ISPs receiving a complaint letter.

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>>56170174
Botnet...... that's hacking, right?

>>56170272
>1. it's harder to gain access
marginally. you don't need to sign a legal document or anything like that. even what.cd is just an interview. anyone can pass it. for the "payoff" of getting access to thousands of IP addresses of really prolific pirates, asking some intern or turker to study and pass this test to get them in the door would be a clear win.

>private trackers may be more niche
security through obscurity is provably unsound. what's worse, private trackers tend to keep track of the stuff you've downloaded (and uploaded) in order to keep track of your ratio for membership purposes. if the site gets taken down by the authorities, are you absolutely confident that the data is secure from prying eyes?

empornium is a "private" tracker and login is handled without SSL. how confident are you that the data there is securely stored in case LEOs bust in and take the server logs? how confident are you that any of these trackers are secure?

the point is that you should use something to mask your origin IP address. that's a seedbox or some sort of traffic proxy service (i.e. a VPN).

>>56170325
I only use one tracker
I am confident the only thing that will happen if it gets seized is that whoever is looking through the files will think i'm a pathetic, lonely loser, and a cuck for having a concurrent streaming account i pay money for

>>56170174
The US has some of the most relaxed privacy laws for The Internet.

PIA stores no user data.

Win win

P.s. What the fuck would prism gain by knowing that I downloaded a fucking movie?

>>56170325
The reason those sites keep running is that their userbase is a mere drop in the bucket. WCD has, what, 150k users? There are single torrents on public trackers with that many people seeding at once. Sure, it's possible for media trusts to infiltrate the private sites, but why go through the effort when you can go for the easy meat?

>>56170342
>We need Senator Moose to move on this legislation, what do we have?
>Well, he used to watch some really shady porn and illegally downloaded over $3000 of software and other media.
>okay, let's get a meeting with him and try to persuade him

Okay, maybe this is dumb and far-fetched but I bet this sort of thing has happened either directly or indirectly because of PRISM. It is giving leverage to very motivated, intelligent, and well-equipped people.

>>56170336
if you've kept up with copyright complaint trolls over the years, you'd know that they don't try to learn anything about you; they just fire buckshot equivalent complaints at ISPs and (sometimes, especially when porn is involved) use scare tactics to coerce a settlement fee from people who've been "caught" torrenting. the threat of your name appearing on a lawsuit involving some embarrassing porn title is often good for some payout.

it's basically extortion, but if they're genuinely the copyright holders then it's essentially legal. judges even prefer to see cases get settled out of court rather than waste their time. Prenda Law was famous for it before they got utterly annihilated for all sorts of fraudulent shit, but there are tons of little fish using similar tactics.

obscurity on the internet doesn't work. the goal of any tracker is to attract (more) high quality users. that's in direct conflict with your desire to be a member of a community that's generally unknown. on some level, some amount of "getting their name out there" is necessary (obviously not through ads, but by word of mouth). there's simply no way you can safely assume that the RIAA or MPAA, for instance, isn't keeping their ear to the ground to spot new private trackers seeding their shit.

>>56170388
- users of private trackers are doing more pirating than public trackers (per capita); these aren't the "whales", but they're hardly minnows.

- private trackers are the sources of the high quality pirated content. early leaks of GoT episodes hit private trackers before public trackers. cut the head off the private trackers and you might affect piracy downstream.

- knocking off private trackers is decidedly more troubling for all pirates. a takedown of what.cd and subsequent C&Ds for all the users of that tracker would cause more concern for torrent users than 10 public trackers being taken down. it would basically be using terrorism to scare pirates out of the practice.

>>56170392
/X/

>>56170230
Common sense

I force encryption. Disable some methods of connecting to peers. Spoof hostname. Ip blacklist. Download via magnet only. Never had a problem.

>>56170480
Can't afford that.

Download completely legal ones.

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>>56170524
I too like to spoof

>>56170524
- encryption prevents MITM. doesn't protect against a member of the swarm collecting lists of IP addresses. to be honest, this is only useful if you believe someone is going to try to fool your client into downloading something else (which on bittorrent is hard, because there's a lot of checking hashes for blocks to make sure you got the right thing; this is like worrying that a state sponsored attack is coming your way - it might be, but it probably isn't unless you're an iranian nuclear scientist).
- disabling connections doesn't really solve your problem. they still know your IP address. might help if you get taken to court because they can't prove that you're seeding (because you weren't seeding anything to them) but anything not involving the court can use horse shit evidence collected illegally; laws regarding the acquisition of evidence typically only apply to LEOs and people working for LEOs.
- spoofing hostname doesn't do anything in this context. not even sure why you would bother.
- ip blacklist is the same problem as disabling connections. a blacklist is actually the method for implementing the above. i don't know if you're being redundant intentionally or what
- magnet downloading is just another way to skin the cat; doesn't solve your problems either.

the most likely reason you've had no problems is that nobody was watching those torrents to make complaints. you can smear jelly all over yourself and then rob someone with a banana as your sidearm and get away with it, and later think that the jelly and banana were helpful somehow, but the likely answer is just that a cop wasn't around.

most of the methods pirates (or at least pirates on /g/) claim to swear by are just "security theatre". do it if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but actually do the stuff that protects you as well.

>>56170137
I have comcast and they get on my ass whenever I download music. How do I avoid that?

>>56171672
try reading the thread?

>>56170282
ur still dumb

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>>56170282
Don't bother putting effort into a thread that's clearly made by a /b/tard

>>56170210
>i use animebytes because western entertainment isn't putting out new good things and i have all the old good stuff
That's a funny way of saying you're into loli.

Go to a coffee shop torrent leave when done that's what i do

>>56170549
>Norton Pro

We are on a technology board here. We don't take kindly to joke software.

>>56170137

rise up against the united police states of america

>>56170137
Move out of obese America