_cryptagion [he/him]

It’s not impossible to pirate without a VPN, just use Usenet. Until a couple months ago when I had some free time and was super super bored, I hadn’t even bothered to tell SABnzbd to use a VPN. Over two ISPs and however many hundreds of episodes and movies watched, I never got any letters. Likewise, you usually are pretty safe on private torrent trackers, because copyright trolls don’t like putting in the effort of maintaining access.

To be fair, if you set up a Servar stack, you should already know enough not to use utorrent.

Oof, that is bad.

Commenting to additionally note that Dockers can be found for both torrent and usenet clients that already have their traffic routed through glueton without further work. I use the Binhex versions of SABnzbd and qBittorrent. You just gotta put in your VPN info.

Looks good, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a compelling reason to use this over Heroic, if you already have that installed.

That’s an odd thing to see these days. I didn’t know ISPs still did that. I bet they offer a more expensive tier for businesses is why.

Literally anything you want. You don’t need a static IP, any dynamic IP with a software updater will work. For example, I have some public sites proxied through Cloudflare, and I use the DDNS updater for Docker that keeps my DNS correct.

If you had read the OP, they don’t want the scrapers using up all their traffic.

If you’re looking to stop them from wasting your traffic, do not use a tarpit. The whole point of it is that it makes the scraper get stuck on your server forever. That means you pay for the traffic the scraper uses, and it will continually rack up those charges until the people running it wise up and ban your server. The question you gotta ask yourself is, who has more money, you or the massive AI corp?

Tarpits are the dumbest bit of anti-AI tech to come out yet.

Yes, that’s exactly what it is. Some TVs can’t handle DV. There’s nothing you can do about it either, other than avoid anything with it.

No, that issue can happen on Jellyfin as well, because it’s happened to me. But that was before I used the Trash guides to set up Sonarr/Radarr so that Dolby Vision files were never fetched.

Yeah, and they locked all their android tablets to only be able to use apps from that store too. So if you had a Kindle tablet, you don’t have access to most android apps.

You’re forgetting that they’re a rich corporation, and you’re not. They’ll get away with the defense, but even if it set a precedent, copyright groups can still sue you until you’re broke to make an example of you, even if you didn’t legally do anything “wrong”.

As long as you can sue someone for any reason without repercussions, then it’s always going to be the people with more money who come out on top. Always. Wining a lawsuit doesn’t mean you’re not still financially destroyed and driven into poverty for the rest of your life.

It’s not complicated. The Usenet provider gives you access to Usenet, and the indexer lets you search it for whatever you want. You then download it with a Usenet client. You can do it manually, much the same way as you download a torrent from any site. if you’ve downloaded a torrent before, you would be able to manage Usenet with no issues at all.

Or, if you’re willing to spend a few hours setting up the Servarr apps on an old computer like I did, you can automate the whole thing. I recommend this option, because you do it once and then you have a seamless way to fetch files from torrent and Usenet both without ever doing anything more than typing in the name of the show/movie. The Servarr apps search for, download, and import media into my library so that I can stream them to all my devices using Jellyfin (or Plex, if you like corpo apps). They even fetch proper subtitles for everything, and I also have it set up so after I’ve watched an episode, it’s deleted to make room for something else. It’s as easy as Netflix, at a fraction of the cost.

It’s childish nonsense, on par with republicans calling Biden Brandon. The only people who ever did call him that were liberal boomers.

Hmm, pay $20 a month apiece for 20 different shitty streaming services that use ads, or $6/month for Usenet access and $1/month for indexer access, and get every movie and TV show for nothing extra…

Choices, choices.

If you disable networking, nothing can “ping home”. It didn’t ping anything, it opened the default program on your computer for using the web and passed a website request to it. That’s standard behavior.

I’m just here to see the tankies flip out in the comments.

Yes, that’s the one. It works by just using Javascript to check that the browser is OK.

I’m a simple guy. If a website I visit uses any kind of captcha other than Cloudflare’s Turnstile, then I close that website and don’t use it ever again. I’m not interested in wasting five minutes picking which squares have busses in them because ReCaptcha has decided I have to do the captcha 200 times.