If your IPS and the local authorities will not do anything if you download, upload and publish anything, what is the bare minimum of security measures you can do? Context: I live in Southamericas, here we have worse thing to deal with.
I’d say say at least use a VPN. Most of the suggested security practices are easy enough there’s really no reason not to…
Why would you use a VPN? What’s the advantage, aside from not letting my ISP know what I’m doing?
I just don’t care about any of that at all. I have around 100TB of seeding accumulated over the years, no VPN, zero security measures, nothing ever happened at all.
Meanwhile I went to school one day as a teen and had left the torrent up by accident seeding and 4 days later my isp called my parents saying that there was a huge fine coming my way if I didn’t cut it out. The isp was super small so the company they were the end user and they were nice enough to give us a heads up. The notice said something like 25,000 on it.
Me too, I have running a tor snowflake and i2pd instance on the same server I am seeding.
I’ve personally been doing this for many years, seeding all sorts of nasty stuff and no one that I know has ever gotten so much as an email.
Feel free to use no privacy measures, but at least setup an alert so you know if your country’s police decides to start persecuting pirates.
I recommend u setup a Google alert with a query like “YOUR-COUNTRY-HERE arrestan pirateria”. So if a news article that matches that query ever gets posted online, you’ll instantly get an email
Don’t worry, it’s probably going to be killed soon like all good Google products
I wouldn’t worry about that. Google has had this feature for a VERY VERY long time.
In Chile I recall Microsoft sending a notification to my former worplace because someone used torrent to download a game from inside the company network. That person didn’t notice that all traffic was being routed to company’s VPN hosted in MS Azure.
ISPs don’t give a shit. The goverment has laws against piracy that are never applied (you know: Southamerica, the lawlessness). But gringo companies do care.
My advice is to avoid Google, MS and the big tech to follow your pirates activities. They may suspend services to you, or notifiy some local authority.
Use a different browser or machine for your big tech interactions, and you’ll be fine.
Edit: typos.
I’m in the UK and while they make big talk of punishing cyber criminals I’ve never received as much as a cease and desist from an ISP despite running what is essentially a 24/7 seedbox from my home server for watching stuff via Plex
