Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk? - eviltoast

I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    81·
    6 months ago

    If you do use a VPN for torrenting, ensure it supports port forwarding. You won’t be able to seed if the provider doesn’t allow port forwarding. Sharing is caring :)

    AirVPN is currently one of the best VPNs that support port forwarding, but there’s some others that do, too. NordVPN doesn’t support it. There’s an old list here: https://old.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/s9f36q/list_of_vpns_that_allow_portforwarding_2022/

    • ISOmorph@feddit.deEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      Torrenting/seeding works great with Mullvad, which doesn’t have port forwarding

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        How though? People that want the torrent can’t connect to you if you’re not forwarding a port.

        • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          You can connect to them though. Peers that have their ports open can allow seeders to connect to them

          • dan@upvote.auEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Do seeds actively connect to peers even when the download is complete? I haven’t used BitTorrent in a very long time, but it didn’t used to do that.

            • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              I am not sure, possibly not. Of course this isn’t the ideal scenario, this is why port forwarding is still recommended, but you probably still get away without using it, if you download mostly freeleach and popular torrents. That way you can 1:1 the ratio during the download.

        • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          You can connect to people who have their ports open but not people who don’t, when your ports aren’t open