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How is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

That's for downloading, but it you want to upload/seed, then you would need port forwarding.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

and for downloading too when no one else has forwarded a port in the swarm

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You can still seed to users that do have port forwarding.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

correct.... you aint power seeding but enough to to give back to the community of Linux iso enoyers

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

yes, seeding works too, with no port forwarding. With mullvad, it just works and with proton I have to enable "moderate NAT" sometimes, but seeding works without port forwarding, it always has

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Only because you're seeding to people that have port forwarding active. You can't seed to people that are running the same setup as yourself.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Port forwarding is a huge vulnerability. With proton it's not as much of a vulnerability, but it still opens a lot of shit that should stay closed

whatever the case is, I'm able to seed without port forwarding

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You're opening a port in your VPN connection so no there's no "huge vulnerability" (even without a VPN you're only opening a port to your torrent client) and as mentioned, you're only seeding to people who have port forwarding set up. If more people run without it like yourself, the whole system breaks down.