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To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don't look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it's just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett's manual search.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's also Germany where torrenting without VPN is not possible. There's one single law firm that has contracts with most big IP holders. They look up IP's on public trackers and sent an "Unterlassungserklärung" to the name and adress of the person paying the ISP. ISP's having to give out names to IP's without a court order is the problem here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ouch, sorry to hear that. Anyone know if that's the same with other EU member states?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not nearly. The Czech Republic is largely a free haven. We don't have good public trackers, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Use private trackers then