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submitted 2 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago

Torrenting in Germany is DANGEROUS. Piracy is in general harshly prosecuted here but "one click downloads" are in a gray zone. That means while you can download everything you want, Uploading is very illegal and henceforth seeding.

This is also the reason why i didn't seed my Linux back. Nobody in the world knows if i am allowed to seed proprietary software but if i am unlucky, that means pain.

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Just use a VPN and that's it. Easy and nothing happens

[-] Spectrism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago

Unless you forget to bind your torrent client to the VPN interface. Found that out the hard way and had to pay 600 € for like 10 seconds of accidental seeding, and that was after negotiating with the law firm, else it would have been around 1k €. So yeah, the commenter above was not kidding with torrenting in Germany being dangerous, even the slightest error in your setup can be pretty expensive. Now I only use i2p torrents to be on the really safe side, and also because I want to see the network grow.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's kind of embarrassing but in my experience the number one rule of VPN kill switch schemes is that they will fail to trigger. Sometimes twice, after you fix the discrepancy that caused it to not trigger the first time. Fucking docker being too smart for it's own good... Me being too dumb for my own...