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What is the safest way to pirate without spending money. (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Honestly, im scared to get into piracy because im afraid of getting in trouble or failing, basically im worried for no reason. I also have some random questions about piracy.

  1. should downloaded things be put on a internal or external hard drive. Because my external hard drive can be weird at times and i know some files required them to be installed internally.

  2. is there a way to help out the piracy community without breaking any rules or breaking the bank?

  3. are direct downloads safer or torrent, or something else?

that is all i have at the moment but feel free to add on to this if you wish too.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
  1. Shouldn't matter unless you've looking to be really paranoid about it. The aim should be not to raise the suspicion of the authorities, not to prevent them from catching you if you do manage to give them reason to suspect something.
  2. This might be controversial, but I'd say just participating by getting stuff is good in itself.
  3. HTTP(s) over Tor (use Tor Browser) is free and safe.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People may complain if you tell them you're downloading big files over Tor, though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've heard you shouldn't torrent over Tor because it creates and destroys circuits rapidly which bogs down the Tor network, but I've never heard that HTTP over Tor for large files (which would create only one long-lived circuit at a time (per file)) would cause any issues for the Tor network. I thought that kind of scenario was exactly what the Tor network was designed for. Do you have any good sources saying one shouldn't download large files over Tor?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe you are correct, I was thinking about torrents when I wrote my comment.

My only source is this website -I've heard arguments for torrenting here as well, so I don't think there is a hard set rule (although it does sound like everyone agrees download speeds are terrible).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's true that download speeds tend to be slow over Tor. That doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother others. And OP was asking specifically about "safe" options. For the concessions one makes using Tor, I don't think there's a "safer" option out there.

I suppose if France and the EU start criminalizing encryption, Tor could start being "unsafe". (Not to be U.S.-centric, but the U.S. could totally follow suit.)