Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I don't really understand why everyone's telling you about torrents when you don't need them to watch movies. Like, it's nice if you want Blu Ray quality or have bad internet or something, but you don't need to download stuff unless you really want to. I just use uBlock Origin with Firefox and one of a few streaming sites. You can find a list here: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/movies-and-tv/ (Scroll down to streaming and try one out.) It works on mobile, too.

Sometimes you'll have to check multiple sites to find older, more obscure things, but for the most part they only really differ in their UI. Some anime sites even have options to skip the intro/outro and autoplay the next episode.

No one, in this entire thread, has thought of telling OP to sort by seeders. Are you all stupid? That's the most important thing

Check out Tribler. It uses a similar technology to Tor, but for torrents.

Depends where you live and how enforced anti piracy laws are. I have downloaded stuff for 15 or so years through 3 or 4 different ISPs from static IP and have never had any issues.

Only thing that you could somehow call a protection is I do not use ISP owned DNS server.

VPN to a nice safe country like Switzerland.

Look into selfhosting the Servarr stack along side QBitTorrent, pick a media player such as Plex or Jellyfin. Easy free streaming.

There are two schools of thought, and one of them is insanely wrong.

The current preferred method (by youngins) for pirating is by using a VPN provider to "hide" your torrent traffic, which is generally valid, but it's not a silver bullet and it's a wrong way to think.

The other is to use a seedbox, which is a remote server hosted in a country that doesn't recognize piracy as a crime to begin with...

The choice is clear. Especially when you consider to get a good private VPN you'll have to pay $5-10/mo. You may as well pay $5-10/mo to commit a crime where no one thinks its a crime, then you never have to worry about it. Using a VPN you can still get caught, it's just exceptionally rare because conditions have to line up perfectly. But what if your VPN is down, and you accidentally begin a download? You willing to get a $100,000 fine for that?

Just use a damn seedbox.

Simple: https://fmhy.pages.dev/videopiracyguide#streaming-sites

More complex: Mullvad VPN, QBitTorrent, 1337x.to

Nice try, cop.

If you're using windows, make sure you set it to show file extensions. Watch out for files with a double extension such as "mkv.exe". That's guaranteed to be malware. Don't open any link, bat or com files either.

Start by checking the Megathread and other resources in the sidebar.

VPN (always) and QBittorent. After starting your VPN, go into the Preferences > advanced settings> Optional IP to bind to > pull down the menu and find your current VPN's IP address and select it. Protected, even if your VPN goes down. You can add torrent search engines to QBittorent under the Search feature.

Use a VPN. Here's a free one: https://riseup.net/en/vpn

Go to a torrent site, such as https://1337x.to/

Search the movie you want, find a torrent that suits you.

Download and watch.

Here's a free streaming site: https://hydrahd.sh/

get a decent VPN

What do you have in terms of hardware?

What’s your experience?

I am happy to guide you through the steps needed.

Step 1: download the free ProtonVPN app; https://protonvpn.com/download

Step 2: download the free qbittorrent app; https://www.qbittorrent.org/

Step 3: download vlc media player; https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Step 4: install and connect ProtonVPN to a free server.

Step 5: Pick a public torrent website from the wiki and look for a movie you want to watch.

Step 6: copy the magnet link the website lists and add it to bittorrent. Wait for it to connect and download.

Step 7: enable showing extensions if you use windows; https://www.howtogeek.com/205086/beginner-how-to-make-windows-show-file-extensions/

Step 8: make sure that all your downloaded files only ever play in vlc, and that they arent .exe files.

Step 9: leave qbittorrent running (and seeding!) On your computer after your movies are downloaded.