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reasonable price VPN/ good services and if the VPN has a free version will it leak my info??

I don't use µTorrent, I use qBittorrent, although I don't know what's wrong with µTorrent, a lot of people talk badly about it so if someone could fill me in that would be great.

I downloaded a link for adobe photoshop 2024 and then scanned the file and this came up. I’m completely new to torrenting and pirating. Is this bad?

I thought my VPN was on but it wasn't, I was just pirating a kanye album, should I be good? And if I'm gonna get charged how much would that be.

this is on qbittorrent

exactly what title says, downloading a 107 gb game file for the past 10 hours thanks to my slow internet lol, 75 gb got done, I paused it for a second (accidentally) and then resumed it, and now upload and download speeds have somewhat switched places, with upload like 5-6 times faster than download

don't really know my way around torrent settings much, aside from disabling utp and setting the rate limits to unlimited haven't done much else, they haven't solved the issue either.

just noticed that when I restart my computer, the download speed goes to normal for a few seconds before going down and the upload speed goes up.

any advice would be appreciated :)

Lately, I've been torrenting a ton of newly released media and noticed that some of the content I've watched has really bad audio issues. Sometimes the audio track is almost inaudible, while other times it peaks way too much. Is this a common issue nowadays? I only torrent from the best seeds these days...

What would be the difference between seeding vs stalled uploading in qbittorrent?

I’ve pretty much always been able to find a torrent I’ve been after, but this one has me beaten. I pay full tv subscription, have bought around 800 movies on Apple, so don’t mind paying, but this isn’t available to purchase anywhere.

I’m in the uk, so can’t get it on demand….

I’d be extremely grateful if anyone knew where I could find….

Arnie

It’s the 3 part documentary all about the golfer Arnold palmer.

I downloaded something off the internet, something that caused my internet (Spectrum) to be notified, and shut down the internet. This was about a month ago. The internet went back on, things were fine again.

Yesterday, my provider was notified again by the file, and shut the internet off again. This was out of my power. I didn’t interact with it or use it. But I deleted it immediately after I was notified. It’s very nerve wrecking.

What’s caused my provider to be pinged about this? I haven’t used the file at all. And what can I do to stop it? I’ve since uninstalled utorrent and “unseeded” the download.

So I download movies mostly from bitsearch.to. I try to find the best uploader/quality possible. I do not hoard, so when I've watched the movie I delete it and go find another one. I watch movies mostly on my tablet ( 11" 2560x1600). Also, I prefer downloading movie per movie, so streaming or automation is not an option.

Sometimes the best option is a YTS upload.
Now I read a lot about how YTS uploads are bad and should be avoided. But in my use case scenario, if there are no other options are they ok? Or should I continue searching?

I just torrented software. Good thing my CleanMyMac was on and it detected a harmful malware right away which I then deleted.

Is it safe to install the software I just downloaded?

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I just want to say that I am eternally grateful to the people who do use port forwarding. If it wasn't for you guys doing what I cannot, torrenting would be almost useless. I am seeding without port forwarding for about 16 hours a day and manage to seed about a terabyte per month while prioritizing unhealthy torrents thanks to the people who are kind enough to use this feature.

However, port forwarding with VPNs is currently in an awful state and is pretty much guaranteed to only get worse. If you would like to purchase a VPN with port forwarding here are your current options: either commit to a long term subscription with a shady company, pay nearly double the going rate for VPNs, or get a VPN that looks like it's from the 90s and constantly jump through nonsensical hoops on their website to actually get port forwarding to work.

Mullvad and IVPN dropped port forwarding. It's only a matter of time until Proton does. I think PIA doesn't let you use port forwarding on US servers anymore. Look, there's no doubt in my mind that there will always be at least 1 or 2 VPNs on the market that have port forwarding, but once the popular ones drop the feature, the amount of actual data being seeded is going to fall off a cliff.

Either VPNs need some sort of way to stop people from abusing the feature, or we need to make some serious changes to the protocol. Otherwise I'm not sure how this can last much longer.

I was searching for a place to ask my question about this. My question is people that use a VPN have you ever gotten a notice while using your VPN to download torrents? I have several friends that have been downloading Torrents for 20 years without any protection, other than a peer guard, Never Pay for the service for updates either. They asked me if I think they should use a VPN I said well you haven’t got caught yet. I said to them would using a VPN alert your Internet provider that you’re doing something you shouldn’t be doing. Is this statement? True I’m just wondering? So basically, my questions are people that use a VPN to download music TV shows and movies did they ever get a notice letter? Second question if you start using a VPN doesn’t that look suspicious to your cable company, is there a way if they wanted to circumvent the VPN to see exactly what you’re doing.

I normally download the remux or full disc version of any movie, show I want to see but when It comes to seeding I generally don't seed as much to other people as I would like to, Is this because of the file size which is usually > 60 GB and can be understandable if majority of people don't want to download a file with that size, If so should I start to download encodes too?

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I have set my home server's qBittorrent client to stop seeding at 5.0 ratio or 43200 minutes (720 hours, 30 days) so Sonarr/Radarr would then delete the files. Is that not enough? There's so many dead torrents out there

My ISP allows me to whether choose CGNAT, Real-world routable address or Pre leased static real-world routable address for the IPv4 Address. Do these options actually matter when I always torrent files using a VPN? Thank you so much.

I was using a cracking torrent searching app called torrenthunter on the Playstore. Simplistic and no ads - literally found anything from anywhere it seems but now when I press search it just force closes. Anyone got any other good android suggestions?

First 2-3 things I got, they downloaded fully and worked. Next thing, it didn't work.

Suddenly my deluge-web won't let me in. There is a blank screen with a popup asking for password without prompting for user.

That's okay: I have only two users 'localclient' and 'hyman'. For passwords I have tried the default deluge and the passwords given in /srv/deluge/.config/deluge/auth

I am running deluge as a system service so I assume that the passwords in ~/.config/deluge/auth are not the good ones, but even so I tried them too.

Nope.

deluge-gtk works fine. The connection manager shows I'm using hyman and the password in hyman's entry in the auth file. So it looks like a problem with deluge-web.

:> deluge --version
   deluge 2.1.1
   libtorrent: 2.0.9.0
   Python: 3.11.8
   OS: Linux Arch Linux rolling n/a

I've been using deluge for only a couple of days so I'm not aware of the tricks and gotchas that seasoned users are on to.

I will gladly blow deluge-web away and start again, but since I don't know what's happening it's possible that a fresh install would not solve the problem.

I mean what things Linux has, but Windows doesn't have?

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Torrenting in Windows is great, and quicker to browse, and easier to manage the other non-torrenting tasks, and for gaming. But I wonder from you to get an insight in the massive world of Linux.

Hey guys! I am wanting to download a bunch of old cartoons from the 90’s. Anyone know of sites that have majority of those cartoons?

I only have a basic understanding of torrenting, so forgive me if this seems like a dumb question.

Right now I'm downloading a 300GB torrent with limited peers and seeders, so the progress has been slow at just 40% after several months.

There's another peer who has over 70% of the same torrent, but they haven't contributed anything back by seeding/uploading. It's like a 0KB to 50+GB ratio... They're downloading at 2MB/s from me while giving absolutely nothing back. It's really annoying lol. Is there a reason for this behavior, or any way to prevent it from happening?

Is it safer to use the search functionality within the app rather than sites in your browsers?

Is there any best practices to follow?

I torrented for multiple for years but I never in my life heard the word or even a discussion of NAS in my country. Can you inform me so I may have a reason to buy for it?

I just want to know if it covers the IP address just like a VPN does when downloading torrents using uTorrent Web

I'm a poor college student and want to learn a hobby and edit with premiere. I downloaded a torrent from haxnode and virustotal gives these results:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/79eec3e5bb9282f7ebab09a8566558e8a52934df174f129677a4771d5383a3db

I'm not sure what to make of this tbh. If anyone could help me understand more that would be greatly appreciated.

I made a cloned copy of my main ssd to a dummy drive with a stripped down version of windows that I plan to use to test software on. I installed the premiere software on that and no weird behavior popped up in task manager but not sure if that means that it's still safe enough to use

Lately I'm running my downloads at night, and then use my VPN to connect somewhere like EU where I get better speeds when they are in the middle of the night.

However, almost every time in the past month—domestic or foreign, I'm away from my computer for an hour or overnight and I get bumped offline and where I have to restart.

I've never had this happen before so often. I'm using Xfinity, PIA and Transmission. Anyone have a similar issue?

I've run all night for years but now the internet connection drops sometime I'm away. I've checked to see if it goes to sleep but it's active.

Also anyone know what the yellowish vs green speeds are on PIA?

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Hi there

I’m surprised by how little “French torrents” are available on TPB.

Are there other seeding sites more catered towards international content?

To be honest I’m not sure this is the correct sub to post on - please do let me know if there’s somewhere more appropriate!