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Side note: I have had a bad situation where the enemy fleet caught me, and I stopped doing torrents and started using DDL with a VPN. I have a hunch because some attorneys are laying out traps in torrents, DDL might be safer rn. I have read on a few sites that this might be the case, and I have been sailing a lot smoother since then as well.
So take that for what you will, and also if anybody can confirm if DDL with VPN is as safe as it's been for me, please do, because I'm curious.
Sorry to hear that. How exactly are these traps made? Is there some code executed on your side, which reveals your true IP? Or how are they doing it?
They appear as torrent peers I think and log when they get a connection to share parts of the file to their system. I assume then they look up the IP and they try to find out if they got an IP from a known VPN provider or a private one. And then they send out the papers.
Note: In the paper it only says that they have evidence that my PC shared parts of that file 3 times in quick succession and that's it, the rest is my deduction / educated guess.
I should also note that that was in Germany, and unfortunately I can't tell you which enemy fleet burnt down my sails but let's say it was one of the big ones.
Though that shouldn't help them if you are using a VPN, right? Then they cannot see my private IP, only the VPNs IP.
I assume so. A lot of this is guesswork because obviously they won't straight up tell us.
We also have that in France.
Some peers on torrents are indeed tracking uploaders. Here you receive a letter saying which file you shared and when.
Blockbusters are the most likely to be tracked.
For me I avoided that system with alldebrid's sort of seedbox. And direct download with alldebrid.
Here as far as I know, a datacenter IP is free to download anything and everything on torrents... Which it then uploads to DDL sites for me. And since they can't don't track DDL it's safe.