Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn't care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you're paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA's in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.

[–] ntn888@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

That's exactly what I did. Better yet I routed it though a wireguard tunnel! I documented the process here.

[–] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never had a problem with it in Spain. What is different where you live? CGNAT?

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 62 points 2 days ago (12 children)

IPv6. My stupid ISP actually shipped their router with all inbound ipv6 blocked with no way to unblock it, so I set up opnsense. Works like a charm!

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

At least your stupid ISP has IPv6. Mine doesn't (yet).

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm very uneducated about this stuff. How does IPV6 fix that issue?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't fix it, per se, rather removes the need for layers of hacks such as nat and cg-nat. Every device gets a globally routable IP - no need to forward anything, just open the port you want.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This doesn't solve for VPNs no longer offering it though, unless the VPN services started offering pure v6 via tunnel at some point while I wasn't looking. I know I've never seen a v6 pier in the last few years since I started sailing again.

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[–] R0gueS4t3llite@infosec.pub 45 points 2 days ago (38 children)

As someone who has recently started seeding as much as I can, this is a great question to which I don't have the answer.

I am not renewing my Proton yearly subscription after it ends due to recent developments. They seem to be the only "big name" VPN with the port forwarding feature. I heard of OpenVPN, but have not had a chance to dig into it too much.

My ISP does not provide IPV6 support, so this will be pretty important to sort out soon.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 30 points 1 day ago

OpenVPN is client/server software for setting up a VPN on your own infrastructure. It's not a third-party service like ProtonVPN.

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 2 points 1 day ago

Torguard looks very BT friendly but I've still got mullvad subscription left and haven't tried them. That and the branding / website just seem illegitimate though I've not found any legit criticisms.

[–] Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Airvpn offers port forwarding

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aren't they located in Italy, the Shithole that keeps trying to outlaw all VPNs and/or force them to provide backdoors and identifiable customers? They can only be stopped so many times before they succeed...

[–] Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah it's a bit of a "for now" thing and worth keeping an eye on Italy. To their credit, they don't offer services in Italy itself anymore after the "privacy shield" bullshit because "it goes against their mission" (for what that's worth lol)

Afaik, there's not many other choices for port forwarding

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe airvpn has port forward.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It does.

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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been happily using Windscribe for a while now, they have port forwarding with a dedicated IP. Averaging out the separate charges, it's about $4 USD/month for a custom plan (1 location + unlimited data) + dedicated IP. Technically their Pro tier includes ephemeral port forwarding, but I don't like how it works.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

If you have a bit extra money, get a seedbox. Cheapest I've seen is €10/mo

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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I've never used port forwarding. Everything works fine

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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago

The best solution IMO are seedboxes

We also have a community dedicated to them: !seedboxes@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Does port forwarding really matter if you have symmetrical fiber?

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

It still works for now, but it would be neat if only the uploading part needed to go through a VPN since that's the bit you can get in trouble for.

Would need a way of obfuscating the uploaders and downloaders though.

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