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I never did it. How can I do it? And where I need to go for it?

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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For newbies qbitrorrent's search is more than adequate enough to replace steps 5-7. But this is a great guide!

[–] freeman@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, the search is great for starting out! But i think you need to add the python-search plugins first, right? Not that its hard to do but it is something that needs to be done first

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[–] pulido@lemmings.world 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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/

[–] DustLucas@lemm.ee -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never use a Free VPN, unless it's a reputable limited free VPN like Windscribe

[–] dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would normally agree but I have used riseup when money was tight and they still seem fine.

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What do you have in terms of hardware?

What’s your experience?

I am happy to guide you through the steps needed.

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

VPN, virtual machine and a good site to find torrents with seeds

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Unless you're Canadian, then you can just raw dawg pirate whatever with no repercussion. IP cannot be associated to an identity here. At worst you get cease and desists notices emailed to you by your ISP but you can ignore them, ISPs are obligated to forward these. Especially notices from companies outside of Canada.

It all depends on where you live, in Poland they don't care unless you're pirating polish productions. Then the fist of God crushes you. Allegedly

[–] Primer81@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On windows, I used Mullvad VPN and Qbittorrent. The settings suggested by Rodneyck are also what I used for qbittorrent.

And a tip: if you notice qbittorrent is not downloading your torrents but has lots of seeders and your VPN is connected... try restarting qbittorrent (right click the tray icon and quit) and it should start downloading.

[–] zero@feddit.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

You will want to find a proper torrent site, this is not going to be easy considering you’re new to this. Using public sites you get a world of other problems such as malware.

Getting a seed box is an option, then you can install a media server like Jellyfin. But a lot of reputable seed boxes don’t allow public trackers.

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