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What are the best ways to start a home media server legally?
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Truth be told, doing it legally will only make it harder and harder to get media. Mullvad VPN (https://mullvad.net ) is only 5€ (~5.4$) monthly and you can quite literally mail them the physical dollars to pay for the VPN if you don't have card.
Is Mullvad still a valid option with no port forwarding? I guess if you're only on public trackers and don't care about seeding it's probably fine.
You "can" run torrent without port forward, you get a lot less friction running with one, even on public.
privateinternetaccess has a handfull of nodes that allow port forward, they also have one in switzerland that allows socks proxy.
To add, running without portforward lowers the amount of discoverable peers quite a bit, which usually results in a much lower download speed.
yeah that's the why part of the friction