Love the ISP Complaint page - just a couple of minor points (rentry.co)

submitted 1 year ago by plexnose@u.fail to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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First post! Looking forward to getting involved as I move away from deddit....

Great to see the ISP Complaint page just have a couple of suggestions / corrections

An ISP would have little incentive to arrest their subscribers

Nobody thinks an ISP has the power to arrest anyone.....

Suggest addition of 'debrid' solution to the 'how can I avoid complaints' part

You have seedboxes and DDLs in there, but Debrid solutions offer agreat way of using both. The main debrid sites let you

Add torrents safely and turn them to DDLs (like a Seedbox)
Bypass filelocker limits on speed and number of DLs
Can be used with services like Stremio to give you higher quality streaming links that are precached - which means no torrenting, no buffering and of coure, no risk of getting caught.

Maybe add something about 'fines' - lots of people mistaken think their ISP can fine them. This is just not true. Only a court, or in some places the police, can issue penalty fines. There is no country in the world that allows ISPs to fine its customers.

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[-] nerdman83@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Keep in mind, if you are using a VPN, connecting to Netflix will fail, your banking institutions, including PayPal, will flag your account and potentially shut it due to suspicious login behavior.

I think that text is misleading since if you use OpenVPN you can get ovpn files from your provider and set up a split-tunnel configuration. All traffic except torrents will go out your normal connection.

Then set qBittorrent to ONLY use the OpenVPN virtual ethernet port as its connection and it's a kill switch, if VPN isn't connected qBittorrent won't connect.

You just need to put this in your ovpn file from your VPN provider:

proto udp
dev tun
keepalive 10 120
nobind

persist-key
persist-tun

dhcp-option DNS 208.67.222.222
dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220
block-outside-dns

route 0.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway
route 64.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway
route 128.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway
route 192.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway

[-] mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am ob mobile only (so i cannot check) - do we have a „blog“ (rentry) already or could we pin such articles to the sidebar?

[-] plexnose@u.fail 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah its in the sidebar on desktop : https://rentry.co/piracy-isp-complaints

Really useful and hopefully the group won't be flooded with 'I get FINED by my ISP!111!!!' posts

[-] Deletecat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobody thinks an ISP has the power to arrest anyone.....

I think that point could be reworded along the lines of 'ISPs won't report you to the police for pirating content'. I've talked to people who were worried about being arrested because they received a DMCA letter from their ISP

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