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How is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] RelativeArea1@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

most are still stuck to ipv4 and being NATted to oblivion, instead of adopting newer ipv6

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

The first thing I do with my isp provided modem is set it to bridge mode.

[–] devnev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does STUN no longer work to allow port-forwarding when needed by P2P applications?

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

[–] SmokeFree@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Contact your ISP, and request for CGNAT removal. Unless you live in Germany.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

CGNAT is the new reality, we must embrace IPv6.

[–] AllPintsNorth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why not in Germany?

[–] SmokeFree@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I mean, torrenting in Germany is a big no without a VPN.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

I don't see that where I live - some ISPs offer port forwarding, some don't. Some just give you IPv6 with ports unlocked manually in router config

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Port forwarding is premium? On what exactly? I must be out of the loop...

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we ran out of IPv4 addresses quite some time ago. the likelihood of being on a carrier grade NAT is pretty high.

and if you're lucky enough to have access a direct IPv4 address (also a premium feature and priced as such) your ISP can still be blocking certain ports.

and on top of all that what @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com said

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] s3rvant@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I use Proton VPN which has port forwarding

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

Rent a seed box. That's the best solution for everyone.

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