I don’t live in the US, so my ISP doesn’t really seem to care what I torrent, but the megathread vehemently recommends to always use one. Since VPNs aren’t cheap and I’m on a strict budget (wouldn’t pirate otherwise), is it really that dangerous to torrent without one?

  • JasSmith@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yes but it’s not quite as easy. For example, QxR generally releases everything on 1337. On Usenet you’re going to get a mix of re-ups, remixes from various groups, new groups you haven’t heard of, and they might be on various indexers. Generally speaking, I have no issues finding a good quality x265 rip, but I might have to try a couple if I haven’t heard of the release team. For this reason I’ve configured preferences in Radarr and Sonarr which will preference QxR, for example. I also include public torrent trackers.