I just want to torrent a little HQ music with metadata man.

I used to pay for streaming music but due to current affairs and financial instability… I wont pay for that shit anymore.

I was thinking doing the whole shenanigans with an old laptop, a fresh VPN account, scanning with clamav, moving everything to my cloud drive etc.

But is it even worth the extra steps if I won’t get in any trouble for raw dogging the torrents from my main workstation and my everyday VPN account?

I did some research and found many people recommend some level of opsec. Does it matter?

I’m not US based but I am close with many people that is, both professionally and personally.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    I have qbittorrent and PIA VPN. I need to switch VPN providers but that’s a separate topic. Qbt is on a kill switch so if the VPN goes down, no torrents flow. I’ve never received a letter when running VPN but have a few times in the past when not.

    I have a Plex library over 40TB in size, and the vast majority has been torrents. I love in the US for geographical context. If you also are in the States, a simple VPN will be enough.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      You shouldn’t rely on the kill switch, because it can allow leaks before the kill switch enables.

      Luckily, qBitTorrent supports interface binding. By default, qBT will attempt to use any network interface that has an active connection. In the advanced settings, you can tell qBT to bind directly to the PIA network interface. This means it will only be able to connect when the PIA tunnel is connected. No chance of leaks, because qBT will only ever use your VPN tunnel.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Admittedly it’s worked fine for me, and this is my only use for it, but they were bought out by a company with history if malware based ad injection. PIA still maintains no logging and since they can’t really feed ads to my torrents, it probably doesn’t matter. I’ve known this for years and still haven’t switched, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for a VPN I use for web browsing or other online activities.

        • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 days ago

          ah. that’s a shame. I’m with them till 2028 as I bought a decent length package, but I’ll probably switch away after that or sooner if they enshittify. I only use it for p2p and torrent search so I’m not super worried about it for now but that’s good to know.