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.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    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.