Well, After hundreds of GB of torrents downloaded, I slipped up. I’ve been changing around linux distros recently and i believe i configured my VPN wrong or forgot to turn it back on after doing something. Well, I finally got hit with a copyright warning. Just your typical “we had to send this” type of warning but none-the-less, I slipped up.
Sharing this because the day before it happened, I read a post about not only having your killswitch on but also binding your client to you vpn interface for situations like this. Needless to say I didn’t take that precaution. For those who are on linux, I found a great post about how to set this up on reddit and wanted to remind people to “double wrap” because why not be safe lol.
The steps were more or less as follows (for QBitTorrent at least):
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Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced Settings
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Under “Network Interface”, select your vpn interface. To test, check what shows with your vpn on, and then turn it off and re-navigate to this part to see what dissapeared. Thats likely your vpn interface if the name wasn’t clear. (Do not be seeding/downloading torrents while doing this in case).
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To test, download a non-copyright torrent like the Ubuntu ISO torrent. In the middle of download, disconnect or close your vpn connection. This should stop the download.
Not sure if reddit links are cool here but here is the guide source if anyones interested. Binding VPN to Torrent Client
Stay hidden!
I keep forgetting that some people need vpns to torrent.
Yeah it sounds so bizarre to me… What do you mean your ISP is constantly snooping all your encrypted traffic or trying to de-anonimize you by making undercover peers? That doesn’t sound very net neutral…
The ISP usually doesn’t give a shit. It’s various industry groups (think RIAA) seeding and trying to deanonymize people, then they complain to the ISP who’ll usually (IME) brush it off with stern look but I guess in really egregious cases they’ll cut service.