Technically you don’t need a vpn if you live in certain countries where the government doesn’t give a shit that you torrent.
Brazil and most Latin American countries are also safe pirate havens, unless you set up a for-profit piracy site, then you’re painting a huge target on your head.
You can also just direct download games without a VPN.
100% safe?
No, but uh, ISPs have so heavily switched over to monitoring torrents, they kind of forgot the other option exists.
(I’ll update this with a -whoops I got fucked- if that happens, but I’ve been doing this for half a year now, no problems.)
Another option is I2P for either direct dls or torrents, no subscription fee, but it is quite slow.
$14.99 Netflix subscription
$11.99 Gamepass subscription
$11.99 Spotify Premium subscription
Want more than one networks programming? Hulu/Max/Paramount/Peacock all cost around the same
ISP still sells your damn data to advertisers
OR
$5 Mullvad subscription.
You tell me what makes more sense.
Unfortunately I cannot recommend Mullvad for Torrenting. They blocked port forwarding, making seeding and thus contributing back to the network that much slower
I just went for ProtonVPN since (next to iVPN I think) it’s the only other one to at least be partially OSS and still viable for daily-use
Thats fair, and I agree with you for torrenting, its the one thing I wish they’d change. For privacy though, I feel like Mullvad is leading the pack. (Not having to provide an email, crypto and/or cash payments, DAITA)
Yes shame about Mullvad. AirVPN still allows port forwarding though.
Now days I just stick to private trackers while using a cheap European VPS setup with wireguard. Only saves me a couple of bucks a month compared to VPN service but it adds up.
It’s hella cheaper tho
Yeah and something that is useful for all kinds of situations like circumventing geo-blocking as well. So it’s always a good idea to have a VPN.
I may or may not have torrented so many games, software, movies and albums without any VPN. It went well for years until we got one of those letters.
Woops, looks like I left my Wi-Fi network open. Must have been my neighbor ;)
You also need an ISP, which isn’t free either.
If you have a non-sucking ISP, you don’t need a VPN. But a VPN is incredibly cheap, so just lump it in mentally with the cost of the internet service.
What VPN do you recommend?
That depends on a number of things, like do you want to seed (if so, Mullvad is out), how much do you plan on downloading (if a lot, a VPS may be out), if your ISP blocks any of them, etc.
I generally recommend Mullvad or DIY w/ a VPS (I DIY a wireguard VPN on a VPS), but just try some out and see what works best for you.
No money, no friends? Maybe that a signal it’s time to take a break from the screen
Going outside when you’re nowhere near a city:
(in USA at least)
That’s all of Alberta CA I think
You’ve never gone tromping through the woods?
Kind of (300+ miles on the trail), though I’ve never found anything close to a friend or a money.
I imagine you haven’t found fees or foes, though.
instructions misunderstood. Bear is playing doom Eternal with me. Please help.
I recommend the original, as it can run on anything.
Including crabs
The doom modding community is wonderful. Found a ton of mods here if anyone is interested:
You’ll come back with dozens of friends (ticks)
My first friend is the sulfur sock.
That’s where me and the dudes go to have fun with each other.
If you’re from the South in England, and haven’t made any friends by uni (if you even get accepted) just give up, you’re never gonna make any, not over there at least.
I moved to the southeast like a year ago and yeah, people here are firmly aloof. I once said hi to a neighbour too loudly and I think he moved away.
Exactly.
I tried, but could not get into gaming at all. Boy am I glad about that.
That’s kind of wild to me. There’s so many unique types of games, and not a single one interested you?
That’s like not being interested in an entire media category.I can understand not relating to the gamer culture, but even my grandma games on her tablet.
I played all the way through Jedi Outcast and most of KOTOR…I’m not a Star Wars nerd but I really like the sound design and world architecture. I got halfway through Resident Evil 1, and partway through Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. I could not even enter the town on Resident Evil 4. I got my ass kicked in 80s arcade games in the reg. I have a Gamecube and a Wii system in the closet, I think. As I said, I tried. I just cant sit in a space that long doing something that isnt creative. The puzzles are cool but running and shooting and frantic shit just annoys me rather than excites me. I bought the Wii for my wife because she was once a huge Mario Bros fan. She never played it because it turns out she had a very unhealthy obsession with the game, so I completely wasted my money on it although I did enjoy the bowling game for a while. So…just not into it.
Fair enough.
I’m not going to argue about what does or doesn’t appeal to you personally, and I know you probably didn’t list every single game you’ve ever interacted with, but it sounds like action-heavy games aren’t your thing?There’s plenty of puzzle games, and games that revolve around creativity though.
Minecraft got insanely popular partially because it allows you to express so much creativity.If you consider giving games another chance, I would recommend the recently released indie puzzle game ‘blue prince’. It involves a lot of creative thinking to overcome its challenges.
Yes, there have been a few others. Machinareum was artsy, relaxing, and fun. But mainly it’s an issue of time now. I dont even get to watch movies or shows I’m interested in. Self-employed, home studio musician, wife recently blinded, pet care…its a full day every fucking day
Totally understandable.
Sounds like you have plenty of more important things to focus on right now.It probably sounds like I’m really trying to sell you on games now, but did you know there’s games and mods built specifically for blind people?
I’m not saying you or your wife should play them, I just thought it was an interesting coincidence, as I’ve actually developed a couple of audio games before.Anyway, I’ll leave you to go focus on what matters, not my rambling or videogames.
Groovy, thanks!
protonvpn
until proton’s ceo was all “o captain my captain” about trump and the “good things” that trump is doing
As much as i hate people who do this, IMO this is not what the parent comment was doing. This is the wrong moment to use this comic.
Mullvad vpn
Mullvad lost me when they stopped allowing port forward
they aren’t free really,.
the free tier doesn’t support P2P
Direct downloads are fine enough. No need for vpn.
Edit: Depends on your location. US is fine with ddl
Depends on where you are. Don’t try that in Germany, you’ll get a hefty fine.
A fine for pirating? How awful.
Yeah, we just get a notice from the ISP, if that.
A friend who lives both in the Netherlands and Germany forgot to turn off his torrent client on his laptop. A movie finished downloading when he arrived in Germany, he got a fine of €1500. I don’t understand why anyone would use torrents. Since I told him about usenet he’s never had an issue. But it might be that he has a VPN now too, but I’m not sure about it.
Use Tor Or a pretty good free vpn like ProtonVPN. Just not a “free” one. Looking at VeePN with disgust
Please do not use Tor for piracy, you’re taking up valuable bandwidth that people in authoritarian countries need to fight government censorship and surveillance
This, and if you’re downloading a large game, it might take a few months over a Tor.
protonvpn free tier doesn’t support P2P
sh*t
Uhh ignore the example, idk a free vpn that supports P2P.
Nah, basic torrenting can be done without P2P. It just takes more time and fewer torrents work.
You shouldn’t torrent through tor, however, i2p has built in torrents
Can’t you borrow games at the library?
You can also torrent games at the library
In Austria you totally can and it costs € 30 / year. But for the new ones you can simply torrent them because nobody cares here.
Not at mine. We have board games and telescopes though.
If you live in a country that requires a vpn to torrent, you can probably afford video games.
Wrong, you probably can afford a temporary license to play a video game.
Read the megathread ffs, use ProtonVPN
for direct downloads it works, however I tried to torrent on it and it disabled and said “no p2p”. I pay for mullvad now and have no regrets
How did you set it up? Proton offers port forwarding, which mullvad does not
Lifetime VPN sub. Makes it a one-time purchase.
This sounds as unsustainable as free vpns
Because it is. Just recently some VPN provider I already forgot the name of cancelled all lifetime subscriptions. There were multiple posts on Lemmy about it.
How do you mean?
It is not that difficult to understand. Selling a service that costs money each month to run for a one time price is not sustainable.
Oh I see, you meant from the supplier side. I thought you meant it was unsustainable from the consumer side, thanks for clarifying ✌️
Now I’m wondering how costly it is to run Nebula, because they have a 300$ one time payment (equivalent of 5 years of subscription)
Not really. It depends on the pricing.
My issue is that the service have little incentive to keep up a quality standard, unless it’s in the contract…
Ten years and counting for me and VPN Unlimited so far. Unsustainable? Capitalism is un-sustainable. Cheaper than paying monthly or yearly? Absolutely.
Personally, I use the VPN to do my searches, grab magnet links, and get the torrent started, then I disconnect the VPN and switch to Cell data, as that ISP has never sent me a nasty-gram about pirating.
Reasonably sure Nord is still turning a profit on my sub.
This is always such a stupid take. Just force fully encrypted traffic in your torrent client… No VPN necessary.
This is wrong, torrenting is mostly caught by reviewing the peers list of torrents with infringing content, not analyzing the traffic. Only a VPN (or Seedbox) masks your IP, or alternatively private trackers are rare to get monitored.
Okay so I think you are talking about getting caught by a copyright holder, and I am talking about getting caught by your Internet service provider. The alternative (free) solution to the former is just to use private trackers. The alternative (free) solution to the latter is to fully encrypt your traffic.
80$ games btw.
