Do you need a VPN?

Re:Do you need a VPN? by sametmax on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:43PM (#15586494)

Most people I know want a VPN to pirate stuff without consequences. So I'd say, Tor would not cut it.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by CiPHPerCoder on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:44PM (#15586507)

Tor is emphatically not meant for piracy, especially BitTorrent.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by jerheinze on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:50PM (#15586575)

As I mentioned in another comment about using VPN for torrents:

> That isn't great privacy wise as it's still privacy by policy. The best way to torrent is to use i2p which - unlike Tor - encourages that activity. (Short tuto: the default Java i2p bundle already comes with I2PSnark, a torrent client. To download a torrent, search through known i2p trackers such as the Postman Tracker: http://tracker2.postman.i2p )

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by sametmax on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:52PM (#15586611)

Unless stremio and other pop corn time like can work transparently with i2p, it won't help.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by jerheinze on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:59PM (#15586691)

> Unless stremio and other pop corn time like can work transparently with i2p, it won't help.

What? i2p is a self-contained network and not really meant for clearnet browsing.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by sametmax on Monday October 30, 2017 @01:06PM (#15586770)

You need to look up what stremio (https://www.strem.io/) is and understand the value proposal for the casual non tech saavy end user. This is the face of torrenting now. Not magnet links. People don't know what a URL is anymore, don't expect them to understand a classic torrent client or i2P.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by sillysaurus3 on Monday October 30, 2017 @03:21PM (#15588063)

Since we're talking about it: what's the value proposition in creating an illegal service for non tech savvy end users?

I'm trying to figure out why they made this. They can't really run ads without ending up like the founder of TPB.

Regardless, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect people to know what a magnet link is. When all you need to do is download transmission and click on a magnet link, people are fine with that.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by jerheinze on Monday October 30, 2017 @01:09PM (#15586802)

You mentioned stremio and I respectably pointed out that it's not going to work over i2p for reasons mentioned above. I don't even see why you're mentioning it when we're talking about privacy.

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by sametmax on Monday October 30, 2017 @01:55PM (#15587289)

My whole point is that people use VPN for torrenting so Tor would not help and i2P neither. What are you talking about ? Did you read the first post ?

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by jerheinze on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:44PM (#15587764)

> My whole point is that people use VPN for torrenting so Tor would not help and i2P neither.

My point was that I2P can help them since it's (a) torrent friendly, (b) has a bundled Torrent client (I2PSnark), (c) there are many eepsite torrent trackers such as: http://tracker2.postman.i2p

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by sametmax on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:46AM (#15592777)

But they use stremio which doesn't work with i2p.

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