Proton VPN, Airvpn, and Mullvad are all reputable. Proton and Air have port forwarding if that’s a requirement for you.

Woo. I know a lot of people don’t like Apple, but still a win if It ends up happening.

For me I really like using

Ublock origin

1password

Snowflake

Return Youtube Dislike

And XbrowserSync

Well I feel better about making the switch to Firefox now, and doing a custom user.js

I really like Brave search

Oh that’s neat. Yeah I use Airvpn currently, but would be interested in Proton or Azire if I could automate with a script like you said.

Been thinking about trying Azire, do they provide static ports?

Yeah I knew this would be a skewed sample of opinions, but I was also warry of posting this anywhere else since piracy is a touchy subject on some other instances. Also yeah I’m thinking that since I’ve purchased the media I should have full rights to do with said media whatever I please (other than selling it).

Would you care to elaborate? I don’t really see how it would be wrong?

Yeah it’s crazy how much the world has changed even in my short lifetime, especially with the mass adoption of digital media. It’s going to be so difficult for people to retain their rights to what they purchase.

Yeah you’ve hit the nail on the head. I was merely trying to gain some perspectives outside my own. Ethics is not something for me to define at all. That being said, I’ve decided that I have paid for the media and as such have a right to retain full control over that media as long as I don’t sell it or distribute it widely.

Just to have a discussion and get to see some of the different opinions out there.

Fair lol

Well I just didn’t see any harm in feeling out a lot of different pirates opinions to see some different perspectives I maybe didn’t think of.

Yeah I know it’s not legal in my country and state, but was just trying to get a feel for different opinions on the morality of my question. For me I just like making sure the creator of the media I really enjoy get’s some kind of support, that way I’m voting a little with my dollar. So far I’m really thinking I’ve paid for the media once and once is more than enough.

Yeah it’s just for me personally I like to make sure I support the creators of the media I consume. Just what works for me.

Yeah that’s where I was kinda leaning since it’s just for my household’s use. Especially since I’ve already purchased it once.

May I ask for your reasoning?

Wanted to “aquire legitimately” a movie and from there learned more and more about how big business and big brothers all over like to invade privacy for power and profit.

I’m pretty new to torrenting as well. To answer your questions based on the personal research I’ve done.

1. You absolutely require a VPN. Definitely a paid one. The free ones are not of good quality and a lot of them are more than likely to be detrimental to your privacy. Also P2P is not a requirement for torrenting. All it does is it enables you to make more connections in the swarm and making the torrent download faster. Some good recommendations of VPN’s with port forwarding I’ve seen thrown around are Proton VPN, Airvpn. Options without port forwarding are Mullvad, or IVPN.

2. I’ve been using 1337x for movies and TV shows and it’s been great. I’ve also heard Torrent Galaxy is good as well. As always though be really careful with what you download no matter what. Always run a scan on files you download.

3. Qbittorrent is the best.