The following advice does not apply to piracy, it’s just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.
Install qbittorrent.
Use a VPN (windscribe has a free tier) whenever qbittorrent is running, even in the background, even when you aren’t downloading. Make sure qbittorrent doesn’t run on startup, it’s in settings. This makes sure nobody can see that your IP is torrenting perfectly legal content, for privacy.
Find a torrent. If you go to the pirate bay (top result on duckduckgo), be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
Search for your legally torrentable movie/show and press the magnet (or copy the magnet link) next to the torrent with the most seeders (SE)
paste the link into qbittorrent, optionally select “download first and last pieces first” and “download sequentially”, if you want to watch while downloading.
Always check the file extension of any files before opening - mp4 etc is safe, don’t run any .exe files. There is malware out there, especially in torrented games.
Be nice and keep seeding torrents after downloading
I’ve never had an issue with it. I don’t use qbit’s “restart on boot” setting, but rather use my OS’ ‘start apps on reboot’ feature with a minute delay that ensures the network is connected, with VPN on, and stabilized. /shrug
The following advice does not apply to piracy, it’s just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.
There’s a piracy comm on lemmy at lemmy.dbzer0.com.
(If any mods don’t want advice for legal torrenting here, apologies and feel free to delete my comment)
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So is false advertising and fraud but the major streaming services don’t seem to care.
In Advanced settings there’s the ability to bind to a network. Bind to the vpn and qbittorrent won’t work at all without the VPN engaged.
True, though I’ve found this to frequently break after reboot
I’ve never had an issue with it. I don’t use qbit’s “restart on boot” setting, but rather use my OS’ ‘start apps on reboot’ feature with a minute delay that ensures the network is connected, with VPN on, and stabilized. /shrug
Windscribe doesn’t work with p2p in their free tier anymore: https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/does-windscribe-allow-peer-to-peer-p2p-traffic/
I used to use Windscribe free tier before I paid to get proper unlimited VPN (Proton VPN).
Now for similar free VPN for torrent, I recommend PrivadoVPN. That still worked for me when I tried 3 months ago.