DynDNS? I’m not 100% sure what CF Tunnel does, but from my 2 min reading it seems that DynDNS would accomplish what OP described just as well.

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As I was gonna pay for shit in the first place lol.

If you use .iso files you will be missing out in quality and availability. If a better version of something you already burned is released, you will miss on that too.

If you use .mkv files, then why bother with discs in the first place? HDD in network and access everything, everywhere at any time.

If you start to scale to TBs, the price per GB of HDDs starts to drop dramatically. Look for refurbished HDDs in eBay.

The only real reason I can think of where physical beats digital is for playing the FEL DV layer on some UHD releases. But even then, there are ways to circumvent that.

I’m also in Germany. I use PIA which has been proven in court to be no-log. The setup is not as smooth as others (Port Forwarding requieres some scripting) but it is also one of the cheapest.

You can pay with crypto.

Nobody mentioned Popcorn Time? It is a bit torrent client with an integrated media player. It does exactly what you are asking + it has a great “poster wall” interface.

Fuck man this was one of my favorite trackers. I hope they get the situation under control.

I have private trackers and Usenet and my quality profiles in the *arrs mostly always pick from torrents. I will cancel my Usenet subscription. I also kinda like the grind of private trackers just for the heck of it.

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Because what I said in the first paragraph. If your provider is not a proven no-logger, get another one.

I’ve heard from Italian friends that been doing it for ever and nothing happened.

As long as your VPN provider is a proven no-logger, just go with the best performance.

But if you really want to pick countries, Eastern Europe, Italy and Switzerland just to name a few. If you are in the US I wouldn’t be crossing the pond with my VPN but that’s up to you.

Trash is for setting up, wiki for troubleshooting.

If you don’t already, you can setup “healthchecks” for your containers, specially useful for qbit and Gluetun. That way, you may restart one if any condition fails using Autoheal.

Also check qbitmanage to setup seeding goals.

And best of all, where is Recyclarr? Sync that bitch right into your arrs to get consistently only the very best out there.

Most trackers are fine with you sharing their content. Heck, most trackers don’t even produce most of their content.

But let’s suppose they do. If you wanna share it, they cannot ever trace it back to your account, unless you are dumb and use the same username or something, but even then you can argue that it wasn’t you.

You can do the same with just 3 containers: qBittorrent, qbit manage, and some VPN. You will be saving a ton of resources while having more granular control over how you handle the seeding. That’s what I have :)

I have a friend who is sharing his Argentine account with me. How he pays I don’t really know. The important bit for me was to VPN to Arg before logging in. Maybe search in YouTube for instructions?

Pay for premium in Argentina, set a VPN to verify, checks out for me. Family plan is so effing cheap.

Sorry, I don’t know those services.

I actually don’t use Plex but Infuse, but OP is not in iOS so I went with that recommendation. You can also build your own “seedbox” if you are willing to have a server running 24/7 and have an ok internet. That’s my setup.

For me the benefit is 4K remuxes from top tier release groups (like Framestor) . If you can get there with your setup, I don’t really see a drawback.

Pay for Plex and a seedbox or Usenet and be free while also having the best quality there is. I invested my money in a few HDDs and I watch from every service out there for peanuts.

You have to expose the qbt http port in your VPN container. All API communication (arrs etc) goes through here.

I have two containers, qBittorrent and the VPN:

• VPN is fully tunneled and encrypted.
• qbt only ever sees the VPN as its network. It is logically isolated from my main gateway.
• there are healthchecks running, so if the VPN fails qbt enters in a restart loop until the VPN is back to a healthy status.
• I use private trackers for 99% of my torrents.

You also have to know that these scummy law firms use honey pot attacks, where they advertise themselves as leechers and record your IP if you upload to them. Technically a proxy to another country would just be enough here, but hey, this works too and I sleep better.

I’ve been doing it for almost 10 years. I know what I am doing. I have several layers of security.

If you however are a tech illiterate then of course you’ll get fined. I have friends who got fined too.

I have downloaded dozens of terabytes in Germany and I’m doing fine buddy.

You know you have that configured to look into specific sites, right?

I know it is in Usenet. Also IPTorrents has it.

Best depends on your needs. For me it’s an Apple TV with Infuse.

Sorry I meant PF, corrected.

Not compose, I use unRAID. This put this container in the other container’s net. If you google for unRAID you find it quite fast.

Yes I PF. The VPN container drops the dynamically assigned port to a file that a start up script for qbt reads and hard writes it in the config file. Fun stuff.

Just the normal monitor process in the Arrs and then the magic happens in qbit manage. There you can set up targets for your torrents (share ratio, seeding times, etc). Also autobrr puts me in the very first people to download a torrent, so it helps in keeping a good ratio. Cross-seed also pumps up the ratio a lot.

Recyclarr is very important for me because I am assured to request only the very best quality for the things I care.

My setup is complex but only because I invested way too much time in. You can get to 80% what I have in a few days and still get awesome results.

You set the network up as container:vpncontainername

Edit: correction

The whole Arr suite, plus others. I have a 24/7 low power machine running the following on unRAID with containers:

• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Prowlarr
• Overserr
• qBittorrent
• a VPN container
• Recyclarr
• cross-seed
• qbit manage (this is key)
• unpackerr
• autobrr

I have more of course but this is what’s relevant to you.

I also have some custom scripts for patching some things up to my like.

There are semi private trackers out there that you can get an invite fairly easy, as do open signups pretty often.

You don’t need to think about it too much, as most 4K content usually crosses the trigger for freeleech. That means you are fine as long as you don’t do a Hit ’n Run, which in itself is an asshole thing to do.

I have a fully automated system and don’t even bother checking where I am downloading from, or what my ratios are, all is taken care in the background.

While I do agree with you, there’s are a lot of things to still get good ratios OP can do with their home server, that’s why I mentioned the other stuff.

I use autobrr and have a midsize collection with maximum quality settings in Radarr and Sonarr through Recyclarr. Almost all my torrents have +1 ratio, and my upload speed is 54 Mbps (around 6 or 7 MB/s).

When I was using qBittorrent in a container in a Rasperry Pi 4, it was definitely the raw power that’s was throttling my downloads. You may wanna check CPU usage, specially if going through a VPN.

Also try limiting the maximum number of connections and slots for download and upload. You want to connect to less people but still use the same bandwidth, which is basically transmitting more data to those people.

How are you “among the firsts to get a torrent”? In private trackers, people use special software to be the very first, and on top of that seed-boxes with 10, 40 or even 100 symmetrical Gbps. Check “autobrr” to get started. It is not uncommon that you for example reupload a torrent from other tracker to get some sweet ratio and somebody cross-seeds your torrent and starts uploading before you.

I know it’s probably not what you’re looking for in terms of budget, but I use an Apple TV with a portable router called Beryl AX connected to an USB Drive when I’m traveling. To any hotel’s dumb TV I connect the ATV, and then my router through Ethernet. And there you go, all my travel drive to see and use with Infuse.

Infuse is super powerful and through name parsing you get this media “wall” interface, just as Netflix so to speak. You a get zero ad experience over all.

On the plus side this Router can connect to any Wi-Fi and re-route the traffic (kinda like a repeater but fancier), so you get your own private Wi-Fi and your ATV has also internet.

Edit: I don’t know about any of those systems you mentioned, but using a ad-filtering DNS (like AdGuard) you may be able to stop ads over there. It worked for me with Tizen OS.

piracy = not paying for stuff - in many countries around the world, that’s more like a cultural thing. I know because I’ve in both sides. I come from a 3rd world country but now live in Europe.

Option one is kinda busted because your ISP can see what you’re doing. Also there have been cases of people getting sued anyway in semi-private trackers like IPT and TL.

Just to add to the conversation. German law firms get you by doing a honey pot attack. That means that they connect to the tracker as a downloaded to see who’s offering to upload. Then they send the info to your ISP to get your information and sue you.

This means that only real private trackers are kinda safe. If you go TL or IPT they may get in too, as these trackers are open for registration many times a year.

All in all, it is important to know how they try to track you.