https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/pirating-streaming-movies-in-germany
I didn’t know how Germans pirated and how they got caught, so I tried to do some research and found the article above, which is quite nice.
To summarize, your IP is visible to your ISP (internet service provider) and a law company can basically send a legal letter asking your ISP to identify you and you will be identified and your address and details will be given to the Lawyers. Now, you can either pay up or hire a lawyer and pay a lesser amount.
Now, the solution the article provided was, just use a VPN bro. But yes, VPNs can fail and not all VPNs allow you to torrent. So, how do these Germans pirate and not get caught?
PS: I obviously don’t condone pirate, asking for a friend who is an author.
My biggest problem is finding actual German language versions of popular movies and series. Where would one look for these?
Good VPN (I use PIA) > Docker > qBittorrent.
If you configure your VPN to be the only network available to your Docker Container, then leaks are technically impossible.
But if you just put qBt with a VPN and a proper configuration, it is almost as good.
I’m from Germany. In theory a VPN with a Killswitch is enough. In reality, I am so paranoid about Waldorf frommer that I only pirate using one click hosters.
A vpn?
Like mullvad
To summarize, your IP is visible to your ISP (internet service provider) and a law company can basically send a legal letter asking your ISP to identify you and you will be identified and your address and details will be given to the Lawyers.
That’s pretty much how it works in the US, FWIW. From my understanding there are torrenting clients that have a killswitch that stops the download immediately if your VPN fails.
