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Hello all! New member here but long time viewer of LTT on YouTube. I was wondering, and cannot wrap my head around a doubt. I have surfed through multiple forums but cannot find a credible enough answer, so I decided to try here as well. Basically, my setup includes but is not limited to: 1 MikroTik router, multiple vlans, one unraid server (with the usuals for movies, tv series and torrent handler. Will not go into detail, but if you know, you know). And finally two ISPs. I have failover configured and it works properly. What I want to know is this: 1. Will the VPN tunnel to Windscribe, in this particular case, leak packets (of the torrents) out of the tunnel if I configure ECMP on the router to bind both ISP speeds? 2. Do commercial VPNs connect from one origin IP (let's say, ISP1) to their VPN servers on whatever city, and country it might be? 3. Should I just route torrent traffic through one ISP and forget about torrenting through ECMP and do a kill switch configuration on the router when failover? This would be considering that ECMP will be configured but torrenting will just go through one ISP with marked packets. Please, I'm requesting everybody's knowledge come into play in this one post. If additional information is needed to clear doubts, say no more and I'll provide what I have and what I do know. Thanks all .

I've been using PIA for years with no issues but for whatever reason today i opened qbitorrent and was getting absolutely ATROCIOUS download speeds (kilobits). (I have a 400-450 ish megabit connection through spectrum) i ran speed test through the vpn and was getting like 2 megabit on a good run. I then closed qbitrorrent. reloaded speedtest through the vpn. ran it again. and got 300 megabit+. i then opened qbittorrent again reloaded speed test and once again got terrible speeds. tested in this fashion a few more times and got fairly consistent results. has anyone else had an issue like this? Did PIA start throttling people for torrenting? I tried asking this same question on reddit but it got immediately removed. I didnt see a rules section on the pia sub so as far as i know i didnt break any rules and i got no indication as to why it was removed. But after what I experienced from where i'm sitting this whole thing is looking super sus. Thanks in advance hope you're all having an awesome day!

Does the constant reads (and maybe writes too, I'm not sure) seeding a torrent requires degrades the SSD and shortens its lifetime?

Hi, i have question, I wanted to download 100gb torrent but i have 42gb on system disc and 200gb on disc i want download file to, and do i need to have 100gb on my system disc too? like i dont know so pls someone answer

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/end-pirate-bay-virgin-media-9765951 This will lead to a clusterf**k i think. Lets face it VPNs and someone will come up with a bypass somewhere i think.

I was wondering if torrenting on a VM would compromise the security of using a VM in any way considering how the torrenting technology works?

whenever I start to download a torrent of more than about 500MB the link to the nas is lost just gives a popup error and stopps the DL

Reddit thread. Copying a explanation comment because they did it way better than I ever could. This is the beginning of implementing the UK blocking system in Canada. There will be mission creep just like the UK. The beginning of telling you what you are and are not aloud to do with the bandwidth you pay for. They say it's for one thing now but just wait. you already see how authoritarian they are. CRTC Link [–]multiplegeorges r/Canada So, I went through the primary document in the application bundle and here it is in their own words. What they want implemented Note that this does not explain who would make up the IPRA and where they would come from. They propose that this be determined at a later date. It will almost certainly be staffed and lead by industry beholden people. Why they want this implemented The cite lots of general US and Australian stats and apply them to the Canadian situation, assuming it is the same here: What does this have to do with Canada? Nice extrapolation. No evidence from Canadian sources on this. Here's the actual reason they want this implemented. They aren't able to compete with OTT services and are losing subscribers. And they don't even know if how much piracy is affecting their poor subscriber numbers, but oh man, they are sure that it is! But don't worry, they want this done to protect us from the hackers... Some tired arguments we've seen before Argument Reality They are losing all their subscribers to piracy Wrong. They are not competing effectively against OTT services like Netflix. Plus, their set-top boxes are the goddamn worst pieces of crap machines and I can use my phone to stream Netflix to my Chromecast. AND THERE ARE NO ADS. They are losing subscribers because their services are bad. Every downloaded show or movie counts as negative revenue in their spreadsheets. This assumes everyone who pirate something would actually spend money on it. This is obviously false and is the same tired old argument we saw in software piracy and music piracy. For both those industries, cheaper and more convenient services have effectively wiped out piracy: Steam and Spotify/iTunes. It's killing the Canadian creative industry False. It's doing great. Consumer spending is up. // The whole market is shifting to OTT and non-broadcaster production is doing well. In Conclusion It's the same argument we saw against music piracy with Napster and against video game piracy with IRC/FTP servers back in the day. Their content is too expensive and/or too annoying to access. Both those industries have solved this issue by adapting to the market. Our domestic BDUs do not want to adapt or invest in competitive services. They are proposing a hammer to kill a flea. I propose that piracy is a tiny part of the problem and if there was a way I could buy channels a la carte without ads, I might actually get a cable box again. Until then, it's Netflix and going to the movie theatre for me.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/us-looks-prosecute-owner-kickass-912953 The Owner and site operator of KickassTorrents, Artem Vaulin, has been arrested today, if anyone was curious.

So, i have gotten ddos'd so many times while trying to seed. legal programs such as linux iso. But since I do not have a vpn, and your ip, gets shared, i am constantly under ddos attacks. People think they are funny, but really it is not. So any suggestions? I seed a lot on my old desktop.

I have AIRVPN, but will it work? I mean, does using a vpn solve the problem, i tried it dindt

any dafe kickass torrent mirror? thanks in advance, trollers welcome jk

Hi guys, I was just wondering if any of you could help me out with some research I am carrying out for my university work. I basically want to get a feel for the general public's opinion on torrents. If you could spare just a few minutes to answer 3 very simple questions I'd be really happy! I don't require any personal data apart from what age range you fall into. http://goo.gl/forms/mLOh0a2AjVRgDaVo1

Major torrent site proxy network has gone down, many suspecting it is due to law enforcement. The sites helped users bypass cruel censorship, and annoyed copyright holders to no end. While the operators of the sites cannot be found, one of them said this to torrentfreak in a previous article. Although now we have some insight to the operators of the original torrent sites http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/proxy-websites-pirate-bay-kickass-torrents-more-disappear-proxyhouse-blitz-1523794 https://torrentfreak.com/thousands-of-torrent-site-proxies-disappear-151013/

Some great news from Greece this time. Two years ago, The Greek Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AEPI) sued the local ISP's as they refused to block access to Thepiratebay, Kickasstorrents, Isohunt, 1337, H33T, plus a few local sites. The court ruling came out a few days ago in favor of the ISP's and their clients. Although Greece is not the first country to oppose the "big guys" it’s still worth mentioning. There were some really good points made by the Greek court, as to why they decided to take the side of the ISP's. First and foremost: blocking the websites in the past has shown to have no effect upon the accessibility of the aforementioned websites, with the use of VPN's and proxies anyone can access them the same way they would before any blockade is applied. Second point: Although these websites are more known for sharing illegal material, blocking them would also affect all legal uses as well. Third and most important point: as per Article 16 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, proceeding with the blockades would violate the freedom of sharing and receiving information, jeopardize the legal use of those infrastructures, and lastly violating the rights of the defendant ISP providers in entrepreneurship. The Greek court made some great points that can be used as examples for the US approach to the highly debated net neutrality that has been boiling lately more information can be found on the original article form torrentfreak below: http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-blockades-are-disproportional-greek-court-rules-150121/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&utm_content=FaceBook

This is a week old but I haven't seen it on here and I did a quick search. Basically Google changed their algorithm to eliminate sites that receive a high number of DCMA requests. Sauce: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/google-rolling-out-new-anti-piracy-search-algorithm/ Apparently it is already having an effect with some sites down 60-90%. Follow Up: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/project-free-tv-torrent-sites-drop-in-google-results-with-new-algorithm/ Personally I am very irritated that Google is messing with the search results. I want to judge what link I am interested in myself not have Google do it for me based off some taste profile. I would change search engines if there were any other good ones.

A lot of you guys are probably running something a lot more complex like Sickbeard or nzbdrone - this solution most likely isn't for you, although it might be... If you often find yourself manually downloading new episodes of your favourite show after they have aired on television then this tutorial could be for you because you can automate that entire process and more... I must state now that I do NOT take credit for anything mentioned in this tutorial. This tutorial is basically a simplified version of this one with RSS torrent feeds added on. Here's what you need to do, Get a torrent client with RSS functionality (I recommend qBittorent) Get Filebot Sign up to showRSS and add all of your favourite shows to your personal list Once you've done that, you can automate your TV show downloads in a few very simple steps, Generate your personal showRSS feed address Add the RSS feed to your Torrent client* If you don't already, keep your incomplete torrents in a separate folder In qBittorrent go to Tools>Options>Downloads and enable 'Run and external program on torrent completion' then enter the following, Be sure to change the file directories to your proper video and download folders. If you would like to know more about the script then read here. The process of downloading your favourite TV shows, renaming them and placing them into the correct folder should now be completely automated. The renaming and file moving functionality also works with movies. For example: if you download an episode of South Park (either manually or via the RSS feed) it will rename the file 'South Park - SxxExx - Episode Name' and move it into the following sub-folder of your video directory .../TV Shows/South Park/Season xx/South Park - SxxExx - Episode Name. Thank you for reading and I hope that at least one of you guys finds this useful. Enjoy

Piracy is a big issue around the world, you may have you opinions, but regardless it hurts developers. Many people I know torrent games to see if they are worth buying. Due to the fact games can be deceiving when just looking at pictures on Steam before paying for it why don't we have more demo's to test out the game for a short amount of time. I think that if Steam made it mandatory for developers to have a demo available for new games it could help improve their profits and save our money as consumers. If we see a game we might like, but are not sure to buy, having a demo available might just help you say yes or no. What do you guys think of this idea?

I consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable when it comes to tech stuff, but I don't know a lot as well. I need a bit of help regarding torrents. Seeding: I get that you're uploading data you've downloaded, but are you uploading it directly to a person that's leaching? Do those people have access to your connection details and IP? I use a VPN connection when downloading. Ratio: How much should I seed and what ratio should I maintain? Most of what I see says to keep a 1:1 ratio - which makes sense, as you're uploading as much as you've leached off other users. However, I see others saying to keep a 2:1 ratio. How exactly would that even work? How can you upload more than 1:1? Would a 1:1 Ratio not mean that you've downloaded the entire file, and then uploaded all those chunks for leaches as well (assuming you downloaded the torrent 100% in this case)?

Basically, ISPs are going to start mailing out letters to people who pirate, in order to persuade them to buy. It looks like they're kind of tired of attempting to deal with pirates completely, so they're just going to back off, but try to sway you in the direction of purchasing. I really doubt 4 letters a year would break a habit like pirating, but it all depends on the person. Maybe this will work. Thoughts? SOURCE: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-22-uk-changing-approach-to-illegal-torrents