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.

  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • kniescherz@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    OCHs were way more common in Germany than in other countries. Biggest boards like boerse and gulli used only OCHs. My guess is its because of those laws that torrenting was risky. But the truth is that for one pirate who used vpns, torrents and OCHs, there probably are a hundred people using streaming sites.

    If you are interested in the German piracy history, there is a book anout the gulli board: http://gulliwars.com/

  • Sirence@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • ANIMATEK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • fraydabson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I don’t live in Germany but it seems like a seed box or a Debrid service would fix that up nice and easy.

  • Clone_IX@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    My biggest problem is finding actual German language versions of popular movies and series. Where would one look for these?

  • bier@kbin.social
    25·
    10 months ago

    They dont use torrents. Never. Any fellow german i know that got busted used a torrent. There are lawfirms specialized sending letters to torrent users. In theory you could still get in trouble with streaming and one click hosters but in practice the chances are really slim. Lets just say i never got a letter from a lawfirm since i never used a torrent.