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Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by nivenkos »

Jhsto wrote: post #73

Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…

I use vopono to run (only) Jackett through a VPN connection too.

It feels great when it all works together.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by fao_ »

permo-w wrote: post #92
seoaeu wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So either rent a server in some country that doesn’t recognize copyright law, or uproot your entire life and move there? Why would anyone choose the second option?

the UK would be a good example of what they're referring to. in the UK there's absolutely no enforcement of consumer internet piracy laws whatsoever

Well, there is. You usually get a redirect to a website that says

THIS HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY THE HIGH COURT

or some shit. and then at that point you find the other domain that isn't, or just type in the IP. It's all very shallow

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

#113

Post by [deleted] »

seoaeu wrote: post #63
kyruzic wrote: post #36

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Or just live somewhere where consuming copyrighted content isn't a crime

So either rent a server in some country that doesn’t recognize copyright law, or uproot your entire life and move there? Why would anyone choose the second option?

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Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

#114

Post by barnabee »

fao_ wrote: post #112
permo-w wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the UK would be a good example of what they're referring to. in the UK there's absolutely no enforcement of consumer internet piracy laws whatsoever

Well, there is. You usually get a redirect to a website that says THIS HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY THE HIGH COURT or some shit. and then at that point you find the other domain that isn't, or just type in the IP. It's all very shallow

Or use another DNS service (Quad9, Cloudflare, Google, etc.) and never even be aware the block exists :)

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by TechBro8615 »

Rerarom wrote: post #72
npteljes wrote: post #70

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You can query trackers and DHT for torrents, and they return a bunch of IPs that are seeding/downloading the torrent. And then, as an ISP, you can combine IPs to subscriptions. Check out this website that does the IP querying part for you: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

Wow! I never thought there were records of that.

There’s a Defcon talk circa 2013 about crawling DHTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQrNoCwxgE

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

#117

Post by sph »

nivenkos wrote: post #111
Jhsto wrote: post #73

Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on…

I use vopono to run (only) Jackett through a VPN connection too. It feels great when it all works together.

On my NAS I run a Mullvad/WireGuard container with a kill switch, and Jackett, qBittorrent, etc. share its network stack. Being able to do so with a single Docker Compose option (`network_mode: container:vpn`) is a killer feature.

So I download everything I can't legally access here, and don't have to worry about my IP leaking. Then on my TV I open Kodi and enjoy.

Cheaper than Netflix+Prime+Hulu+Disney+Apple+HBO and pretty low maintenance.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by pdimitar »

sph wrote: post #117
nivenkos wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use vopono to run (only) Jackett through a VPN connection too. It feels great when it all works together.

On my NAS I run a Mullvad/WireGuard container with a kill switch, and Jackett, qBittorrent, etc. share its network stack. Being able to do so with a single Docker Compose option (`network_mode: container:vpn`) is a killer feature. So I download everything I can't legally access here, and don't have to worry about my IP leaking. Then on my TV I open Kodi and enjoy. Cheaper than Netflix+Prime+Hulu+Disney+Apple+HBO and…

I'd love a writeup or a guide.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by sph »

pdimitar wrote: post #118
sph wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On my NAS I run a Mullvad/WireGuard container with a kill switch, and Jackett, qBittorrent, etc. share its network stack. Being able to do so with a single Docker Compose option (`network_mode: container:vpn`) is a killer feature. So I download everything I can't legally access here, and don't have to worry about my IP leaking. Then on my TV I open Kodi and enjoy. Cheaper than Netflix+Prime+Hulu+Disney+Apple+HBO and…

I'd love a writeup or a guide.

Best I can do is share my Compose files :)

https://gist.github.com/1player/dbdafdd197e1623f5831108fc0cc...

It's pretty simple overall: gluetun is the VPN container, qBittorrent runs inside of it and downloads torrents, Jackett is a torrent search aggregator, Sonarr&Radarr use Jackett+qBittorrent to download movies and TV shows when they release, Bazarr adds subtitles after the fact.

Everything goes into a media directory, which my NAS shares via SMB. Only effort required is paying my VPN subscription and updating the Docker images once in a while.

Re: Popcorn Time Is Back

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Post by thegabriele »

neurostimulant wrote: post #99
thegabriele wrote: post #89

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Well i found many unexpected adult type contents too, how can i tell if my local ISP uses CGNAT?

The easiest way is to just compare what your actual public ip address is (e.g. using `curl ifconfig.me`) and what actually configured as WAN ip address in your router/modem. If it doesn't match, you're likely behind a CGNAT.

Thanks, well it seems theyknowwhatidownload but imnot.
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