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How to seed properly and safely? [India] (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I heard that in some countries you can get fined for using torrents or seeding beyond a certain limit (Das Deutschlandlied intensifies). How to seed so that no idiot government would get hands on the fact that you are downloading torrents? I am pretty sure I can do this using Tails OS but what else? Is there a safe way to SEED TILL YOU BLEED?

It would have been nice if we (someone but not me) could have created a website where we could read a particular country's law and how to torrent safely from there.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Seeding is safe when you aren't using P2P discovery functions. If it is a private tracker, and everything is encrypted, you'll never have any issues. Stay away from public torrents that aren't explicitly controlled by a tracker unless it's freely available data (like a Linux distro).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Seeding is safe when you aren’t using P2P discovery functions.

edit: didn't downvote you. btw, is it true that you can see who downvoted you on lemmy? I don't want to but yeah idk seems somewhat interesting.

I am sorry, you would have to explain this to me :(

Also, what do you mean by private tracker, I create a torrent which has encrypted files and then I share that torrent & encryption keys with my friend. That kinda torrent?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

is it true that you can see who downvoted you on lemmy?

Out of the box no, but if you host a Lemmy server you can check in the SQL database who downvoted what, both locally and all posts that were synced using ActivityPub.