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Got an email from ISP (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by penquin@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemm.ee

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How does this firm (or whatever it is) know I torrented something? My VPN app took a shit in the middle of a download and I think it exposed my IP to some "anti-piracy" bullshit firm that contacted my ISP. ISP emailed to let me know and to "not do it again". How does this firm know about torrenting? Do they like watch these sites and hope someone's VPN slips like mine did today?

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[–] Duckling5746 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bind your torrent client to your VPN interface so that if the VPN loses connection for whatever reason, nothing downloads or uploads via your client.

[+] penquin@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] Duckling5746 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm using qBittorrent's web ui, and you get to the setting from Options (cog symbol)->Advanced tab->Network Interface. Figuring out which network interface is the VPN interface depends on your OS.

[+] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, it will now only be able to access the Internet via that interface even if proton is running but not actually connected.

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They watch the swarm. You can view connections of the swarm. They see your ISP owned IP and send an email.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

be careful, sometimes it's a scam or a cash grab with no legal basis.

[–] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 7 points 9 months ago

Look into transmission open VPN docker container. Forces/ensures VPN connection. Easy to setup and configure.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Proton has a very nice article on how to set up torrenting: https://protonvpn.com/support/bittorrent-vpn/

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

a killswitch is a must-have in this case then

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

killswitch doesn't work because packets can still get through between the time when the VPN goes offline and when it activates, need to bind torrent client to vpn or have some firewall configuration to prevent non-vpn traffic

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

You might want to cross post to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Getting a seedbox is pretty easy and generally cheap too.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've heard they monitor the torrents and try downloading from the peers as evidence of them distributing the content.

Anyway, you could set up firewall rules to only allow connections via VPN interface (and out to the VPN server, of course).

[+] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oof, sorry. This will depend on OS and the software you use for FW configs. I am too dumb.

For example, I use UFW on Linux. So for me it's

# Deny all incoming and outgoing traffic by default
ufw default deny outgoing
ufw default deny incoming

# Allow connection to VPN server
ufw allow out to <VPN server IP address> [port] <VPN server port number> [proto] <tcp|udp>

# Allow connection via VPN interface
ufw allow out on <interface name> from any to any

# Enable UFW
ufw enable

That's just one simple way.

[–] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Swap provider(just for the doubts) and implement a good way of killswitching it.. good luck!!