Not sure sure if you know about this but they reason they don’t allow it in other clients is the encrypted portion. However, they built a bridge recently that allows you to use it within other clients on Linux (not sure what other OS but looks like windows too) and I’ve been running it on the Evolution client since.

Proton Mail Bridge

I had tried to build one one time and got the ui down. As I started building the more complex arithmatic (chaining calculations) i realized how insanely complex it actually is. It made me realize how complex the most simple looking apps actually are.

Not sure about the whitelisting part, but I think this is what Brave already does. Randomizing fingerprinted data as opposed to blending in. Makes it hard to build a profile on.

For your first question, my guess would be its the largest fish. Proton probably has some users that harbor useful information but think about apples market dominace. It’s massive. And as far as I know, proton doesn’t have a business presence directly under UK jurisdiction; Apple has an enormous presence and billions in previous investments for employees and infrastructure there. Making it much easier to enforce those laws on them.

In other words, it’s like living in the country versus living in another country. My home country will have a much easier time forcing laws on me than a country I’m not even living in.

I’m unable to answer your second question though. I don’t know enough about legality.

Awesome, that was my next topic to look at was shows. Thanks for clarifying!

Ah nice. Well I think I just tried when I first set it up, saw it mess up, and figured I needed to rename, I’ll give it another try with this batch I upload later.

I will definitely give it a retry then. I mentioned in another comment that I could’ve sworn it didn’t when I first started and that’s why I started renaming, but I’ll try it again. Thanks!

If I remember correctly, when I first started the server, it was showing the name on the server as the long name with details instead of just the movie name. Although that could have been my fault.

On the seeding side, I’ve tried seeding the renamed files through the torrent but it seems since the movie names didn’t match it would start trying to download again instead of seeding directly. I may try transmission but I likes qbittorrents interface linking to the vpn. Transmission seems to need it typed out while qbittorrent let’s you select from a list. I just felt more confident having it selected as opposed to typed out.

It definitely felt like a right of passage lol. Ill be saving that. Might have to put it up on the wall to look back upon in my elder days.

That’s exactly how I do it too. Life is expensive so it’s hard to give to FOSS. But if the software you use is worth skipping a coffee run, or whatever it is just to give 1 or 2 bucks (yes I know coffee isn’t that cheap lol) then that’s just as good as giving more. Every little bit helps.

Well spoken. Free is more of a freedom to read, write, and use. Not free of cost. It’s amazing that a lot is free of cost but I highly recommend donating to those services you use regularly. Only if you can of course. I know money is tight for many people including myself.

This guy Seeds

Is the wear and tear a considerable amount over time? Or just something to consider as it does some compared to not seeding 24/7?

Oh dang, well so far it’s only a letter they sent to my ISP, in which they relayed that someone on my network was doing it with or without my knowledge.

My ISP has records I can look up the see the original email sent from the person who claimed the copyright. I was like, where did I mess up? They must not have very clear evidence.

Well… I was dead to rights Lmao. IP, movie name, times, data downloaded, etc. I’m hoping that’s the only thing that leaked in that time period and there isn’t more just qeueing lol.

But yeah, that’s why I wanted to share this post. Some people aren’t in countries where this matters, but for those of us that are, stay safe. Learn from others. Im lucky so far but someone may not be and get fined like in your situation.

I used Usenet but honestly I love being able to publicly seed for others. It feels like giving back so it’s a risk I’ll take over using usenet.

Much love to the community 🏴‍☠️

LMFAOOOO

“Linux ISO’s” lol

I’ll take a look at this. Is there any downsides to private trackers?

Cool! I’ll definitely check that out. Thanks!

Public I assume, I’m pretty new to torrenting and haven’t really dove into private trackers yet. Any resources your recommend on reading up on that?

Well, from what I understood, in the privacy subreddit people were getting into it over Graphene OS and other privacy android OS’s. During this, I guess the Devs (or dev) we’re very petty or something and causing unnecessary in-fighting. Icould be telling this wrong but its something along those lines… To be clear, i think the actual rule is you cant specifically mention ANY 3rd party android OS, not just Graphene.