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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... (www.pandasecurity.com)
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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Port forwarding is a security hole.

Torrenting works without it just fine.

Not that I would ever pirate anything. That's would be immoral! After all...Billionaires schemed, lied and stepped on SO MANY people to get to be where they are!

How are billionaires supposed to afford their giant palace-sized mansions or their diamond-dusted platinum-plated Ferraris with ivory interiors if we pirate things?

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah port forwarding is required on at least one end to make connections with peers. You can download files without it provided the seeders have PF setup but you won't be able to seed anything, which breaks the fundamentals of P2P. This will also get you banned from private trackers if you're not seeding. With a VPN the forwarded port is through them not on your router so security isn't really an issue here.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm able to seed without it

Not that I would ever pirate anything! That would be immoral to steal a tiny infinitesimal amount money from billionaires