You’ll only be able to upload to people who do have port forwarding. Other people who don’t have it setup won’t be able to download from you even though it shows you as a seeder in the pool.

These are the people that torrent without port forwarding capable VPNs and tell others they don’t need it because “it works fine!”

Narcing you out to who the Motion Picture Association?

Yeah I’m aware of that but I still have many things come from public trackers and haven’t ran into this issue in 7 years of using radarr/sonarr. You can easily add filters to block cam copies too.

Yeah I’ve tried it a couple times and don’t see the appeal. It’s like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won’t load. I don’t understand how streaming became so popular.

Also set up radarr and sonarr because it makes everything easy.

Works fine for me with a mix of public and private trackers include the cesspool, TPB. Typically shows hit up to 24 hours before their air date and I like being able to watch them early especially if the air date would be a day I’m working and wouldn’t be able to watch until the following week.

You could try adding some filters if you notice that these malicious files have similar tags or release groups.

I’m in the US with Comcast and mine changes at least once every couple of months.

It doesn’t have to be CGNAT to be another customer. ISPs typically rotate people’s IP addresses every so often so you’re bound to share one with someone who pirated at one point.

These systems work pretty great especially if you have shitty upload speeds but lots of HDD space. It also helps balance things out as seedbox users have high bandwidth but limited storage while home seeders have low bandwidth but high storage, meaning things spread quickly to start and stay available for a long time after.

As a workaround someone posted here about downloading YT videos and importing them into sonarr with some automated tools a few days ago.

It’s an LXC container running portainer/docker

I think the limited storage is the cause of your reservations. If you could just buy a few large HDDs, you can pool them all into a RAID array and then store your library and downloads on said pool. The arrs can then create hardlinks which allow you to have “two” copies of a file while only using the storage space of a single one. One stays in Qbittorrent and the other gets renamed and moved to your library automatically. You retain the files until both copies are deleted.

As far as setup goes, Trash guides are popular as mentioned in other comments. I ran all this on Windows for over a decade but recently setup proxmox and host everything in docker containers now (along with a bunch of other non-media related stuff). It got to a point where everything started running like shit on Windows and I regret not setting things up on a Linux based OS long ago because my library has become quite large and I was essentially ‘trapped’ in an unfriendly OS with no easy way out (I essentially had to buy and build a whole new pool of drives and then move all my media over weeks to avoid losses), so I would seriously consider a Linux based setup if you’re not already.

I have no advice on German media, but I would suggest trying to get into private trackers like you intend. Long-term seeding and freeleech files will take you a long way even if you have terrible upload speeds. I’ve built up dozens of TBs of upload credit with a 10Mbps upload speed just off bonus points and the little actual uploading I could do.

You can force a transcode by dropping the quality of the video in the player settings. Perhaps something is misconfigured with HW transcoding and that’s the actual reason why your videos aren’t playing (and not the codec issue I mentioned in my other comment).

There’s probably a codec issue where Plex thinks something can direct play but it can’t. I’ve had similar issues a few times over the years especially with audio codecs like EAC3 for example. Easiest thing to do is to just find a different version of the file and try to avoid that codec for the time being.

The statement you just made is unabashedly stupid beyond all measure

It’s hilarious you keep making statements like this as every point you make has been shown to either be uninformed or completely false. I sense strong projection here…

Everything you listed are crimes.

Torrenting isn’t a crime and downloading others’ IP is also not a crime. Sharing others’ IP can be a crime in some jurisdictions. There is also a gap as wide as the Grand Canyon between sharing a Taylor Swift album and distributing child porn or hacking into government systems which is why I put a qualifier on my statement. I’m surprised a stable genius such as yourself couldn’t understand the difference. You’re basically claiming that speeding and murder are equivalent crimes here.

It’s essentially illegal in every sovereign country on the planet save for a few.

What exactly are you defining as illegal here and what’s the level of enforcement in all these locations? Weed is illegal everywhere in the US, and yet I have been able to drive down to a store and buy it for the past 10 years without issue. Once again you don’t seem to grasp what you’re discussing, and I notice that you conveniently left off the rest of that statement since you presumably can’t form a coherent rebuttal like we keep seeing in all of your other comments here. For someone who puts their intelligence in such high regard, your replies seem to be anything but.

Mullvad didn’t remove port forwarding because people were torrenting too much they removed it because people were using it for real criminal activity like hacking and CP and they were getting heat for it.

I have no idea why you’re mentioning legal versus illegal torrenting as laws differ everywhere, they’re not banning OP for illegal activity, they’re not scanning all your files to determine whether it’s legal IP or not, and they’re banning him for using too much bandwidth.

Same here. Switched from Mullvad to AirVPN once they dropped port forwarding. I have had several issues with the Eddie client, but wound up dropping it in favor of gluetun and Wiresock with Wireguard configs and have had zero issues.

Unlimited means no data cap, not infinite bandwidth

How is limited bandwidth not a data cap? When you multiply a bandwidth limit x the number of days, hours, minutes, etc in a month, it sure looks like a data cap to me.

Does that even work? These companies know the IP ranges of many VPNs and block them.

I imagine there must be some other third party clients that allow you to import a Wireguard or OpenVPN config with split tunneling.

Edit: I turned my imagination into googling and it looks like a Wireguard split tunnel might work on a Mac but probably might not also. OpenVPN seemed more promising but I didn’t do a whole lot of reading.