I share a network with my roommates. How can I pirate without risking action against them? (piefed.ca)

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Hi all.

I've pirated before, but on my own independent network. For reasons I won't get into I've gone from living independently to living with roommates, and while I personally don't have anything against piracy myself, my current concern is that because things are on a shared network, I don't want them to get dinged by our ISP should I get caught in the act.

Beforehand, because it was my own network, my actions, my consequences to face in the rare circumstance that I do get caught (which hasn't happened yet), everything was smooth sailing.However, even if the likelihood of this happening is low, I don't want others facing consequences for my own actions.

What are some ways I can generally mitigate this issue? I mostly just pirate movies, and was curious if using streaming websites from FMHY or using SoulSeek would have the same risk as torrenting.

Edit: My region is Canada to help.

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[-] ColdBrewedPiss@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago

I’m in camp seed box, or go the Real Debrid/Stremio route and don’t actually host any files on your network. Usenet, maybe with SoulSeek, is also a good route to go.

Otherwise, as others have said, get a VPN. Spend the money you’re not spending on streaming sites on a good one, like Mullvad.

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Don't use Mullvad, not because they aren't good but because they don't have port forwarding which is necessary to properly connect to others in the swarm.

[-] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago

Also Mullvad money goes to Nazis

[-] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Are there any good alternatives now? I havent kept up to date with VPN's in a few years.

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