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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[-] waxrhetorical@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

For someone whose main focus isn't networking, do you have a guide or similar I can read to catch up? I'm running my setup on a properly killswitched VPN, but having firewall rules that are only valid for the VPN seems like an interesting extra step.

[-] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Id start here, or whatever equivalent guide your provider has.

Essentially when you setup the firewall rules in pfsense you can specify a gateway in the advanced section of the rule.

As far as NAT, you just setup NAT for that subnet/vlan to go out over the VPN's outward IP instead of your own.

Both are required steps to get it working AFAIK.

[-] waxrhetorical@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks! Will dig into it

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