The original post: /r/piracy by /u/oddhat2020 on 2025-02-23 03:36:30.
Hi Everybody,
I am new to piracy and my tech skills are basic. With the current global political climate and BS of not owning the media, I pay for I just want my own copies of the media I enjoy. I am looking for some advice/ encouragement that I will wrap my head around all this new information. For context about my current ability I use standard windows/ android phones without issues and when gaming, I have downloaded CC and Mods using youtube tutorials.
So far I have been direct downloading from Oceans of PDF without issues and have downloaded Calibre to organise my books.
I want to get into torrenting to get Audiobooks/ textbook/ Movies/TV etc. My understanding that to do this relatively safely I will need:
- an Ad Blocker
- a VPN
- and antiviral software
- torrent software
to be extra safe I'd ideally be using a second computer without personal information on it and running a Linux system? or is that overkill?
over the last few days, I have definitely fallen down the rabbit hole of owning my digital media/ Opensoures/ right to repair/ lack of privacy.
If this is just an incomprehensible mess of words that makes no sense I apologise, this is the best my brain could do currently.