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How is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The first thing I do with my isp provided modem is set it to bridge mode.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

why is port forwarding a premium feature? isn't it just a setting on your router

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called "CGNAT". Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

that is wild, man

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Bc $$$.

My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.

You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Likely they don't have enough IPs to go around

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I use Proton VPN which has port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Rent a seed box. That's the best solution for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Does STUN no longer work to allow port-forwarding when needed by P2P applications?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We just need to add I2P directly into the client in a way that's transparent to the user and all the problems are solved.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

How does the I2P architecture solve the port forwarding issue. Is peer discovery easier within I2P?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Look in to i2p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone correct me here.

If I have i2P enabled on my qBittorent client and I start seeding a torrent downloaded from a non-i2P connection.

Does my seed of it allow others to download that torrent through i2P?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

No, you need to cross seed. A torrent client that allows for this is biglybt. Or you need to manually re upload it on i2p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

TIL it's not L2P, as in "Learn 2 Peer"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never had a problem with it in Spain. What is different where you live? CGNAT?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I think it's that VPN providers offering port forwarding are becoming fewer and fewer.

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