Download help for noob

[thatguy1527]

I'll be the first to admit I'm a total noob and don't know shit about shit. Never torrented before.

From what I understand, I obviously need to get utorrent to open the torrent. Now what is the VPN you guys speak of? Is it similar to a torbrowser? I've used a torbroswer before and based on my little knowledge, would assume that is a fairly safe way of downloading the torrent.

Can someone help? I want to safely download the torrent posted on the fappening.sexy and want to try to do so for free.

P.S. sorry if this is in the wrong subforum

thanks

[adunpower]

VPN means Virtual Private Network and it's a network technology creating secure network connection over the net by a service provider. So you should buy one first. Free ones are useless never gives safety do not forget! In short this is what VPN is. Advice is try google u'll find all the answers u seek so no need to be a noob;)

[Caw]

So a VPN basically provides a tunnel between your PC and some other computer somewhere else. Everything that goes out of (and comes in to) your PC over the network is now encrypted between your computer and the computer somewhere else, at which point it looks like it normally would only it's coming from that computer's IP address instead of yours. The encryption means that your ISP can't snoop the traffic, doesn't know it's torrent traffic, and therefore can't punish/autodowngrade the speed or anything. The NSA could probably still snoop it (definitely could do it before Heartbleed was fixed).

But the VPN provider or it's ISP can certainly snoop the traffic coming out of the other end, say "hey, that traffic's coming from the VPN tunnel assigned to user X", and still fuck up your shit. Which is why you don't use a free VPN for shit that's globally considered illegal, you pay for one that's got a good reputation for purging their logs on a timely manner. (You use a free VPN when you want to google titty pictures in China, not when you want to use it like HBO Go). VPNs primarily provide <security>, not <privacy>. Privacy you have to shop around for.

The step up from that is a seedbox...downloading a torrent over a VPN is still dependent on your home upload/download speed. A "seedbox" is a cheap computer (or login to a computer) sitting somewhere else with a fat pipe to the internet. That cheep computer is running your torrent client, and you just upload the torrent file to it and then it uses it's fat pipe to download the thing as fast as it can (and seed a ton too, if you need to care about your ratio). Then you use some other sort of encrypted connection (sftp, scp, https) to download the files you want...the key being that unlike torrents, sftp and the others copy the files from start to finish, so if you have a fast enough home connection you can start watching a video after it's been downloading for a few minutes and it'll keep downloading while you're watching.

[thatguy1527]

So to confirm, it seems like there is no recommended way to do this for free? I would love to have the pictures but don't care enough to pay for them.

Also, anybody know the legality of the situation here? I guess it is legal to be posted on this site. However, is it actually legal to download and possess theses photos? my guess is yes because while they are not my property, they are not copywrited either.

Please feel free to PM me if this is information you would rather discuss privately

P.S.: I do not possess any of these photos at this time.

[Caw]

Depends on how paranoid you are. With photos, whoever took the photo owns the copyright. Possessing a copyrighted photo isn't a problem. Distributing it without the holder's permission can be, but the holders are going to be using their resources to attack web sites for the most part, they're not going to go after a guy who was seeding for a day.

The main issue, and I don't know if it's true of the one you're looking at or not, is that some of the torrents contain pictures of MM (the gymnast) and BT(disney red-head) who were/are underage. So then if you have those on your computer, and you do anything else that gives the police cause to search your PC, bingo, you're on the hook for child porn as well as whatever you actually did. So I'd recommend going the extra step and not just start the torrent up, but also go through the list of names and filter out ones that might get you in trouble.

[oldfapper]

can not you just upload it to megashare?