I've been wanting to get into torrenting for a while, particularly contributing to private trackers related to music (and to a lesser extent retro games, though I don't have much original stuff to put there as it's harder to find rare games than rare music). FMHY recommends RiseUp if I must get a free VPN while I'm working on my financial situation, though I'm not sure whether it's been tested in court. What are my options, if any?

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[–] plateee@piefed.social 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Look at newsgroups - some indexers are free, others have a lifetime fee that's reasonable. I moved to nzbs and haven't looked back - I can't get dinged for sharing copyrighted stuff if I'm only downloading, never uploading.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

there exists a free newsgroup indexer that contains binaries?

[–] plateee@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There's a few - but typically the free ones have limits on the number of downloads per day.

Nzbfinder and bin search used to be okay.

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Which ones are okay now?

[–] cooper8@kbin.earth 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

any specific lifetime fee indexers you recommend?

[–] plateee@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Nzb geek and planet are two good ones.