Same in the US.

I got one once from something I know for sure I didn't download. I always assumed it was a friend of mine staying with us that was torrenting "Boss's Daughter Big Booty XXX" or whatever it was, but I never really wanted to ask.

If you're purelly seeding (as in starting to seed a torrent from scratch never having downloaded it from the bittorrent client you're using or having done it a long time ago - days, weeks or longer), without port-forwarding it will simply not work and nobody can connect to your machine and downloade anything for that torrent because all those remote machines that are trying to connect to your client have no association with your machine on the Mullvad Router doing NAT translation.

If you're downloading a torrent and then leave it seeding for a while after the download phase is over, then it will usually work fine because the Mullvad Router doing NAT Translation still remembers the various remote machines that your machine connected to in the swarm for that torrent during the download stage, hence when those remote machines connect back trying to themselves download stuff from yours, it will know that's related your machine and thus accept those remote connection and forward them to your machine.

In practice this means that it if you leave your torrents seeding AFTER DOWNLOADING is over, usually (but not always as for torrents with very few peers the swarm is either too small or changes too fast) you can upload more than you downloaded, hence you're not leeching.

So if you use Mullvad and don't want to be a leecher, always leave your torrents active and uploading after you've downloaded them.

Personally I have mine set to 1.5 upload to download ratio and only seldom does it fail to reach it.

IIRC the judge said they could use the data for training, but specifically added that piracy is still piracy and he didn’t rule on that.

So Disney can just sue Meta for one trillion

Oh, so like they do in the uncivilized middle-east?
Naaaah

Best alternative is a seedbox. Preferably in the Netherlands.

"the internet" is a necessity and requirement to function in society. You can't be denied access to it anymore, it would be disproportionate.

wan -> wireguard client

wireguard client -> lan

But it's not piracy if you use it for an LLM, right‽

Several countries require proof of ID to purchase a SIM card.

I couldn't afford one of those fancy 2-cassette boomboxes, so I had my friend bring his tape deck and we put them real close together in the quietest room of the house and recorded that way. Having several siblings meant that there were no quiet places, so we used the empty garage when my parents were at work. The audio was autrocious, tons of echo and static, but I played that tape thin until it snapped.

You should already be underground

I keep my seedbox in the planter at the coffee shop down the road with free WiFi.

Alas, true for mine

Yes we are all training our LLMs. Perfectly legal.

Supreme Court: "One of us! One of us!"

Yeah, it worked so well at Alcatraz.

What's crazy is that Trump claims to be against the current ruling in Sony's favor, and is siding with Cox.

I can tell you that Mediacom cable will cut your service off for it, and you have to call in and get scolded before they turn it back on.

And, if it happens 3 times, your service is disconnected permanently.

Hell, windows itself does it.

Pretty sure I have read somewhere that it is now also an official necessity in Germany