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Pirate everything laws are a spook
(Use a VPN)
I dont really have the money to spend on the things i want epecially mounthly things and ive never had a job before and i still dont becasue im trying to get thru school and such. so is there something else that i can do and stay safe while doing so>
Really the only safe, cheap and sustainable way nowadays is to use docker + gluetun + mullvad VPN (or your preferred VPN.
VPNs are cheap and they're worth it.
Haven't used docker myself yet but keep seeing it talked about with servers, am I right in that if you have a working configuration if docker gluetun (with a vpn) you could share some sort of file that would let others setup theirs in the same way semiautomatically?
Yeah that's correct. It's called docker compose. Everything is declarative and it can be stood up and torn down with a single command.
When I was setting myself up I referenced this project quite a bit:
https://github.com/DoTheEvo/selfhosted-apps-docker
You can pick and choose the parts you want.
Mullvad is dropping support for port forwarding as of July 1st (a lack of which cripples torrenting), so this actually no longer a good option. I'm miffed about it since I just set it all up a couple weeks ago. I haven't done my research to see if there are any trustworthy VPN providers left which offer port forwarding.
A good VPN is five bucks a month. Certainly cheaper than any legal method of acquiring media, except 480i library DVDs.
You might find this gem of a video from Jeff Geerling to be helpful/informative:
https://youtu.be/4VkY1vTpCJY