or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I’m like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don’t want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don’t want to “sign up.”

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I’m not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that’s enough.

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    What’s more crazy is that the very ISPs that track all of our information and sell to the highest better are the same ones sending us letters and emails when we use torrents that they’ll shut off our services if we continue to pirate movies and music.

    Hypocrisy at its finest.

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      They have to break the law to make sure that you aren’t “breaking the law”.

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    You see, the paperclip maximizer is real. Only, it isn’t paperclips. We are being compressed into currency.

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    How do you get “good” private trackers man. Either they’re all empty or just seem impossible to get into

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      Open signups happen frequently but you have to be quick to catch them

      Opentrackers.org and r/opensignups (or r/trackersignups) are good to check once in a while

      MyAnonaMouse has open applications twice a week and the test is very easy

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      Depends on which tracker. In general though invites and you get invites by association with relevant groups. Sometimes open registration occurs (though rarely) an other times the trakcer may do interviews.

      It mostly comes down to time and patience.

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            It said stop torrenting or face a biiiig fine. I’ll try and follow the guides to avoid this but I’m still a bit paranoid. Maybe I was loooking for reassurance that vpn and private trackers are good enough.

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      Search the term “OpenSignups”
      They less elite one open usually during holidays like Easter Christmast, Black Friday and summer break.

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    You know what would be pretty baller? A VPN credit union kind of thing where people ask over the place have their IP substituted with anyone else’s in the network! Just join in with a certain minimum of bandwidth?