I like using Deemix

Piracy is a service problem

I like using Jackett as a search engine across a ton of sites. I can usually always find what I’m looking for.

I really like airvpn.

I really enjoy having Plex as my media server. It’s about the same amount of hassle as Emby, and there’s also Jellyfin which I haven’t dabbled into yet.

I believe that information and knowledge should be free anyways (at least in a perfect world), because that leads to the betterment of society. Also if you are able to use the knowledge you learn from the things you pirate I think you’ll be able to come back and support those things that got you to where you are.

Yeah Private Trackers are typically protected from copyright notices.

Womp womp

Proton VPN, Airvpn, and Mullvad are all reputable. Proton and Air have port forwarding if that’s a requirement for you.

I’m pretty new to torrenting as well. To answer your questions based on the personal research I’ve done.

1. You absolutely require a VPN. Definitely a paid one. The free ones are not of good quality and a lot of them are more than likely to be detrimental to your privacy. Also P2P is not a requirement for torrenting. All it does is it enables you to make more connections in the swarm and making the torrent download faster. Some good recommendations of VPN’s with port forwarding I’ve seen thrown around are Proton VPN, Airvpn. Options without port forwarding are Mullvad, or IVPN.

2. I’ve been using 1337x for movies and TV shows and it’s been great. I’ve also heard Torrent Galaxy is good as well. As always though be really careful with what you download no matter what. Always run a scan on files you download.

3. Qbittorrent is the best.