All those services block IPVanish and Proton. They want my data not my money.

How do you come to that conclusion from their blocking of commercial VPNs? Sure, of course they want your telemetry as well, but it’s mainly due to the copyright owners/distribution agreements.

Buying pirated DVDs is one example I assume?

Why would you ever want to rename the file though? The extra tags are useful, eg for when searching matching subtitles or remembering quality without needing to check ffprobe.

It’s a public static IP, no one else is on it except for me :)

Do they actually do that in the majority of cases, or just a few to scare people? Germany is really weird on IP law…

admitting that they might need to if they were forced to. That is extremely reasonable.

It’s not though? The reasonable result would be to simply shut down in that jurisdiction.

You can comply with the law whilst not having anything to provide the law. Such as Mullvad does.

You mean they got a shock letter that says “pay us, or we’ll take you to court”? Just throw that junk mail away.

My ISP uses CGNAT but I have a public static IP from them. 10+ years of heavy usage and not a single letter.

Without direct connection, PMS uses Plex Relays, which limit streams to like 320p.

There are many crawlers, and I’m confident at least a couple have tried to connect to your server (unless you have an IP firewall, or if you’ve changed Plex Media Sever’s default port, in which case significantly less likely).

I assume it’s not really about them watching content, but to avoid them exploiting any possible PMS bugs.

You are now not hosting publicly available links

That’s also the case with open trackers (without indexers), yet I’ve gotten shut down way too many times. But that made me wonder, does this project share metadata if someone else in the DHT swarm queries for an info_hash you have, or does it simply “leech”? Pretty cool project regardless.

This gets rid of any questionably legal gray area of using sites like Nyaa, etc for Torrent links

Except that now you’re asking the swarm for metadata behind a boatload of info_hashes? Unlikely anyone would care (though you’d be surprised how many DMCAs I get when just having a simple open tracker running, not even an indexet), but I don’t see it as being any less grey than using any existing sites.

Controversial take: TOR shouldn’t be used to download large amounts of pirates stuff.

Maybe only controversial amongst entitled filesharers (read: those who are simply too lazy or cheap to use something else). The Tor project has been recommending against this since even before 2010: https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/