Hi all.

I’ve pirated before, but on my own independent network. For reasons I won’t get into I’ve gone from living independently to living with roommates, and while I personally don’t have anything against piracy myself, my current concern is that because things are on a shared network, I don’t want them to get dinged by our ISP should I get caught in the act.

Beforehand, because it was my own network, my actions, my consequences to face in the rare circumstance that I do get caught (which hasn’t happened yet), everything was smooth sailing.However, even if the likelihood of this happening is low, I don’t want others facing consequences for my own actions.

What are some ways I can generally mitigate this issue? I mostly just pirate movies, and was curious if using streaming websites from FMHY or using SoulSeek would have the same risk as torrenting.

Edit: My region is Canada to help.

  • waxrhetorical@feddit.dkEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    For someone whose main focus isn’t networking, do you have a guide or similar I can read to catch up? I’m running my setup on a properly killswitched VPN, but having firewall rules that are only valid for the VPN seems like an interesting extra step.

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Id start here, or whatever equivalent guide your provider has.

      Essentially when you setup the firewall rules in pfsense you can specify a gateway in the advanced section of the rule.

      As far as NAT, you just setup NAT for that subnet/vlan to go out over the VPN’s outward IP instead of your own.

      Both are required steps to get it working AFAIK.