@harry76 For your ISP, it becomes more of a legal protection. No ISP wants to be known as the ISP that allows copyright infringement on their network. In the case of a user who gets a multitude of requests, this obviously increases the risk that the copyright troll can start litigation against the provider for allowing such activity on their network. I personally do not use a VPN when logging into the site just to browse or use the forums, however on the machine that I use for the actual torrent traffic, I absolutely use a VPN. I know that in the DPI state of Canada, my ISP can most definitely see what I'm doing behind the VPN, however it is not my ISP I am worried about. It's more of a protection so that nothing attaches my actual IP address to any torrent traffic so that my actual IP address does not appear in the peers pool. This way, my ISP can most definitely still see what I'm doing, but potential copyright trolls cannot tie my identity to any specific torrent. The other added benefit of using a VPN is that if I do hit on a torrent that is being monitored by copyright trolls, they'll have to approach my VPN provider for further information, however my VPN provider has a strict no logging policy, so they are not able to disclose information that they do not actually have. This saves me from having my ISP account tied to any of the torrents I may have active at any given time, which both protects me from being tied to the torrent, and also stops my ISP from receiving any potential notice. It is generally assumed that although in a DPI state such as Canada that the big players to the market can see what kind of traffic you have going even through the VPN, they typically do not give a damn what you're actually doing, as long as they don't have copyright holders knocking on their door with infringement claims. That said, depending on where you are in the world, it may be a wise idea to use the VPN even when logging into the site, just to make sure that even the sites themselves cannot tie your actual IP address to your account. This is particularly helpful if the security of the site or its staff are compromised somehow. A person may be able to tie the VPN IP to different torrents, and may even be able to tie your VPN IP to your account, but if they are not able to sniff out your actual IP address, then the link they need to get your subscriber information is missing, thereby making the VPN IP address a dead end (assuming that your VPN provider has a no logging policy).

@Kevin4fm No, they were in fact being displayed. The privacy options used to work exactly like their description suggests. I only brought it up in this conversation because I didn't notice it had changed. But I'm 200% sure it was showing uploader names, I'm glad it was revised.

@cp2000 Not only do copyright holders have accounts here, so they're able to see the forums just the same as other users, but there's another problem still... ANY content published on the internet can be subjected to a subpoena, meaning even if the forum were not visible to the public in any way without a membership, its contents can still be accessed through the legal system. So regardless of whether or not it is private, your point is invalid. Private or not, copyright holders still have any number of ways of accessing the content for their purposes.

@idumy i answered you in the forum PM

@idumy https://x.com/evanpitcher

I'm not sure how the restriction works on the new system, but I know on the old system, you were only able to send messages to staff for the first 6 months of membership, but once you reached the 6 month mark, you could message anyone on the site whose privacy settings allowed for PMs. The reason for this was because we had issues with spam bots somehow getting through the system and mass PM'ing spam to just about everyone on the site. The restriction became a necessary evil in order to stop this kind of spam bot abuse. I'll have to look into the details of the restrictions on the new system, but I would be very surprised if the reason for the restriction isn't still the same.

@MrMazda It took me ages to work this out, driven mainly by wanting to know why I couldn't snatch torrents with one or two seeders no matter how long I connect to them, and noticing people waiting indefinitely to leech torrents I'm the sole seeder of. I have a feeling it's something not that many people are aware of. I was going to post an explanation, and kinda one-off workaround guide here, until a long discussion with my AI friend taught me that there are a couple of other "must have" factors which complicate things further. For the time being, I've stepped away from the idea, at least until my head is no longer at risk of exploding! Just a thought: Since the ability to port forward is so integral, and there are few VPN providers who allow this, might it be worth the site listing somewhere a few of those that do, perhaps with more in depth "this is the advantage of this one" info? I'm sure some are likely to offer "refer-a-friend" or "associate" type financial rewards, so this might generate a small income stream to help defray the costs of providing and maintaining this site.

@roygbivosu Goodness sometimes im so glad im a memeber of this forum what a beautiful boy... thanks for answering.

@kahrun tysm!

@idumy said: @ianfontinell but can you answer the question? is this possible? I don't really know mate, maybe? You should ask Joker, send him a dm in the site (not the forum) wish your suggestions explaining the use case for each suggestion.

With them being down, are there other alternatives? I know there are g-t.net and ourgtn. Any others?

@ianfontinell Thanks!

That's the one thank you both! No idea what I called it, I can't find where I saved it. No matter thanks for helping me identify it.

@frostycab Yes, my bad. I read the thread title carelessly before I posted in it. If a mod could move all posts starting with my previous one to a new thread, that would preserve the information that's been shared here in its proper place. Edited: Never mind. Someone has already created a separate thread.

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