How is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update?

FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 days ago

How is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update?

metaStatic@kbin.earth · 2 days ago

we ran out of IPv4 addresses quite some time ago. the likelihood of being on a carrier grade NAT is pretty high.

and if you’re lucky enough to have access a direct IPv4 address (also a premium feature and priced as such) your ISP can still be blocking certain ports.

and on top of all that what @[email protected] said

ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org · 2 days ago

your ISP can still be blocking certain ports

that’s no problem here because bittorrent can run on any port. qbittorrent randomizes it at install