HOW TO PIRATE COPYRIGHTED FILES

It’s never been easier to access music, movies, and TV shows from the comfort of our homes, but all that convenience comes at a cost. Streaming subscription services can get hella expensive, hella quick. Luckily, the dark, seedy underbelly of the Internet has no respect for copyright laws.

BITTORRENT IS YOUR FRIEND
Pioneers of peer-to-peer file sharing like Napster, Kazaa, and LimeWire blew the doors off the music and film industries, but they were just the beginning. In their wake, the BitTorrent protocol has emerged as the most efficient and popular way to share content.
Instead of downloading a whole file directly from another user, BitTorrent users download a torrent file containing information on the file’s location. When the torrent is opened with special software, the file is downloaded in pieces from numerous other users who have already downloaded it (or are in the process of doing so). This allows for incredibly fast transfer speeds, making it possible to download entire movies in a matter of minutes or even seconds.

INVEST IN A VPN
Unless you’re downloading and sharing content that’s already in the public domain, you’re breaking the law by downloading copyrighted content. And copyright owners are constantly monitoring torrent files to issue copyright infringement claims.
The surest way to protect yourself is to mask your IP address using a virtual private network (VPN). The VPN acts as a go-between and funnels all of your Internet traffic through a server that’s located far, far away from you. There are a number of free VPN services, but do yourself a favor and invest the $10 a month for a paid one that offers unlimited bandwidth. (Proton VPN) - my recommendation

GO ANALOG
As the cat-and-mouse game between pirates and copyright holders escalates, the risk of fines and jail time is too much for some people to stomach. In order to minimize those risks, some pirates are going old school and managing their file-sharing locally.
USB flash drives containing pirated material can be anonymously hidden out in the real world and their GPS coordinates shared with other pirates to find, copy the contents to their own local drives, and then return them to where they were found. In 2015, AT&T estimated that as much as 20 percent of all Internet traffic was a result of file transfers using the BitTorrent protocol.

Source: Forbidden Knowledge