Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn't care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you're paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA's in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Does port forwarding really matter if you have symmetrical fiber?

[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Port forwarding allows a connection to reach your fiber in the first place.

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Does port forwarding really matter if you have a Holborn 9100?

Does port forwarding really matter if you have Hannah Montana Linux?

Does port forwarding really matter if you have a Dawson's Creek trapper keeper?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

why is port forwarding a premium feature? isn't it just a setting on your router

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Bc $$$.

My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.

You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 1 points 3 months ago

There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called "CGNAT". Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.