[rokkitmensch]

Torrenting from your home connection is a fools mission. Shared infra in a friendly jurisdiction is less than a Netflix subscription, and comes with one-click web UIs for your favorite torrent client.

Clicking around in my providers web panel yesterday I discovered they went so far as to serve up my downloads directory over http behind basic auth so I can download things directly to my phone while on the go.

A little bit more secret sauce: I have a script that rsyncs everything from the downloads/kids dir into a folder the kids can access on the Linux machine plugged into the TVs (and idem for the adults dir for wifey and me).

It is always the year of Linux on the desktop if you're willing to make your family suffer! Freedom from the copyright subscription fascists etc...