It depends on your risk profile. On a private tracker it is much less likely that copyright trolls sit in the leech and log the ip of every peer, which is the main reason to use a vpn on public trackers. But it still increases your anonymity if you torrent over VPN.
And If your isp doesn’t allow port forwarding you could become connectable by using a VPN provider that provides that feature
With tinfoil and a good shop, updating switch rooms can be almost as convenient
coomer.su has an importer tool where you just need to provide your session key
The domain for their instance got seized. They don’t plan to host another public instance on a different domain but the development still continues you just need to spin up your own instance or use one someone else runs https://movie-web.github.io/docs/instances Edit: I think they still run the backend that can by anyone. You’ll just need to run your own fronted
Without private trackers the best way to get German content would probably be through Usenet. Scenenzbs.com would probably be the best indexer there.
Getting into some of the larger German private Torrent trackers isn’t that hard though.
It’s probably best to still use a VPN or seedbox. But the chance that you get some nice mail is much lower because much more effort is required by the lawfirm. In order to get the IP addresses of people seeding the torrent they would first need an account and would get banned pretty quickly by not seeding or just snatching hundreds of torrents and not downloading them
https://github.com/fnep/mtv_dl mtv_dl allows searching the Mediathekview database from the command line and download all videos that haven’t already been downloaded and that fit the search. I use it to download new episodes from TV shows that I’m interested in
what Usenet provider are you using? the ones I’ve found were much more expensive
In what way is Deezer support broken?