do i really need a VPN to torrent? ive been doing this for over 10 years now from movies to games and its not like i got spam mailed or anything, is there really a threat to not using a vpn?
I never used a VPN for torrenting. But I never download new slop, only old stuff nobody cares about
>>108507685Depends on who your ISP is and where you live.When I had spectrum those nigger faggots were all over me for torrenting anything.Att doesn't care as much and it seems the only torrents that got me dinged for infringement notices were anything by paramount. I solved this problem by paying for a seedbox and realdebrid. Best part is the seedbox comes with a free VPN.
>>108507685Depends on the laws in your country, your internet provider etc. I've been pirating since 2002 when I bought my first pc, pretty much daily since then. Never used a VPN or any sort of protection. Never had any issues.
>>108507698>>108507706gotchu gotchu but what countries are fucked when you try to torrent to the point where you really need a vpn?
>>108507685Im in Australia and never had a problem. I know people in the US that have though
>>108507685Gov doesn't care about you downloading animu and touhou
>>108507736japan and germany are the wurst
>>108507736Any country where they give a shit about copyright. A good rule of thumb is that if your gov doesn't bother to take down DDL sites, they're not gonna bother to track down some dude torrenting
>>108507736Some of my friends in Germany and Finland have had issues with angry letters but that's all I know. Here in Sweden it's not a thing, pirating is pretty much part of culture here. Even have a pirate party in government.
I wonder... does this mean ISPs don't have to provide IP addresses when asked by copyright holders? If so, then it seems you could torrent all you want without a VPN. If they still provide IP addresses, then I'd say you need a VPN.
>>108507959What about spotify? Heard they scared off Anna's Archive people into taking down their metadata torrent. Not even music, just metadata.Got it btw, can seed.
>>108507685It depends on where you live. If you're in some shithole american state your ISP will send you a letter threatening to cut your service if you torrent. Same in some European nanny states like Germany.Everywhere else you should probably be fine.
>>108508023Sweden only cares about the big fish aka the people who run the sites/uploads giant amounts for distribution. They never go for the average Sven downloading stuff because it doesn't solve anything.
>>108508014They don't HAVE to, but they probably continue doing it. Some of them actually own record labels and movie studios.
>>108507959>Here in Sweden it's not a thing, pirating is pretty much part of culture here.tf i lov swedo now.>>108508029pretty much, most governments dont care about copyright.
>>108508023Anna's Archive made an announcement that they scraped 99.9% of Spotify and area about to release it, that's a really big deal, and that's why they got bullied into shutting the fuck up about releasing ANYTHING. Metadata or otherwise.
>>108508048Just Sweden things. Sorry for the AI slop but I'm tired.
>>108507685no comrade, you don't need a vpn. people with a functional government still do though.
>>108507736Germany has been anal against piracy from what I heard. US used to be a bit anal but now the consequences are limited to ISP blocking
If you live in the US you should. Spectrum were faggots about it in my experience
>>108507698Lol spectrum was all bark and no bite, I got like 20 letters from them threatening to drop my service if I didn't cease torrenting copyright protected media and they never did shit. They don't want to drop you from their service because that would result in them losing money.
for me its airvpn
