There seems to be a sub-group of salty dogs that sail without protection. They are often US saying they get lots of letters from ISP but nothing comes of it, lately. I’m one to hedge on the side of caution and will be continuing to use VPN but just wondering how much this is just a loud minority and how much truth is to it?
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Plenty of people have unprotected sex. That doesn’t stop a portion from getting AIDs. I can give you plenty of stories of people downloading a hot (monitored) torrent and then paying thousands of dollars in legal fees after ignoring the notice.
Get a VPN, or a Debrid service if you are strapped for cash. Why roll the dice when you don’t have to?
Thank you for the link. I literally hadn’t seen anything of people being prosecuted since the mid-2010s so that was very informative. Outside of the NSFW category of torrents has any game or tv series led to indictments?
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Why would you want to rawdog the internet?
I want to feel every 0 + 1, maybe even a 2.
I mean, a VPN protects you from a lot more than just copyright trolls. Even if you’re not sailing the high seas, it’s better to have one than not.
people fuck strangers without condoms
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I only use a vpn on public trackers, on private trackers I don’t use a vpn.
But generally if you don’t live in a third world country you should almost always use a vpn. I live in Germany and luckily my ISP doesn’t care about torrenting.
OP here living on the edge.
I usually only download through my seedbox located in NL.
Luckily a VPN connection is included with my seedbox and recently had a reason to use it for torrenting from a private page.What ISP are you using?
My current ISP is VSE, Innogy highspeed, E.on Highspeed or whatever name they’ll be using next. They change their name every few months or so
Innogy highspeed (…)
Sadly they do CG-NAT which is a dealbreaker for me :/
They offer a dedicated IP for around 1 Euro per month. Recently I noticed they also enabled IPv6 natively
Still stuck with someone not willing to go >50mbit/s at home. I will try to keep them in mind once it comes to it ;)
Thank you!
I torrented the vast majority of my growing 28tb library without a vpn over the last 7ish years.
This year alone, I’ve received 45 email notices from my ISP forwarding copyright claims to me. Neither the ISP nor any claimants have taken further action and the content in the claim(s) has always finished seeding and been removed from the torrent client by the time I’ve received the notice. (the notice specifies a particular torrent title/filename)
Despite not yet having legal issues or service interruptions; I have just recently decided to switch from torrenting to usenet via Frugal Usenet+NZBGeek (usenet provider+indexer). Better availability (In 2 days, I grabbed 2.8tb of content I hadn’t been able to find via torrents and 15+ indexers), continuous 70+mbps downloads, and no need for a vpn while also not receiving anymore copyright claims for only about $6/month.
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VPN without a doubt.
I once received a secure message from my isp after downloading a certain film. I’ve been pretty paranoid ever since.
I’d always use a VPN, you never know what could happen in the future. Better be safe than sorry!
Instead of spending money on a vpn and it might not work with port forwarding and me having to make sure my uptime is working I decided to spent the cash on a seedbox instead.
Any issue? Open a ticket with support and be done. No need to make yourself crazy why something is not working as it did 2min ago.BUT it’s more expensive than hosting a seedbox.
I’ve been torrenting for almost 20 years and no one cares here where I live. I got VPN few months ago anyway, paying 5€/mo and I sleep better. The problem is I had to change provider already (Mullvad -> AirVPN). Its not easy to find proper VPN with port forwarding and Im afraid there will be even less providers in the future. Maybe I’m wrong, but feels like I’ll have to ditch PF in near future.
I thought Mullvad had portforwarding?
Yeah it had, but not anymore…
It’s a minority.
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Afaik in Germany you could be held responsible for not securing and taking measures for unprotected gust networks. That’s why usually those places have easy passwords like “Passwort123” or “WartezeitBeimTermin”. Just to fend of the rogue bypassers
