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Got caught torrenting a decade ago by my ISP and haven’t since.
PIA for a vpn good enough to hop back in?
Lemme guess, Germany? Es ist verboten!
I've used PIA for over ten years with no issues.
Cool! Thanks you
PIA was bought out by Kape Technologies which has a sketchy history of running malicious man-in-the-middle ad-injection software for profit. Up to you if you think that's a dealbreaker or not, but I'd recommend using Mullvad instead.
They passed a third party audit of their No logs policy in June of 2022 so although Kape is a concern I’ve been keeping a close eye on it. Performance has still been great across my devices (iPad, iOS, windows, MacBook) and so until I see a change from my side or some more concerning news about it comes out I’ve been happy with it.
What happened when they caught you?
Very angry letter home threatening legal action that definitely pissed off my parents (I was in high school at the time)
Did not help that it was an adult movie that got me caught and this was apparent because the bastards included the movie title in the letter lmao
That's rough! I only received an email from my provider Telus telling me to stop torrenting, I didn't and I never received another email since. I don't use any VPN
That's rough!
Fucking hilarious now. Super not cool then lol
when i got caught like 15 years ago all they did was send a letter in the mail asking that delete the downloaded game as if they would have any way of knowing if i actually did or not lol. I had a vpn but didn’t know about binding it to the downloader
To be honest, I have been always using NordVPN, never had any issues with them. Torrenting like a beast 😂
Probably there are other, cheaper and better, VPNs.
How does that affect your speeds?
Seconding Nord, love it. If I happen to get slow speeds I just connect to a different location (only happens if im running double vpn, or obfuscated, sometimes they get slow- TOR vpn is super slow so i dont use that one. These are different categories of VPN inside of Nord if you are wondering).
IIRC, Nord is one of the few who keeps their data on RAM, meaning if an agency requests records, they unplug it to give to them, and the data is gone as soon as it's unplugged. If im wrong, let me know!
Nord sucks for privacy, free ProtonVPN might even be better...
Is mullvad still good?
I've been using PIA for torrenting for several years with no trouble.
Cool! Thanks you
Make sure there are no "leaks" once you get PIA set up. There are online torrent leak checkers.
I’ve been using PIA to get around various region locked streaming sites for awhile now
What do you mean “leaks” like apps on my Pc not using it?
You can bind your torrent client to only use the VPN connection. The default is that if there is a drop on the vpn, most torrent clients use any connection which means it would just use your normal connection and could leak your ip address.