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Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven't gotten into proper #piracy is that I don't have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don't have a VPN is that I don't #torrent. So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while #degoogling myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don't hide what you're downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don't fully understand.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For movies and tv, there's nothing better than usenet. Eweka or easynews as your provider, with nzb.su, nzbgeek, or drunkenslug as your indexer and you'll never look back. Mix that with radarr/sonarr and it's the best way to download media. Any of the indexers will be like 20-40 buck for life, and eweka/easynews are bout $40 for the year. real-debrid comes out to about $30 per year. All those sites you see that have rapidgator links and stuff like that, real-debrid turns that into an instant download. You can even use it with jdownloader which makes some of the downloads with like 50 different rapidgator links really easy to download.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am fairly sure you still need a VPN when using these services. Is there an advantage to this over using torrents and streming piracy sites?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don’t need a vpn with these. Evidence gathered by wiretapping isn’t permissible in court. They need you to send them copyrighted material to sue. At least in the us

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah ok check with a lawyer then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I could afford one of them then I wouldn't be doing this