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You need a VPN for everything when it comes to pirating. (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let's not turn this into what the Reddit subreddit of Piracy has turned into and that's an endless sea of questions that are all the same - "Do I need a VPN?".

And the loud and vocal answer to such a question is - yes. Yes you do need a VPN for pirating. Nobody gets a VPN for casual use and I'm under the impression that VPN services know a lot of people are going to be going to them for pirating and not just accessing content out of their country. And it's for that reason, is why I'm skeptical on entrusting my activity with the bigger VPN names available.

I use ProtonVPN myself, by the way.

Pirating under your raw IP address, only will set you up to get pegged by your ISP whether it's in a short time or a long time. I've only ever gotten one single ISP letter in my entire 26 years of pirating and it was simply because I downloaded without a VPN. Well I was also downloading off of someone else's network to take the fall, but I was confronted about it either way.

And I've gotten away with so much pirating because of my careful cautiousness when it comes to pirating. That and this applies to the United States, but the statue of limitations is 3 years when it comes to copyright infringement. So, good fucking luck to any ISP or so that wishes to try and nail me for something I downloaded 10 years ago, but I digress.

But a large part of me avoiding so much does contribute to having a VPN. So, yes, VPN is required. Please don't ask anybody in the pirating community 100 questions that are all just ways to ask whether or not you need a VPN. You do.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

OK some countries, ya I get it - I'm not in one of those countries so for my country, my view stands. Also you do keep some logs, else it wouldn't be possible to troubleshoot connection issues. Active VPN sessions, etc, who is connected to what IP, session duration, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

no we don't lol. There's no way for us to connect an account to any of the traffic on our nodes.

I applaud your mistrust though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. To think you need to sniff actual unencrypted traffic to deduce information and draw lines is ridiculous. You don't need to do that to incriminate someone, especially if there's other evidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

No not unencrypted traffic. Any traffic. If a subpoena comes in like "hey this IP did a piracy pls tell us who it was" there is no way for us to answer that. Any VPN that doesn't have that is a scam. Sadly, a lot of them are.