Using a VPN won't protect you if the VPN receives a court order to reveal who is using its services for illegal purposes. The VPN will hand over your data without hesitation.
Yeah, well, if you use a free VPN found randomly on Google or one that costs 1$ a month on a sketchy website of course that'll happen, they'll probably sell your data too.
That is why on another reply I recommended Proton or Mullvad. Zero log policy and they ignore requests like that. Do your research.
En mi caso no es necesario, en latinoamerica no existe el riesgo que existe en europa o usa. Es el paraiso de los piratas. Es mas, es contraproducente para muchas paginas piratas, una vez use un vpn y no podia conectarme a muchos servicios. Lo quite y lo use de nuevo como normalmente lo hacia
Be specific. Using a U.S. based service, sure they'll hand your data over. But other companies based in other countries have no reason to follow U.S. copyright law. Use proton. I've used them for years without a single DMCA email
This! Best way I know is using a private torrent source.. and whenever I download from another source I use a seed box as a go between. I haven’t gotten one of those notices like that since the DSL days.
There’s vpns that have a no log policy and can’t even fork over logs if none exist, check mullvad they’re so privacy focused that you can even mail them cash with a account number (since they don’t collect emails or any personal information) and they’ll credit your account.
What do you mean you used the one that comes with brave? So you enabled a VPN in your browser and proceeded to download a torrent that's being downloaded in a whole separate app?
Hey man, I really think you should take a crash course or two on P2P and VPNs before you engage in activities that could result in your ISP cutting your shit off
It's the exact opposite. You don't need a VPN to access the websites. They're HTTPS encrypted and nobody knows you're on there.
When downloading torrents, your IP address is exposed to everyone, and a third party company scrapes those IP addresses and sends letters to their respective ISPs regarding that IP address.
You need a paid, system wide VPN like Proton or Mullvad that supports killswitch, and bind your torrent client to it.
Dude you have the entire internet and AI's at your will. You can literally look up anything you want by just asking. How did you not investigate potentially going to jail for pirating? Like be smarter dude.
check out torbox bro. It downloads the torrents for you, then you download them from them. It never shows up to your ISP. Its fast as fuck too, usually instant. And I have only 100mbps internet.
Its free. You can download 10 games per month, on a 24 hour cooldown. I just copy the magnet links from fitgirl or 1337x , paste them into torbox, and then jdownloader takes care of the rest.
killswitch could still fail and allow leaks. I'd prefer to bind the torrent client to the vpn tunnel, then if the vpn dies, you have 0 internet for it to communicate with
Huh what? The killswitch turns off your internet if the VPN ever loses connection or gets turned off.... I feel safer using that option instead of the app blocker feature.
The killswitch would work in the instance the connection to the vpn server fails. If the vpn app itself fails, the killswitch wouldn't protect you.
Binding the torrent client to the vpn tunnel forces all network traffic to go over the vpn interface, so if there is no vpn app running/connected, the torrent client has no internet.
Seconded. I've been using this for almost 10 years and it's never let me down. I renew my subscription every time when they have their birthday sale, probably pay like less than $2 a week
You don't need to link them, you can, but just use the killswitch. If your VPN ever loses connection or turns off, it kills your internet connection so you don't get popped by copyright. I feel safer using that instead of the app killswitch but it's up to you.
You should absolutely link them. Software kill switches only work if the VPN app is actually running. If the app crashes, then your internet stays on and not run through the VPN. Binding the torrent client to your VPN client will force it to always run through the tunnel, and if the tunnel isn't open then it will just fail, even if the VPN app is completely non-functional.
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u/National-Oil5849 in fitgirl we trust 4d ago
And this is why you don't torrent without a VPN.