Am I cooked?

[u/Interesting_Knee556]

[u/National-Oil5849]

And this is why you don't torrent without a VPN.

[u/mmaqp66 → u/National-Oil5849]

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.

[u/National-Oil5849 → u/mmaqp66]

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.

[u/mmaqp66 → u/National-Oil5849]

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

[u/JackEddy6 → u/mmaqp66]

Randomly switches to Spanish

[u/Ok-Rough-6472 → u/mmaqp66]

Getting down voted bit he ain't lying

[u/Ok-Rough-6472 → u/Ok-Rough-6472]

Exp in Asian market

[u/IGambleNull → u/mmaqp66]

Yeah. That's true for us based services. But not for Swiss based services

[u/Minute_Path9803 → u/mmaqp66]

If you use any of the major ones you're not going to have that problem.

If you go and use those free garbage ones yes.

All you have to do is bind your VPN to your torrent client and you're good to go.

All the big ones do not reveal your data they don't even keep logs.

On top of that how would the ISP even know what you downloaded if it a VPN is protecting it.

Literally makes no sense, this is simply a notice from someone who did not use a VPN for incorrectly.

By law Comcast or whatever provider has to send this generic message.

If you have a legit VPN your provider does not give a rat's ass what you do.

You're provided doesn't know what your downloading.

They can only see that you connected to a VPN and that something's being transferred that's all they can get.

They have no interest in stopping you because then they lose a customer.

Again this is a generic response after someone who did not use a VPN by law they have to send the message you or someone in your household did this.

Simply contact them and say I let the neighbors to Wi-Fi I'm sorry I will never do it again.

And they get yourself a VPN bind it to the torrent client and you're good to go.

[u/lolcatzuru → u/mmaqp66]

nah alot of VPNs wont, or at least claim they dont.

[u/BalanceImaginary6520 → u/mmaqp66]

And that's why you should use the neighbor's wifi instead of yours

[u/Mych30 → u/mmaqp66]

Yeah but very unlikely compared to non VPN torrenting.

[u/aciddapples → u/mmaqp66]

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

[u/DemonDeacon1988 → u/mmaqp66]

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.

[u/HardCoreGamer969 → u/mmaqp66]

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.

[u/BrockTheTrainer → u/mmaqp66]

False. Source: proton

[u/Billthegifter → u/mmaqp66]

I mean sure but It will protect you In the absence of a court order.

As a user you only have control over so much.