I used to torrent things back in highschool until Comcast sent my parents a couple emails, one from torrenting Fable another from Jay-Z's American Gangster (which I still love to this day). So I get how it works and what I need.
But I just got a VPN and now I'm ready to get back into it. Before I was on a Mac and I used Transmission. Is that still a good client to use on Windows? Or are there other ones I should use instead? Is 🏴☠️bay a safe place for magnets, or somewhere else? My computer sucks so I won't be going after new games, just older ones and some shows that aren't streaming but I want to checkout.
And am I really that safe using a VPN? Like untraceable, no emails or letters from my ISP for downloading shit?
now that you got vpn youre good. Not that those letters mean anything. Ive proudly collected hundreds if not thousands of them in my comcast email before I got a vpn for other reasons. ISP has to "warn" you but they dont give a shit and theyre not gonna lose money if they dont have to. Big studios will try taking them down from sites but they dont even make examples out of people anymore like the early 2000s. They know as well as we do that piracy increases their sales and they have no desire to stop that unless everyone started doing it.
I'd be careful publically posting that specific ISPs don't care. It can bite you in the ass years down the line
In the US, most of the biggest IP holders are also among the biggest ISPs. They may not do the show trials any more, but only because they don't have to.