I've noticed many people promote VPNs for torrenting to evade legal troubles in some places. But I wonder how do VPN companies get away with legal complaints? Especially if their servers are located in Germany or Japan, where piracy is heavily penalized.

p.s. I have never used a VPN for piracy, and I have never received any DMCA emails.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    If you are just torrenting and using it for downloading some stuff and nothing more, use the cheapest as NordVPN or Cyber ghost these are good for this, BUT NOT FROM A PRIVACY POINT OF VIEW

    • ayaya@lemdro.id
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      1 month ago

      PIA is the best for torrents. It is $79 for 39 months which is $2.03/mo and they have port forwarding. That's less than half of pretty much every other provider.

      I have had 3 clients (one for a specific tracker, one for everything else, and an extra seedbox) going 24/7 for years with no problems. No complaints about the speeds either. I frequently saturate full gigabit on both downloads and uploads.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      Cyberghost is untrustable.

      • https://masjidalaqsa.com/boycott/cyberghost-vpn-israel-bds
      • https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape-technologies-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-parent-company-of-cyberghost-vpn/
      • https://www.reddit.com/r/Express_VPN/comments/pp6lwf/former_malware_distributor_kape_technologies_now/