Torrenting without vpn

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If my isp does not care about piracy. but im afraid because my ip is shownn when torrenting. is it still safe to torrent without vpn since your IP Address is Public

Edit: I am pirating games becasue i am broke, don’t expect me to buy a VPN if I’m pirating games…

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While the ISP sends you the DMCA it’s not them that caught you. The copyright holder watches the IP’s on torrent trackers, uses a bot to send the DMCA to your ISP. They then use a bot to send you a threatening email. The only one that I’ve personally seen actually do something was Charter Spectrum. (They shut down their internet service until the customer called and promised on recording that all pirated copyright materials is off of the computer)

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Bro my country doesn’t give a f about piracy.
I never used vpn for piracy before
Bec it limits the download speed.
Only vpn I am paying is kaspersky vpn, which isn’t that fast.
I didn’t have a problem before except they are trying my E-mail address in every 2 hours(checking on authenticator)

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I would highly and I mean highly recommend not torrenting without a vpn. Even if your isp doesn’t care other people can see it so don’t do that.

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for 20 years i’ve used torrents and other p2p stuff and never have i ever used vpn

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First, what country are you in?

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Do direct downloads instead. Avoid torrents if no VPN. I personally think it defeats the purpose of piracy if you have to PAY for a VPN to be able to pirate. Might as well pay for the software.

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You can pirate without torrenting

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That’s why I have been using a cloud Torrent service since 2013 periods. It’s much easier to just directly download to my PC without any issues.

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Protect yourself and your ISP by getting a premium VPN.

ISP can’t tell you to get an VPN and you don’t want them to terminate your service.

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I have been torrenting my whole life without VPN. Nothing happend so far in 20 years.

I tried getting one many years ago but it absolutely shot my seeding to shit so I turned it off.

Anyone know of a VPN that doesn’t destroy my seeding?

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Depends on where you live. I’ve torrented around 300TB of stuff from 2002 until now without a VPN.

I’d have to work all my life just to pay for the stuff i’ve pirated.

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Direct download. It can be a little slower but it’s perfectly safe.

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What vpn do you guys use? And is it free or do I have to pay…

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does this matter in countries like El Salvador?

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Never even once have i used a vpn for downloading. Who cares? Probably upload and downloaded more than 2 petabyte at this point

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i’m from Iraq, i never use VPN

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dude…you sure?that’s not a good idea…

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In the US I’ve only been contacted by my ISP for pirating Nintendo but they’re known to be litigious and I wasn’t using VPN, it’s a very case by case thing because if you lived in Romania it wouldn’t matter but the US is a different story