Is torrenting shit without a VPN dangerous?

depends what isp you, but they usually give warnings. try your luck & if you get a warning then try a vpn or some other method

the other way around you stupid faggot
connect to vpn with your router and your isp will only see the connection to that vpn. then you can use tor and only the vpn company will know

if you want movies just use a streaming site. there are tons of them.

no I wanna make it so that websites can't tell I'm using TOR. some websites block TOR ips

isn't that also illegal?

You can do both things desu. AirVPN supports this for sure. I am not sure about Mullvad tho.

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yes, technically. it's been getting more attention recently.

sounds like a slow connection

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Bought 5 year VPN for 60$. seems fine.

If the police asks the VPN company for your real name.
Doesn't the company force to give it? I'm in Europe.

Depends on the laws of your exit country, but nobody is going to bother dealing with cross-country legal shit over a petty piracy case

If you're doing serious crimes, yeah a VPN probably won't protect you

It depends man. Depends of the country you are in, depends of the policies of the VPN company etc.

Check the local laws on the matter, and check the companie's privacy policies. Call them or smth.

Maybe they will protect you if the police comes asking around, but perhaps they will give in if the police has a warrant. Don't know. Depends.

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I see, thank you.
It's just for torrenting. I live in France and it's fine even without VPN, but who knows.

Is windscribe a good VPN? I don't do anything malicious as is so buying a VPN is out of the question.

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Is it true my uni can tell I'm torrenting over a VPN? Pls respond, I am a complete brainlet for this stuff.

No they can't, they could maybe make an educated guess based on your bandwidth usage though

Are you using a VPN service provided by your university?

Unless it's licensed by Crunchyroll. Speaking from experience. They didn't rape me, tho, it was an actual personal appeal from CR saying please support the creators and that they are glad that I'm enjoying their content. Then TV Tokyo had a bit saying to cease at once.

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no. they have been caught doing fishy shit. use nordvpn

No, I plan on using Mullvad. Someone online said they might see what I'm doing with it, which is why I ask. The connection is wireless WPA2 PEAP if that matters.

your VPN would need a driver to work and uni probably has disabled admin rights, so it wouldn't work.

Question about VPN, if I connect to one, download an HBO show and in that same session check my bank and email, doesn't that pretty much give away who's using that connection?
Secondly, if a VPN provider says "we don't keep logs", how are you supposed to trust them? If a lawyer comes knocking on their door, why wouldn't they just sell their customer out?

I'm actually curious, do companies even go after people that torrent anymore? I know they go after people who host torrent sites and the like, but I haven't really heard of any company going after people who pirate recently aside from maybe sending a stern letter.

I guess it's just impractical and bad PR to try and sue some random dude out of millions when he can't afford it.

serious? how did they contact you? they found your IP, then...???
you can admit you are using VPN, but nodes are shared by everyone, so that show could have been downloaded by other customer

>it's illegal to download 1 and 0 in his country
Lmao @ your life

They still do the petty lawsuits in the US, and some shitty countries have 3 strikes laws that will get their internet cut off

If you connect to the internet through a connection that belongs to the university, then they will be able to see what you are doing online with or without a VPN service.
That is because all the VPN requests pass through the network like they would if they were any other packets.

Now, if the VPN service encrypts its connections, then you will be fine.

>serious? how did they contact you? they found your IP, then...???
Yeah, I wasn't using a vpn or anything. They contacted my isp, who forwarded the email to me.

make sure to use one with an https certificate to be sure

lmao, scary stuff.

Why is torrenting only ever associated with piracy?

sauce?

It's not only associated with piracy. It is used beyond piracy.
The reasons it is used mainly for online piracy is obvious. It makes things easier, and allows lots of people to download files. The more, the better.

I think what
says might be the truth, since I recall someone else saying torrenting was disabled here altogether. If that's the case, I don't really know how people watch films here, as all the big streaming services are really lacking in terms of variety in content.

For the second question, you really don't have a guarantee. The most you can go off of is that if a VPN was asked to provide data to the police and didn't give it. Some countries may have laws allowing companies to refuse to provide any information, but I dunno, I'm no law expert.

If they sell the customer out, generally this gets found out since they police have to reveal how they got the data in court which can harm the reputation of a VPN company.

how the fuck can you disable torrenting? torrenting is downloading files from other people. That would mean uni knew every single IP address of every single seeder. I would understand, if uni restricted internet only to specific server or webpage, but if browser is unrestricted torrenting should be too. Admin rights would mean you can't install torrenting program, but it could be possible installing it on USB drive and running it anyway.

doesn't "zero logs" mean they delete all their logs? The most interesting question I find is, how can they set up their connections in others countries and NOT keep logs. Each country has different laws, so I can't imagine random company setting up connection and simply saying "we don't keep logs bro." I guess zero log data centers have been working in Sweden.

why not download it from searchftps.net?
1) search "anonymous 2011"
2) order by size desc
3) ???
4) profit

Germany is infamous for shit like that.

It is, but no one is logging that unlike several companies which monitor torrent swarms.

Smart people can create smart programs that analyze traffic, recognize patterns and ban certain connections.

Same think happens with anti-DDOS software. You can't ban all requests, but you can analyze the network and ban shady connections.

Deep packet inspection, but obviously a VPN prevents this

>go out for vacation for two weeks, only person in the house is my dad
>come back
>internet locked by ISP for torrenting something
>check the notice
>someone torrented Transsexual Babysitters 27

make sure you make your family use VPNs Jow Forums, lest you find out dark secrets about them

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>you need VPN to use your expensive af Internet connection
>land of """"""""""""free and brave""""""""""""
The absolute state of Muttistan

kek

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I doubt uni is that sophisticated. I would understand big businesses taking privacy extra seriously, but universities? I don't know, maybe... He just has to buy or try free VPN and see, if it works.
I thought so too, not expert, but seems so. The only part I am bothered about is, how do VPN companies are able to run nodes in different countries unbothered by what's happening on them. Idk

That's a shitty one desu. It should be transsexual x girl for better taste.

fuck even russian companies "signed on anti piracy memorandum"
why china so wise and doesn't want their people to go full alcoholism without piracy?

True. Idk, maybe torrent-related packets are actually recognizable and therefore bannable. Not sure.

wait, how could they know what you were torrenting if it's encrypted?

>Now, if the VPN service encrypts its connections, then you will be fine.

just buy a fucking VPN or try a free one in uni and see, if works.

She's so cute :3

My dad wasn't using a VPN

he didn't use VPN, That was the whole point of the post. Use VPN so that at least your ISP doesn't know what you doing.

The severity of Russian laws is alleviated by the lack of obligation to fulfil them

No

and even if he did use VPN, that doesn't mean the VPN service will encrypt communications. They usually do, but it's not certain.

-Avoid torrents like the plague, direct download is much better
-If you torrent copyrighted shit, you better use a VPN or you will get a warning probably
-worst case scenario the MPAA sends you a legal notice asking for $3000 to not pursue legal action
-Try using snahp.it for finding megalinks. Highly recommend. Mega downloads faster than torrents anyway, usually

Or they subpoena the VPN into ratting you out by giving up their logs. Hello $3000 settlement, I hope the movie was worth it

>-If you torrent copyrighted shit, you better use a VPN or you will get a warning probably

Depends where you are and what are the laws there. I've probably downloaded 2TB of copyrighted material in the past 5 years, and nobody every gave me warning.

Only if
>youre very unlucky and get chosen for DMCA notices
>Your ISP seeks and blocks torrent protocols (very rare)
>Your ISP has restrictions in their EULA, monitors torrent traffic and suspends your activity (Spectrum)

Obviously your mileage may vary, but you only really get one or two warnings if you're lucky. And if you're lucky you'll even get a warning at all. Major publishers sometimes send legal notices asking you to settle out of court.

My bro got a notice for some obscure ass anime (that was airing on TV at the time) and I got a notice for a 10 year old pokemon game once.

I wonder if those "pay $3000 for a out of court settlement" is just a scare tactic or if the company actually has the balls to go through with it. I think they'd lose more money than they'd gain unless the dude they're hitting is pretty well off.

They used to go to court before 2008, when people still pirated music with Napster and cassettes. It didn't go very well.

Depends on your shithole.
I definitely wouldn't torrent without VPN in Germany. But I would torrent without any VPN in latin shitholes, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Czech republic...

this could be the weak link, but also damaging for company. Better than nothing anyways.

Fuck DMCA faggots, don't download shit, and don't buy shit. Jews must die poor.

>direct download is much better
may I ask why? I use only magnets these days, it's same as torrent though, right?

>It didn't go very well.
for who? not versed in US cases

Isn't this exactly why you're always supposed to use a non-14 eyes VPN?

Only if you're in the US

Bittorrent is entirely P2P and requires you to upload. Downloading shit wont get you busted, uploading does.

By using a direct download you get
-Reliable hosts (compared to dead torrents)
-No need to upload (saves your ass)
-Serial downloading (so you can watch the movie as it downloads)

Is there a difference between using a VPN Browser Extension and a VPN Application? Does pic related occur either way?

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Germany is better known for prosecuting for piracy like mad hounds. But they got the right to, even poor there are more well off than rich in most countries in the world, there is not real reason to pirate in germany. There is plenty of reason to pirate say in brazil,china, russia and even US. With all US dazzle they still got poor people that do not like to go on drugs, better torrent movies than live on meth I think.

uhh, the browser extension will only affect your browser. It wont be system wide.

I guess, sux...

you will get dmca notifications in your email if you torrent without a vpn using public torrents

here is one i received.

nothing will happen if you get a few of them but if you keep doing it your isp might shut your internet off

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this is so inconvenient
for example I download anime season(quarter) as a whole, vuze sorts folders by series for me if i'd go by browser I would need download it by hand, that's about 350-400 episodes per quarter, I'll go insane

do they filter IPs by ISP/country and then send batch emails to ISP?

also do they have to download it themselves to track connected IPs?

No one has ever received a warning for torrenting in Italy.

Neither in Romania.

What anime? Ill see if I can find an example equivalent DDL

I once downloaded lots of porn off of Pirate Bay and the worst I got was my ISP forwarding me C&D notices from some California lawyer's firm, though I was scared for months that they'd bust my door down, would recommend a VPN

4 the companies :]

naw, they find out your isp and send dmcas to your isp
your isp notifies you that they have received dmcas and warns you to stop otherwise they will shut off your internet off if they keep on receiving them

i have received 50 of them before i realized i was getting them. a lot of isps will not shut off your internet because they want your money.

i got them by download rarbg rips from rarbg.to.
those are traps

I never had this problem, downloaded copyrigthed stuff and never got caught
Is it actually dangerous to torrent stuff? Won't you be safe if you use a client that forces encryption like transmission?

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