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Are VPNs still useful for privacy when torrenting? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reading https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html explains vulnerabilities to VPNs. I was aware of several of them, but some I wasn't.

Are VPNs still useful for torrenting?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends, largely on how motivated people are to identify you.

If you infrequently torrent a few games and movies, using a VPN will probably be enough to deter most of the law firms specializing in churning out copyright notices. They go for the low hanging fruit first, aka the users without a VPN.

If you on the other hand were to engage in torrenting highly illegal stuff, and were therefore to become a target of state law enforcement, you'd be in a whole different kind of trouble. A VPN would likely not be sufficient.