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Is a VPN necessary for torrenting? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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

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I don't live in the US, so my ISP doesn't really seem to care what I torrent, but the megathread vehemently recommends to always use one. Since VPNs aren't cheap and I'm on a strict budget (wouldn't pirate otherwise), is it really that dangerous to torrent without one?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I just have a Real-Debrid sub for like 3 euros a month and do any torrenting via them.

Also useful for streaming just about anything in Kodi, and for downloading from file hosts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you use real debrid to automatically grab torrents from a private tracker (maybe through autobrr)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This wont be good for your ratio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, do you mean using it in place of BitTorrent wouldn't be good? Does it not seed back?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It does not.