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?

  • Fell@ma.fellr.net
    17·
    2 年前

    @Alextheacceptable In Germany, there are lawyers specialised on torrents. They collect German IPs from the peers list and mass-sue them over distributing copyrighted material. They always ask for a settlement payment of more than 5000€. It can usually be escaped by taking it to court, but I recommend not going through that.

    So, depends on your location. Over here, download one movie without a VPN and you have a shit ton of legal crap coming your way.

    • Fell@ma.fellr.net
      3·
      2 年前

      Makes me think… if you exclusively use IPv6 you might be fine because they can’t geolocate you that easily 🤔

      • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 年前

        Would that really matter, though? Afaik, they could still just… ask your ISP who that IP was assigned to, which is what they’re going to do with IPv4 anyways.

        • Fell@ma.fellr.net
          1·
          2 年前

          @SolOrion They don’t deal with ISPs outside the country, because they can’t sue them at a German court.

          So they need to know it’s a German ISP beforehand so they can request personal information accordingly. But maybe they could still figure it out from IPv6 address ranges… I’m not entirely sure.