How do VPN companies get away with DMCA? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by haroldfinch@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've noticed many people promote VPNs for torrenting to evade legal troubles in some places. But I wonder how do VPN companies get away with legal complaints? Especially if their servers are located in Germany or Japan, where piracy is heavily penalized.

p.s. I have never used a VPN for piracy, and I have never received any DMCA emails.

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[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

If you are just torrenting and using it for downloading some stuff and nothing more, use the cheapest as NordVPN or Cyber ghost these are good for this, BUT NOT FROM A PRIVACY POINT OF VIEW

[-] ayaya@lemdro.id 15 points 2 months ago

PIA is the best for torrents. It is $79 for 39 months which is $2.03/mo and they have port forwarding. That's less than half of pretty much every other provider.

I have had 3 clients (one for a specific tracker, one for everything else, and an extra seedbox) going 24/7 for years with no problems. No complaints about the speeds either. I frequently saturate full gigabit on both downloads and uploads.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have 4 seed boxes I run on pia. My only issue is that the port changes from time to time. I have to check on them every week or so. It's also one of the only court tested Vpns, though it did change hands after that

Edit: Turns out the pia client has a bash accessible command to get the active port. And Qbittorrent has a curl-able target to set the value. One bash script and a crontab... and now I don't ever have to deal with the port changes anymore. You're welcome leechers!

[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

This seems to be great as it should works

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cyberghost is untrustable.

[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

For sure NordVPN too, but in the ONLY case of torrenting it's a good idea to have the cheapest thing to hide his ip

[-] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

thanks for sharing

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Just use mullvad. Pay for it with Monero if you're super paranoid.

[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I'm completely okay with that but you can find cheaper alternatives if you just want to do torrenting stuff, do not need this extra level of privacy

[-] bier 2 points 2 months ago

Mullvad semi recently closed it's port forwarding service. Afaik AirVpn is (one of) the only ones remaining that allows you to expose ports through there service