Do I really need a VPN for pirating? (feddit.nl)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by VitabytesDev@feddit.nl to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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OK, so, I have a couple of questions:

What's the worst that can happen if I don't use a VPN while pirating?
Are free tier VPNs (like Proton VPN) good enough?
I don't want to pay much or anything for a VPN, is a way I can get a good free one, or set one myself somehow (I have experience with selfhosting) ?
If not, which cheap one do you recommend?

EDIT: I pirate mostly movies, and rarely some TV series.

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[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 12 points 5 months ago

Depends highly on your country. Generally, for file sharing (peer 2 peer such as torrents), yes. For regular downloads & streaming sites, not so much, just a fully subscribed adblocker and a bit of brain juice. Although there had been some cases of peer 2 peer streaming in the past, but I think that was via flash players. I don't know if that's still a thing anywhere and if it is, I think it would not make it into the megathread (I hope).