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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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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month 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

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month 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