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Is a VPN necessary for torrenting?

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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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xenos@kbin.social
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+1 for Mullvad! They were raided with a search warrant by Swedish Police who ended up leaving empty handed because the customer data they wanted simply does not exist

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KingPyrox@kbin.social
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How’s the speed on Mullvad? I have gigabit currently and don’t really want to compromise the speed of my connection

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Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Incredibly good. You will probably lose like 100mbps compared to without, at 1gbps.

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