If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don’t find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don’t mention “free vpn”.

  • Metal Zealot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    So… at the risk of humiliating myself,
    I’ve never once used a VPN in my entire life.

    I pirated games, movies, shows, music, software… and the worst thing that happened to me was getting a letter from Telus once or twice saying “Hey. Don’t do that.”

    That was 5 years ago

    I know it’s bad practice. But is a VPN 100% necessary? Even a free one?

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      1 year ago

      That’s because you’re in Canada. We don’t need to worry like Americans can. It’s not really necessary for us.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Same here. Started with IRC, then private trackers. Always force encryption. Zero issues. VPN is a waste of money for piracy.