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”.
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I hope my own because why pay for a VPN service when I already rent a VPS
How do you pay the VPS Provider? The Cops can simply go to the VPS Provider and ask what Bank account or paypal is linked to the Account who runs the Server with the IP address they tracked. And what if the VPS Provider is logging your traffic? They can Monitor anything that leaves your VPS (their network) because a VPS is just a Virtual Machine like KVM thats why its called VPS = VIRTUAL Private Server. OPSEC my friend… I think you are safer if you just use Mullvad and pay with XMR and only access the mullvad site from Tor. (I know i am paranoid xD)
With my credit card, I’m not worried about the police coming after me. Pirating is a civil issue not a criminal issue.
But how do you think they are running their VPNs? As we have seen from the past, Paid VPNs can track what you do any way. Just make sure you’re using HTTPS and you have setup your OS to encrypt your data and you’re fine. No one’s going through the effort to catch youre suspected of doing something serious enough.
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?
That’s because you’re in Canada. We don’t need to worry like Americans can. It’s not really necessary for us.
Same here. Started with IRC, then private trackers. Always force encryption. Zero issues. VPN is a waste of money for piracy.
I use Mullvad because I don’t need port forwarding. If you are using a VPN specifically for piracy I would use a seedbox, cheap ones aren’t that much more expensive.
Mullvad because they don’t need your name, and you can pay by cash anonymously.
Do they still not have port forwarding?
They also regularly have independent security audits
and their servers run everything on RAM meaning the second it loses power all data is lost.
Torguard is the best! $30 per year with my current plan and it’s reliable enough to play games.
Mullvad VPN, its pretty good and is a flat fee per month. It works good with Linux Mint.
Currently proton its decent though I’m thinking of moving to mullvad even though they’ve removed portforwarding.
I did this and found it worked way better in terms of stability. Bonus is that Mullvad has a proper Linux client whereas Proton’s is just a cobbled-together mess that’s not worth using and is no where close to feature parity with the Windows client
AirVPN because of port forwarding.
Mullavad
Proton VPN since it’s cheaper than ExpressVPN but apparently faster than other paid VPN options, while also having port forwarding to improve torrent connectivity.
Proton VPN
Currently testing Windscribe because they had good offer for a yearly subscription and some interesting features like ad block (mostly useful for mobile). Their privacy level is sufficient for what I’m doing currently, but if I ever need I’ll just Mullvad.
I use IVPN and I’m very happy with them. They allow you to make an account without giving out your Email address, you just get a random-generated Account ID (Mullvad does the same btw). They also allow you to pay with Monero, an anonymous crypto currency. I used Mullvad before, Proton VPN and AirVPN are great options as well.
IVPN Looks really good, does it have port forwarding so you can torrent with it?
They recently removed it, I recommend AirVPN if you need port forwarding.
I use PIA because it was the cheapest on their 3.3 year plan, and it has a good node geographically close to me with port forwarding. I only use it for torrenting, so I don’t care if it’s a CIA Honeypot or whatever.
Mulllvad VPN on my Hardened Void Linux and GrapheneOS mainly to hide my real IP address plus I use NextDNS paid version too.
