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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Depends what country you're in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I decided to not use a VPN, because I live in Greece and read online that, although piracy is illegal, no action is being taken for pirates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

In my country it is decriminalised unless you're doing it at a very large scale and charging money, so I'm home free.

My ISP does block most torrent trackers -- But changing DNS providers is enough to get around that.