Let’s not turn this into what the Reddit subreddit of Piracy has turned into and that’s an endless sea of questions that are all the same - “Do I need a VPN?”.
And the loud and vocal answer to such a question is - yes. Yes you do need a VPN for pirating. Nobody gets a VPN for casual use and I’m under the impression that VPN services know a lot of people are going to be going to them for pirating and not just accessing content out of their country. And it’s for that reason, is why I’m skeptical on entrusting my activity with the bigger VPN names available.
I use ProtonVPN myself, by the way.
Pirating under your raw IP address, only will set you up to get pegged by your ISP whether it’s in a short time or a long time. I’ve only ever gotten one single ISP letter in my entire 26 years of pirating and it was simply because I downloaded without a VPN. Well I was also downloading off of someone else’s network to take the fall, but I was confronted about it either way.
And I’ve gotten away with so much pirating because of my careful cautiousness when it comes to pirating. That and this applies to the United States, but the statue of limitations is 3 years when it comes to copyright infringement. So, good fucking luck to any ISP or so that wishes to try and nail me for something I downloaded 10 years ago, but I digress.
But a large part of me avoiding so much does contribute to having a VPN. So, yes, VPN is required. Please don’t ask anybody in the pirating community 100 questions that are all just ways to ask whether or not you need a VPN. You do.
To be honest, I never really wanted to pirate. I just wanted access to something that was reasonably priced. I’ve actually started reading more and barely watch any TV. The type of material that’s available is either propaganda or poorly made nonsense. Video games are absolutely horrendous nowadays. And I just don’t need it anymore. At this moment in my life, after being a pirate for most of my adult life I really just use of VPN to bypass government censorship so I can get material I need to make sense of the world. Capitalism is really the problem because everything’s an ad, everything’s been commodified, including the natural world. VPNs are just another tool in the tool belt. Piracy, especially nowadays, since everything’s garbage is very much just a thing for children or idiots. It’s kind of a freeing feeling when you don’t want any of the garbage they be chucking out. I’m pretty much against imperialism and capitalism. So I see the world differently. I see us all inside of a container, kind of like an open air prison. So bread and circus is not worth stealing. I absolutely love all Linux projects and I spend most of my time learning about Linux. I feel we need to teach our kids not to be cucks and open themselves up to criminal action via corporations. For what they are stealing doesn’t keep them fed and it just rots the mind and creates an empty head. There is no war but the class war. Quit fucking around. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye_(Murch_book)