How do VPN companies get away with DMCA? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by haroldfinch@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've noticed many people promote VPNs for torrenting to evade legal troubles in some places. But I wonder how do VPN companies get away with legal complaints? Especially if their servers are located in Germany or Japan, where piracy is heavily penalized.

p.s. I have never used a VPN for piracy, and I have never received any DMCA emails.

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[-] ayaya 14 points 1 month ago

PIA is the best for torrents. It is $79 for 39 months which is $2.03/mo and they have port forwarding. That's less than half of pretty much every other provider.

I have had 3 clients (one for a specific tracker, one for everything else, and an extra seedbox) going 24/7 for years with no problems. No complaints about the speeds either. I frequently saturate full gigabit on both downloads and uploads.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have 4 seed boxes I run on pia. My only issue is that the port changes from time to time. I have to check on them every week or so. It's also one of the only court tested Vpns, though it did change hands after that

Edit: Turns out the pia client has a bash accessible command to get the active port. And Qbittorrent has a curl-able target to set the value. One bash script and a crontab... and now I don't ever have to deal with the port changes anymore. You're welcome leechers!