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Maybe it's luck but I've shamelessly torrented in the UK my whole life, I wouldn't be surprised if in the past fifteen years, I've downloaded a petabyte on pirated content.
I've never used a VPN and the one time I got a letter from my ISP, I suspect it was a scam anyway. I have used at least 4 ISPs in this period and two mobile networks, I've even used public and work WiFis with not issue.
I'm not sure if this a UK thing or if I'm just wildly lucky.
Have the same story here in Belgium.
Never gotten a letter.
In the Netherlands they pay a small fee (3.5€ on a new phone) on every electronics "with which you can download", which allows them to pirate without much worrying.
We have such a fee as well in Sweden, but piracy is still illegal and prosecuted.
I'm stateside, and I torrented something once without a VPN and got an email complaint from my ISP not long after.
To be fair, I'm also stateside and, while I knew enough to know not to do it with abandon, I've torrented without a VPN at least a handful of times and never got anything from my ISPs in two decades.