this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
612 points (99.7% liked)

PC Gaming

14343 readers
950 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are there actually any alternatives that are more secure? No matter how you aquire your media online your IP will be exposed to someone.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem for me is not that it is exposed to "someone". I am okay with Myrient getting my IP. The problem with Torrent is, that anyone joining the session gets all IPs from everyone who is connected at the moment.

[–] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I just don't understand what you are protecting yourself from, in my opinion if anyone can create a list of all of the pirated content you downloaded, you've already lost all security. A VPN should always be used.