Is a selfhosted VPN viable for piracy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Sasori323@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey everyone! One of my main issues with piracy in general are VPNs, because I absolutely HATE subscription services.

As far as i'm concerned, we need VPNs so that when torrenting, people cant see our IP adress and other information that can be potentially used againt us. I've heard that there's people who log those IP adresses so that they can like "report" people doing piracy or sth like that. Correct me if i'm wrong.

So, with this purpose in mind, I understand that VPN services are useful because they can help hide our real information. But as I said, I dont like subscription services and I saw that there's the option to selfhost a VPN.

But I thought a bit about it, and, if I'm using a selfhosted VPN using, for example, a raspberry pi or a laptop, isn't the imformation of that laptop ALSO potentially dangerous? Because it is connected to your own ISP and it has the same location as you have (if you set it up at yout home).

I know this may sound dumb, but I don't know much about this. And I can't find information about this.

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[-] CthulhuDreamer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If you are going to selfhost your vpn then you are going to "hide" behind your vpns ip, which probably leads to you anyway. VPN services are often contacted by authorities and why they work is because they refuse to disclose the information.

[-] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Precisely this. If the authorities suspect you of digital piracy, they're going to go to your VPN provider and demand the information of the user involved. If that provider is you, you might as well not have used one in the first place.