If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don't find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don't mention "free vpn".

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[–] Specal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope my own because why pay for a VPN service when I already rent a VPS

[–] m00b0mph 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you pay the VPS Provider? The Cops can simply go to the VPS Provider and ask what Bank account or paypal is linked to the Account who runs the Server with the IP address they tracked. And what if the VPS Provider is logging your traffic? They can Monitor anything that leaves your VPS (their network) because a VPS is just a Virtual Machine like KVM thats why its called VPS = VIRTUAL Private Server. OPSEC my friend... I think you are safer if you just use Mullvad and pay with XMR and only access the mullvad site from Tor. (I know i am paranoid xD)

[–] Specal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With my credit card, I'm not worried about the police coming after me. Pirating is a civil issue not a criminal issue.

But how do you think they are running their VPNs? As we have seen from the past, Paid VPNs can track what you do any way. Just make sure you're using HTTPS and you have setup your OS to encrypt your data and you're fine. No one's going through the effort to catch youre suspected of doing something serious enough.

[–] m00b0mph 1 points 1 year ago

Yea in your country maybe... But here in Germany for example its a real problem at least if you share (upload, seeding) you can get into searious trouble for piracy and if they get you, you need to pay a lot of money as penalty. And i know how they run their VPNs i was just suggesting mullvad because the past has shown that they actually dont log or store user data (The Swedish Police raided their offices and found nothing and left). Thats why i think mullvad is better for anonymity than a self hostet VPN on a VPS.