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.

  • haroldfinch@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    29 days ago

    But it’s VPN providers who rent the servers that have downloaded the torrents. So they can basically say it’s not done by us, but the users of our service, and thus they don’t bear any consequences? It seems like such a good business model.

    I mostly use public trackers. Maybe it’s just my ISP doesn’t care.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Plot twist: RIAA and MPAA own all the major VPN providers, and/or the data centers they rent from.

      /ConapiracyTheory

    • bastionntb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Correct. That’s also why it’s important to find providers thatchave passed many independant audits. Like ProtonVPN or Mulvad.