Regular users in Sweden are in danger because a corporation needs to fill their pockets. Studios are suing your ISPs to get to you.

Use I2P. It will hide your IP address (among the many things it can do), afford you more privacy and allow you to torrent freely, even without a VPN/seedbox. The catch? You’ll have to add the I2P trackers to your torrent.

I believe I2P is the way forward for piracy and I look forward to it getting bigger than it already is.

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    A VPN company can easily give up your details to the police who are now actively going after citizens. VPNs are not enough anymore.

    Is there a problem with I2P adoption? I’m sensing a massive lack of interest from this thread

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      If there are no logs, there is nothing to give up. There is no law that they have to keep logs as far as I know.

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m interested in i2p. Thanks for posting.

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        The point is that logs are generated and then deleted but companies who do not wish to keep such logs (e.g. IP address of client who connects to the VPN). I2P sure to it’s design, doesn’t even generate such incriminating logs (it might generate other kinds of logs which is a different discussion).

        Thanks

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        If there are no logs, there is nothing to give up. There is no law that they have to keep logs as far as I know.

        You have to trust that the VPN provider doesn’t store logs. I2P is pretty much trustless besides where the binary comes from, but you can even compile it yourself.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

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          Mullvad is trustworthy (imho, and because of audits).

          Anyway, you can have both, and run purple i2p with blackjack and torrents!

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      I admit that I’m skeptical since everyone is a node. It probably is fine, but I don’t know the risks that I take by volunteering as a node. I thought that VPNs can be fine as long as they don’t store logs, but I could be mistaken.

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        VPNs usually do store your IP when you connect to them, even if they delete it later (it is technically impossible to not know the IP address of whoever is connecting to the VPN). And the likes of Mullvad and IVPN do not allow port-forwarding.

        I will repeat what I said to the other commenter: please read the documentation. Being a router doesn’t mean that traffic and its contents can be linked to your identity. Data is broken down into chunks and encrypted along with metadata being scrambled. Unless there’s a zero day I’m unaware of, you are perfectly safe.