Brazil and most Latin American countries are also safe pirate havens, unless you set up a for-profit piracy site, then you’re painting a huge target on your head.
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scytale@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Technically you don’t need a vpn if you live in certain countries where the government doesn’t give a shit that you torrent.
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
You can also just direct download games without a VPN.
100% safe?
No, but uh, ISPs have so heavily switched over to monitoring torrents, they kind of forgot the other option exists.
(I’ll update this with a -whoops I got fucked- if that happens, but I’ve been doing this for half a year now, no problems.)
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Only thing Eastern Europe does better than the west
Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
Maybe it’s luck but I’ve shamelessly torrented in the UK my whole life, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the past fifteen years, I’ve downloaded a petabyte on pirated content.
I’ve never used a VPN and the one time I got a letter from my ISP, I suspect it was a scam anyway. I have used at least 4 ISPs in this period and two mobile networks, I’ve even used public and work WiFis with not issue.
I’m not sure if this a UK thing or if I’m just wildly lucky.
jedibob5@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m stateside, and I torrented something once without a VPN and got an email complaint from my ISP not long after.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
To be fair, I’m also stateside and, while I knew enough to know not to do it with abandon, I’ve torrented without a VPN at least a handful of times and never got anything from my ISPs in two decades.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Have the same story here in Belgium.
Never gotten a letter.
In the Netherlands they pay a small fee (2€ on a new phone) on every electronics “with which you can download”, which allows them to pirate without much worrying.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
We have such a fee as well in Sweden, but piracy is still illegal and prosecuted.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’m doing fine in Ireland anyway.