https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/pirating-streaming-movies-in-germany
I didn’t know how Germans pirated and how they got caught, so I tried to do some research and found the article above, which is quite nice.
To summarize, your IP is visible to your ISP (internet service provider) and a law company can basically send a legal letter asking your ISP to identify you and you will be identified and your address and details will be given to the Lawyers. Now, you can either pay up or hire a lawyer and pay a lesser amount.
Now, the solution the article provided was, just use a VPN bro. But yes, VPNs can fail and not all VPNs allow you to torrent. So, how do these Germans pirate and not get caught?
PS: I obviously don’t condone pirate, asking for a friend who is an author.
Nope, here in italy there is no need for vpn or whatsoever
Also Sweden should be fine iirc
Belgium is often very friendly to pirates, but it is inconsistent. Like others, they get you for distributing, but I haven’t heard od anyone getting busted after 2012 or so.
tbf in italy it’s legal only for yourself but not if you do it to earn money; tnt village was closed cause of the many donations they got, it was abit of an edge case (maybe they had rewards for donators)
the only persecuted are the iptvs for football, cause they are paid and also they touch Serie A earnings, don’t try to touch calcio in italy ^^
explaining this just to be more informative, but ye for the most majority of scenarios, no issues downloading and seeding
haven’t tried to host a torrent myself tbh