I am into torrenting movies- alas no money to get a VPN, What else can I do? I don’t really need a VPN because I live in a third world country and I don’t get no lettters if I sail the seas, I was searching for any other ways to hide my IP address from the swarm, without loosing much speed?
I came across this Tribler client, I don’t know if its good, Should I try Socks5 proxy or something like that?
Or tell me if the only good method is using a VPN, in that case I should wait out a couple years until I make money and remote torrent by making like 15 accounts in TorBox.
I will apologize, if I said something stupid in advance because I severly lack any knowledge in what I am talking about.
It doesn’t matter.
The only reason to have VPNs for this is preventing internet shut-offs, fines, and nasty letters. Those only exist in the first world for the most part and only parts of it (in Germany they will directly fine you thousands per violation most severe case, in most places like the US they just shut off your internet after enough violations but you get warnings).
If your country doesn’t have a regime for fining you directly for this, doesn’t have internet shut-off laws, and doesn’t have any other major consequences then it doesn’t matter. You can look it up.
Even some first world countries don’t care. Through a quirk of law in Australia for example it’s basically impossible for copyright holders to go after people doing p2p stuff for anything but the retail price ($20) of works so it’s not worth their time and people there can do it freely.
No one else in the swarm cares who you are nor can they do anything. Use a modern client like Qbittorrent and keep it updated to stay secure.
At most maybe your ISP may throttle your bittorrent traffic because it’s not hidden using a VPN. But if you don’t have money you’re not getting a VPN that would improve your speed situation anyways. Just be patient.