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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

If you torrent copyrighted material in Germany, you definitely want a VPN. Private law firms "representing copyright holders" regularly request information about consumers based on source IPs/protocol/ports from ISPs with a court's rubber stamp, then send out demand letters for hundreds of euros, with a risk of thousands if you choose to fight it.

Sometimes they follow up if you ignore it, sometimes not. It is horribly oppressive.

tl;dr germans who torrent from a consumer internet service should use a vpn