Do I really need a VPN?
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Hey guys,
I have been torrenting porn since 2005 and have never used a VPN, proxy or anything like that. I was just curious, for porn downloaders/uploaders, is it really necessary to have one? I've never had a single problem without using one. If so, can anyone recommend one that is free? The last thing I need is another monthly or yearly bill to deal with. :cheers:
Thanks!
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I would STRONGLY recommend using a VPN, ESPECIALLY if you're in the United States. Things can get very ugly, very quickly without one.
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Can you recommend one that is good and free or are they all a subscription? I doubt I'll bother, don't think anyone is coming after anyone for free porn.
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I strongly second MrMazda's recommendation that a VPN is always good idea.
Regarding your question of a free VPN: you get what you pay for. While I am sure you can find a free VPN provider, I don't recommend any.
You will find that many of gt.ru's users use PrivateVPN or PrivateInternetAccess, to name two. I heard that some users have bad customer experience with PrivateInternetAccess, so I would do your research to find one that is a good fit for you. There have been many forum threads discussing users' VPN experience if you search through. I agree that if you are in US, I would find a service that is not based in US .
Good luck on your search!
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I would STRONGLY recommend using a VPN, ESPECIALLY if you're in the United States. Things can get very ugly, very quickly without one.
I don't see the point in having a VPN other than to log into websites that give free daily quotas per IP address for various things.
Another reason would be if someone were using their computer for doing drug deals or something pedo activity, neither of which I have the slightest interest in.Long ago, there were some instances where people got in trouble for downloading NEW commercial music and NEW commercial mainstream movies, but the main people pushing for those crackdowns were Lars Ulrich who used to be huge in metal music but is now just a 53 year old has been who focuses much more in free-lance writing for TV shows (including writing the cheesy scripts for professional wrestling "storylines"). In other works, music boy is washed up and has more than he can handle with THREE ex-wives. The guy pushing for the protection of motion pictures was Jack Valenti.. who dropped dead 10 years ago.
Another problem with VPNs is that they slow down your transfers to a crawl.. yet another problem is that one vpn is not good enough to give you anonymity. Two are required.. and virtually nobody does that. And yet another reason.. by having a VPN, you are raising a red flag of suspicion on yourself. "why is that person using a vpn?" The people insisting you need a VPN are typically the people who are selling VPN services.
By the way.. your own ISP can see everything you are doing with your computer as they are transferring stuff to your cable modem. Going through 100 vpns would not prevent that.
As for legal age porn movies. I have yet to hear of a single case in which someone got in legal trouble for downloading porn.
I have a great example that covers this topic. Earlier this year, there was the mega promoted pay per view boxing event of Lloyd Flypaper vs Colon McBooger. About 4.6 million people legitimately paid between $30 and $100 to view that event.. so figure that brought in $300 million in just pay per view sales. However, an estimated 132 million more TVs pirated the event! So, only about 3.5% paid to see that stupid boxing match. If all those people paid legit, it would have been about $8.6 billion. If all of them paid the $100 per tv that was charged in the USA, that one lame match would have brought in about $13.7 billion! My point being.. they can't seriously expect people to pay what they want them to pay. For those that didn't see that fight that the promoters would have liked to get $13.7 billion for.. let me summarize it for you. It was an exhibition match that meant nothing. It was between a boxer and a big-mouth mixed martial arts fighter (guess who won the boxing match? That is like having the best motorcycle racer vs the best car racer in a motorcycle race). Anyway, the first few rounds of the fight were technically won my Colon, because he was going all out to try and hurt Lloyd Bieberraper. Lloyd just kept his distance, and in later rounds Colon wore himself out, Lloyd hit him with 3 unanswered punches, and the referee stopped the match with both of them still on their feet and in pretty good shape. WTF is that? With all that money riding on that match, the referee should not have stopped the match until Colon was knocked down. My point being.. there was no clear winner, and the referee stopped the match. People were paying to see something like a "Rocky" movie fight.. and instead got two money hungry con men playing patty cake. So.. when these promoters complain about "piracy" they can go get a blowjob from Hillary Clinton.
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By the way.. your own ISP can see everything you are doing with your computer as they are transferring stuff to your cable modem. Going through 100 vpns would not prevent that.
While this unfortunately may be the case with a poorly configured VPN, one of the major benefits of subscribing to a reputable VPN is that your ISP in fact cannot see your web traffic. In short, all internet packets are obfuscated (AES encryption, SSH tunneling, Shadowsocks, Stunnel, etc.), so all your ISP will be able to see are encrypted packets going to your VPN provider's IP address.
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By the way.. your own ISP can see everything you are doing with your computer as they are transferring stuff to your cable modem. Going through 100 vpns would not prevent that.
While this unfortunately may be the case with a poorly configured VPN, one of the major benefits of subscribing to a reputable VPN is that your ISP in fact cannot see your web traffic. In short, all internet packets are obfuscated (AES encryption, SSH tunneling, Shadowsocks, Stunnel, etc.), so all your ISP will be able to see are encrypted packets going to your VPN provider's IP address.
Encryption and disguising one's IP address are two different things. And again.. someone encrypting their data is going to raise a lot of red flags. I really see no point in encrypting data unless you are doing something illegal to begin with.
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I just realized that my $300 Netgear router offers its OWN VPN service via Canada.
I also subscribe to a Usenet service which also offers free VPN.
There ARE legitimate good uses for VPNs. But there is a big price to pay in having SLOW as mud transfers.
Here's one good reason… some websites such as YouTube restrict content based upon what country you live in. Most content is available to people in the USA.. but if you live in Iran or North Korea, or some other nut country, you might be forced to use a VPN to get quite a bit of content. In fact, North Korea has their OWN simple, bare bones version of the internet which is not connected to the rest of the internet. They can afford to do that since they just steal technology and don't recognize any copyrights. -
I would have to disagree with you on this one Frederick. I have NEVER had a problem with slow speeds on a VPN. Sure, there is a TINY amount of less from the overhead created from the encryption, however from my experience, this loss is negligible at best.
Also, there is another HUGE benefit to using a VPN, most especially in the United States. Trum has done away with a few safeguards, which has allowed American ISP's and copyright trolls to bypass the normal subpoena process by purchasing your browsing history direct from your ISP (among a few other ways he has enabled). Not using a VPN leaves you open to all kinds of spying. Sure, if you're not doing anything illegal, you've got nothing to worry about in theory, but the question then becomes at what point will the government stop with their spying? Also, there's the whole question of whether or not sacrificing your privacy is really a good thing, or if it opens the door to a number of potential downfalls later on down the line.
Also, what you're referring to is a deep-trace, which required the use of at least two different VPN stations to tunnel through. The chances of this happening over a copyright claim are virtually nonexistent. So… If you're just looking for the added browsing privacy, and/or you're looking for a great way to be able to avoid copyright trolls, a VPN would be the way to go, as long as you can find one that will fit your needs, and does NOT log connection information. This will keep that kind of thing at bay by imposing an impassable road block more or less to that kind of thing. By the time they even could THINK about getting around the first layer, you'd be long gone.... We're talking about downloading questionable content from a copyright perspective here... Not hacking the Pentagon :funny2: :funny2: :funny2:
