@MrMazda:
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.
