@IncubusAZ Any time you are using torrents, I would strongly recommend the use of a VPN. When downloading and seeding torrents, it is always possible that a copyright troll may look at the peer pool and see what IP addresses are registered as doing what with the torrent. When you're using your own ISP, this leaves you directly exposed to the pool, and upon request, a copyright troll may refer to your ISP to get the information on the subscriber of the service that was used to download or seed the torrent.
Now, under Canadian Law, thanks to the case of Voltage Pictures Inc vs TekSavvy Solutions Inc, we finally set the precedent that an IP address alone is insufficient to gather information about the subscriber account as the IP address alone is only sufficient to identify the subscriber of the service, and does not necessarily identify the end user of the service. Nevertheless, in other parts of the world (especially in the United States), this information is often used to identify the subscriber of the service and serve them with all kinds of notices, such as a notice of litigation.
When you use a VPN on the other hand, if you're using a good VPN that does not log any traffic or connectivity, the copyright troll will only be able to identify the VPN service that was used, and once they contact said VPN provider, the VPN provider will be able to respond to the request with "I'm sorry. We cannot give you information we do not have."
Now, with NordVPN, I should caution you that there are two potential problems with them and our service. The first is that NordVPN logs everything, which means that potentially, if a copyright troll has the VPN IP address and a date/time stamp to identify when the IP address was used, potentially, NordVPN can trace this back not only to your account, but also may be able to provide your real IP address, which potentially opens you up to the same issue.
As well, it should be noted that NordVPN does not directly support P2P traffic in that they do not have a direct port forwarding option for their servers. With our system, this can create many a problems, as we require that the port that your torrent client uses to be forwarded through your home router or VPN to your computer, both in TCP and UDP. This is a necessary step for getting proper upload traffic. While you may be able to download just fine with NordVPN, we cannot guarantee that upload traffic is going to work properly due to the nature of how NordVPN works.
If you're looking for a better VPN, I might be inclined to recommend the one I use, which is PrivateVPN. They support port forwarding for ONE port on ALL servers, then also have a list of servers which will forward ALL ports through the VPN to your computer. As well, PrivateVPN does not log anything, so in the event that a copyright troll should look into the peer pool and start cherry picking IP addresses to try to trace, PrivateVPN will not be able to give them any information on you as the subscriber or your real IP address, as none of this information is ever logged in the first place.