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
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