Fox@feddit.detoPiracy@lemmy.ml•Are VPNs still useful for privacy when torrenting?English
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1 year agoDepends, largely on how motivated people are to identify you.
If you infrequently torrent a few games and movies, using a VPN will probably be enough to deter most of the law firms specializing in churning out copyright notices. They go for the low hanging fruit first, aka the users without a VPN.
If you on the other hand were to engage in torrenting highly illegal stuff, and were therefore to become a target of state law enforcement, you’d be in a whole different kind of trouble. A VPN would likely not be sufficient.
Spytify works well. It works by recording the audio output of your pc while Spotify plays. It’ll produce audio files with all the song info filled in.
Can also detect and mute ads if you don’t have Spotify premium. If you do have it, you can also record with higher bitrate/quality.