It’s like a condom for downloading if your girlfriend has an STD – easy to use and safe, but you would be extremely careless if you didn’t use it. No more risk, just plain old file sharing fun without all the bad consequences. A VPN, on the other hand, is a simple service that will hide your real identity (IP) and stop any tracking by either your provider or network administrator (say hello to these guys if you’re using your universities network, or a rogue ISP). Not everyone will get “caught” (lol at that), but thousands of people get send warning letters and heavy fines every day.In our opinion, if you’re still using P2P file sharing without any protection, you’re either very brave or just stupid… the risk is just way too high. This includes everyday file sharers, even people that just download one song or movie. These days, the copyright industry just loves to sue people for alleged “copyright infringement” (read more on their aggressive and dubious methods here and here). A VPN will protect your privacy and stop tracking, extremely important when sharing files.Although it is possible in most cases, and we have a tutorial on how to do that, too, there is a better way: Use a VPN anonymization service that supports port forwarding. Most guides teach you to manually open the ports on your router. Recommended: Use a VPN with port forwarding Especially older file sharing protocols, such as eMule/eDonkey2000, Ares P2P, and Soulseek heavily rely on this, but BitTorrent will also tend to download much faster and, even more important, find sources for older files. To get the best performance in P2P networks such as BitTorrent, you need to forward ports, otherwise you won’t be able to accept incoming connections and might miss a lot of peers / sources for your files (if you need a more detailed explanation, check out this article).
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