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Originally Posted by Lex Luthor
I respectfully disagree. The bandwidth I get with my VPN pipe (usually around 50-60 Mbps) is acceptable to me for my purposes.
That may very well be. But it's hard to beat the simplicity and the safety of installing the utorrent client and just going to Pirate Bay for everything.
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The very nature of how VPNs work make them incredibly inefficient. You become completely dependent on VPN server bandwidth, its current load, routing, etc. I've used many VPNs, in addition to configuring VPN services for our work infrastructure. It's effective, but it introduces all kinds of drawbacks. I greatly prefer newgroups or even better, torrent aggregators. There's essentially no worry about any DMCA notices. You're using all available bandwidth for downloading. You don't have to bother with a torrent client and the seeding of others. My torrent aggregator sources from pirate bay and many others, so if it's available on any of the torrent sites it's available to me without ever going to those sites. I go to one website, perform a search for what I want, and download it worry free. No additional client, no VPN connection to establish and remember to turn off once I'm finished. The site does all the dirty work. If the content is something like movies or TV, I can even stream it directly from the site. It has the ability to take something like a collection of RAR files for a TV season, and make that streamable on the fly directly from the website. I search for content, and have the ability to directly stream or download. They even provide an API so I could use some Python and have a couchpotato type setup. There's already an existing KODI addon for the one I use, so I can add the addon and stream everything that way without ever having to do anything other than browsing the addon. I pay a small monthly fee, but it's so worth it I wouldn't bat an eye at paying double what I'm currently paying for it.