Basically what the title says. I don’t get how VPNs can keep me safe when I’m **hypothetically** torrenting. Can’t ISPs or the company owning the copyright track me down if I were to?
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If you use a torrenting service you can literally click on the torrent to see the ip of all the people who are currently torrenting this file you can then find out which isp this ip belongs and then send them a letter asking for your details in my country the isp has to comply.
Vpns change your ip Adress so it’s way harder to find out who is actually torrenting. It’s not impossible I think but it’s not worth the bother usually.
A lot of Vpns advertise with their “military grade encryption” which as far as I know doesn’t matter at all.
Your ISP can log everything you do…
While in most cases they can see what you do because of basic SSL encryption, but they can see how many times you watched yourtube, which video, facebbok instagram, every single website you visited… Even p*rn sites, because incgnito mode does nothing about your ISP
They can see that you are sending and receiving data, movies, music etc…
This information, your habits are extremely valuable on large scale… They can sell that data
VPNs usually advertise themselves that they are not logging you and they are not selling your data… Using a VPN creates an additional layer of encryption and your ISP is only gonna see that you go to a random server sending receiving encrypted data…
Your ISP can’t see inside your data stream anymore and can’t log your habits and the VPN promises not to log you and not look what you do, if you pay your monthly fee…
ISP knows who you are but can’t see what you’re sending/receiving.
VPN knows what you’re sending/receiving but can’t see who you are.
There’s ways to identify you but most VPNs are built around the promise they don’t log your activity. Some are also based in other countries whose laws do not provide an avenue for law enforcement to get the information.
Generally speaking, unless you’re into some really bad business, you’ll remain anonymous.
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