Do you use a VPN?

[malistix1985]

Ka-pi96 said:

malistix1985 said:

A commen way to track people downloading copyrighted content is for the company to distribute it themselves by doing this they gain access to the data of other peers and in that way they know who downloaded the content.

When you use a VPN one adress is connected to hundreds or more people and the data behind it is encrypted making it unable for them to see who you really are. 

Does that even work? I mean, surely either the company would then be breaking the law for distributing pirated content in the first place (which seems to be much more heavily policed than people downloading the content), or it would be considered entrapment in which case they wouldn`t have a chance at successfully prosecuting someone for it anyway.

I know for a fact some companies do it and no its not illigal to distribute content they own trough software (P2P) which they own.
There are also some excamples of companies who put games online (mad games tycoon was a brilliant one) for people to download but cripple their own content. 

Either way there are many ways for companies to find out who is downloading what look at the mess with the Kodi anti-piracy campaign, law firm can track users who stream illegally because some of the plugins got in to their controll.

VPN stops all of these companies from never knowing who you are because they don't use the data from your ISP and don't use any real political steps to find out who you are. Its discusting right now on the download scene.