{"id":4863,"date":"2019-03-08T04:48:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T09:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vpncrew.com\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2019-03-08T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T09:57:09","slug":"vpns-for-torrenting-and-p2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vpncrew.com\/vpns-for-torrenting-and-p2p\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Best VPNs for Torrenting & P2P"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is quite common to hear VPN services\nboasting of torrenting or P2P file sharing on the service. It has become one of\nthe selling factors for VPN providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason being that torrenting is facing\na lot of hostility from governments and media agencies across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Throttling\nis also a common practice exercised by Internet\nService Providers to prevent a user from downloading files using the medium of\nP2P file sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of the countries have banned various\ntorrenting clients from their cyberspace. These measures have been taken after a lot of efforts made by the\nmedia houses across the globe to take down torrenting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VPNs turn out to be the best way to counter\nthe attempts made by governments, ISPs, and\nmedia houses to stop people from using torrent to download content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is also necessary to understand the reason behind the increased popularity of torrent services, and the reason why media agencies and governments want to wipe away torrenting from the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get to know torrenting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We all know how traditional downloads work.\nThere is a server in some part of the world which contains the file you intend\nto download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a person presses the download button,\na copy of the file is sent to the\ndownloader. The whole of the file is downloaded\nin one go without any break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In such cases, it is easy to map the server as well as the downloader. The IP addresses of the sender, as well as the receiver, are known to the ISPs and other bodies in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VPNs can easily mask the IP address of the user. IP address represents\nthe user on the internet in a way, and it is impossible for the service and the\nservice providers to know that it is you who is generating the requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is because of this reason that VPNs make it almost impossible to\nkeep a track of the user\u2019s online activities. We will discuss how a VPN service\nachieves this in the later sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The downloading speed also remains constant\nthroughout the process. It depends upon the capability of the internet\nconnections of the sender as well as the receiver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us now try to understand how a file is\nuploaded and downloaded through a torrent client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the usual modes of download, there\nis no single specified server which is responsible for uploading the file for\nthe user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, there is no server or a central hosting when it comes to torrent\ndownloads. A file is uploaded by one of\nthe users which is then sent to other\nusers in the form of small data packets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As these other users start receiving parts\nof files from the uploader, they also begin\nto upload whatever they have downloaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This simultaneous uploading of parts of the\nfile makes them uploaders for the other downloaders. By the way, this is not\nhow they are addressed in the torrent\nworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torrenting has its own nomenclature, and it is\nnot very difficult to understand. All the parties involved in a torrent\ndownload are called peers. That is how the name peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing\ncame into existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all peers are the same though. The ones who have all the parts of\nthe file, and are still connected to the\nnetwork to the network are called \u2018Seeders.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The receivers, on the other hand, are\ncalled \u2018leeches\u2019 as they absorb the content shared by seeders and other\nleeches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many times there will be leeches who will stop the torrent once they have\ndownloaded the file completely. This is\nconsidered to be a very selfish act in the torrenting\ncommunity as these people do not help others after receiving the help\nthemselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In torrenting, peers are the downloaders as\nwell as the uploaders. So, it is necessary that a peer who has downloaded the\nfile from the torrent helps others in the process as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the best way to help is by becoming a\nseeder in the network. The efficiency of this system depends highly on the\nnumber of peers and even more on the\nseeders to the leaches ratio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such information is generally provided by\nthe torrent client which makes it easier for the user to guess the health of a\nparticular torrent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The\npeers are connected to each other in a mesh-like system with all of them sharing data.\nThe speed of download also varies a lot compared to the usual ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two factors which affect the\nspeed of download in torrenting. First one is the number of seeders present in\nthe network. Leeches also play their part when it comes to assisting the\ndownload, but the speed is usually controlled by\nseeders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be obvious that the download speed will be better if there are more\nseeders in the network. However, there is one more thing which affects the download\nspeed of torrents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The percentage of the file downloaded by the user also affects the\ndownload speed. When you download a torrent,\nyou will notice that the downloading speed is lesser at the beginning of the\ndownload, and considerably increases as the download progresses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, the user\u2019s ability to\ncontribute more to the torrent network improves his\/her ability to download\nfaster from the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do people even use torrenting?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Even though torrenting may not be able to\ncompete with the regular downloads in\nterms of speed, it still has a few advantages over the regular download\navenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first advantage of torrenting is that\nit does not require many specialized\nresources. There is no need for dedicated servers or a very high-speed internet connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there are enough peers on the network,\nthen speed is taken care of automatically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another advantage of torrenting is that it supports downloading\nirrespective of the emergency circumstances such as the server going offline or\nthe system downloading the file shuts down abruptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Since there is no one specific system which\nacts as the server, there is always a system online which lets the user\ncontinue downloading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another advantage of multiple peers is that it saves the user from any\nmalware injection which is very common among the conventional downloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if a system gets corrupted, there are\nother systems which carry on with the usual process of uploading content for\nthe user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torrenting also helps with anonymity as\nthere are so many players involved which makes it difficult to pinpoint a single one among them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is torrenting legal? And, Can VPN Make it Legal?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

News of people getting into legal troubles\nbecause of downloading torrents doesn\u2019t surprise people very much anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of the countries have also banned\nvarious torrent search engines such as\nthepiratebay.com and kickass.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is easy to deal with such restrictions with the use of VPNs. We will\ndiscuss this feature of VPNs in the next section. Now it is important to\nunderstand why these engines are banned at the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such news and bans may suggest that\ntorrenting is indeed an illegal activity. However, the case is not what it\nseems at the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torrenting as an activity in itself is completely legal. But some people use it for\nunethical petty gains, and the majority\nof the times these activities are inconsistent with the local laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no denying in the fact that\ntorrenting has been one of the most used avenues for piracy of copyrighted\ncontent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distributions of copyrighted content or\nintellectual property of a person or an organization are deemed unlawful acts\nin most of the countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media agencies and production houses have\ntaken the most severe hit from piracy of content with the use of torrents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various researches indicate that this\nindustry loses a substantial amount of money because of piracy, and torrenting\nhas been the most widely used media for the distribution\nof pirated content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it is only obvious that torrenting is bound to face severe retaliation from\nthe media agencies. It is just because of\nthis campaign of media houses against torrenting that governments across the\nworld are banning torrent search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media houses have gone a few steps further\nto ensure that there aren\u2019t many servers which allow torrenting through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US and France have been seeing a trend\nwhere media houses are boycotting those servers which allow P2P file sharing\nthrough them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the VPN services have also been affected by such steps. They\ndon\u2019t allow users to download torrents through certain VPN servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, there are VPN services which don\u2019t depend upon third\nparty servers, and therefore don\u2019t put any such restrictions on the user. It is\none of the factors that the user needs to be aware of before investing in a VPN\nservice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not just the government and the media\nhouses, the internet service providers have also joined forces with all their might to curb the menace of privacy\nthrough torrent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throttling of internet connections when\nsomeone is downloading a torrent is the way of ISPs to stop people from\ntorrenting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though we agree that piracy is an\nillegal activity and it adversely affects the pockets of content creators, we\nstill feel that trying to stop torrent itself is not a very healthy solution to\nthe problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collateral damage with the current\nsolutions is a bit too much than what should be acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torrenting is still one of the efficient\nways to download large files as there is so much freedom involved with a\ntorrent download. And even though it is not a super-efficient way to stay\nanonymous on the internet, torrenting does provide a bit more anonymity as\nopposed to nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attempts to stop people from using\ntorrents has been effective in the western countries to quite an extent, but\nthere are still a few regions in the east where torrent downloads are still popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these regions don\u2019t have very strict laws when it comes to piracy of\ncopyrighted content and intellectual property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are still ways for typical users to do P2P file sharing, and the\nbest solution to the problem is the use of VPNs. Let us try to understand how VPNs\ncan help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can VPNs help<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A VPN service redirects the user\u2019s internet\ntraffic through its servers located across different regions. The traffic is not\njust redirected, but it is also encrypted during this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sounds like a simple enough explanation\nof what VPNs do, but there are a lot of factors associated with the functioning\nof a VPN service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the scope of this article directs us\nto keep torrenting into perspective, we will not dive too deep into the details\nof VPNs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest roadblocks which prevent users\nfrom torrenting are the throttling of connections on downloading torrents and\nblocking of torrent search engines in various countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we mentioned earlier, VPN services\nencrypt the user\u2019s internet traffic while rerouting it through their servers.\nMajority of the VPN services either use 256-bit encryption or 128-bit\nencryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both these encryptions are robust enough\nand virtually impossible to penetrate without the deciphering key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These encryptions prevent internet service providers from detecting the\ncontent of the user\u2019s traffic data. It is therefore not possible for the ISP to\nknow if the user is downloading torrents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, the user\u2019s internet connection is not subjected to throttling for P2P file\nsharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth mentioning here that VPNs use secure protocols to redirect this already\nencrypted internet traffic which prevents any outside party from getting their\nhands on this encrypted data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other hindrance, which is the blocking\nof torrent search engines in various countries, can be dealt with the use of\nVPNs very easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that the user needs to do is to choose\nserver location in a country or region\nwhere the search engine is not banned, and he\/she will have access to the\nwebsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VPN services have servers located in\nvarious parts of the world, and these server locations act as pseudo locations\nfor the user. It becomes effortless to\nbypass the geo restrictions by using these server locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of server locations as well as\ntheir diversity varies from VPN to VPN. This\nis when the user needs to make a wise\ndecision while choosing the VPN service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One should make sure that the server\nnetwork has a lot of servers which are spread out evenly across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will not only make sure that the user can bypass a lot of the geo\nrestrictions, but it will also ensure\nthat he\/she receives good quality service from the VPN provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media houses in various countries don\u2019t let\nthe server hosting companies to allow P2P file sharing through their servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This takes away the ability of the user to download torrents. And it is\nbecause of this reason only that it is very tough to download torrents in\nFrance and the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the VPN services can\u2019t do much in this\ncase if they are using third-party servers. Some VPN services maintain their own servers, and therefore, enjoy full\nauthority over them without having to worry about the media houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, sometimes even this solution won\u2019t\nsuffice because of the government restrictions in some areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To counter this problem, several VPN services provide dedicated P2P servers in their server\nlist which allow P2P file sharing without any restriction whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These dedicated P2P servers have high\nbandwidths to facilitate downloading of large files, in other words, they are\nspecifically optimized for torrenting purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the VPN services don\u2019t have dedicated\nservers, and it again comes to the user to check whether the service has dedicated servers or not before\nstarting to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing which has a role to play in\ntorrent downloads is the speed of the download. The output speeds vary a lot\nacross the VPN services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You need to ensure that the VPN service\ngives speeds on the higher end of the spectrum before subscribing to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torrents help the user remain anonymous to\nsome extent, but it is not an effective way of\nstaying anonymous at all. The ISPs and government\nagencies can still detect your activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VPNs mask all your activities from these\nagencies, but it is now the VPN service which has got all the information about\nyour activities on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is of utmost importance to invest in a reliable service. There are two factors which\nwill help you a lot to decide if the service can be trusted or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One is to check if the service has a\nno-logs policy or not. If there won\u2019t be any records of your online activities,\nthere won\u2019t be any danger of them getting into the wrong hands as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing you can check is the\njurisdiction of the country. Make sure that the service is not based in a country which mandates data retention, or has a\npoor record when it comes to guarding people\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should definitely\nnot be one among the 14-Eyes countries, which are infamous for massive surveillance and spying on the\ncitizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The apt ones for the job<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Now that you know the factors to keep in\nmind before choosing a VPN service for the torrent,\nyou will be able to make better decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few suggestions from our side to\nhelp you out in the process. This is just\na list of VPN services which we think are best suited for the job. It is not a\nranking of these services by any means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NordVPN<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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With more than 5000 servers in the network, this VPN service from Panama, has got all the requisites for a service apt for P2P file sharing and that’s why we’d like to rank them number #1 in this llist. The P2P optimized servers make things a lot easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Info<\/strong>: Read Review<\/a> | Visit Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ExpressVPN<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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It is among the most prominent VPN services, and the product speaks for itself. The P2P dedicated servers allow the user to download torrents with ease, and high speed on the service makes it a breeze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Info<\/strong>: Read Review<\/a> | Visit Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CyberGhost<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This Romania VPN service has a vast server network, and provides dedicated P2P servers to the user. The no logs policy ensures that the user\u2019s activities don\u2019t leak out. The best part of CyberGhost is, it is one of the cheapest option available to protect your torrenting and have sleek user interface among the most!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Info<\/strong>: Read Review<\/a> | Visit Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perfect Privacy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As the name suggest, Perfect Privacy has some high profile privacy features that can protect user’s privacy through their option to configure P2P port forwarding. Like many leading VPNs, it use AES-256 – Miliatary Grade – encryption and have some dedicated servers offered for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Info<\/strong>: Read Review<\/a> | Visit Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProtonVPN<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As we have previously mentioned during our review about ProtonVPN<\/a>, The Swiss company takes pride in their unmatched privacy policy that is backed by some leading scientists, developers as well as engineers. Many of these were part of CERN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Info<\/strong>: Read Review<\/a> | Visit Website<\/a>
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