Got a €930 Fine for Illegal Streaming—Will a VPN Keep Me Safe?

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I recently received a €930 penalty for streaming The Matrix Resurrections on an restirrected site. If I use a VPN, will I be safe? I live in Germany, so can I use a VPN with a German server, or would the risk be lower if I use a server in a neighboring country?

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I think you are being scammed buddy

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It’s called a SCAM not a fine…

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This doesn’t sound right… Are you sure you’re not getting scammed?

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Of course. That’s the reason most people use VPN for streaming also for Torrenting.

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Who fined you?
Did you torrent?

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You’ll be safe if you use a VPN. The server location doesn’t matter. I would just use whatever the client recommends as the fastest server.

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For the people here saying it’s a SCAM, I assure all of you 90% of these letters aren’t a SCAM.
Germany has the most restrictive and pro active anti piracy laws I see in a European country.
Normally other countries will be against P2P/Torrenting but Germany goes way higher by checking ALL downloads even with https and seeing if it was from a illegal site or not, they could just block that site and people would need to change DNS and/or get a VPN to get around that but that way they don’t generate income for the companies that have the loyalties for that specific music/video/TV series.

Nevertheless, here is a good tutorial with some tips to find out if it’s a scam or not: https://kummuni.com/illegal-downloading-in-germany/

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They cant fine you for just looking at a website and most web have http so all they can see is you visited them right?

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But how did he get a fine for illegally streaming if he was using a VPN? How did they know? (Asking sincerely as I admittedly don’t fully understand how this stuff works.)

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He wasn’t using a VPN. He’s asking if using a VPN going forward will help.

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Thanks for the explanation. In my country we have a law against using torrent but neither my country or ISP companies don’t care about it. People don’t care here about getting fined. I am using VPN for when I am in Europe or to be more anonymous. I don’t trust my country’s president about my privacy because he done couple of things about privacy to my country’s people many time.