Proxy vs VPN for torrenting ONLY

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It tried to research this as much as possible from this forum and other sources, but basically this is my situation:

I would only want protection from people (ISP, movie publishers, RIAA, etc) seeing the things i download via torrents. I don’t have much of a use for needing a different location or even hiding my browser data in the least.

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My question: is having a proxy all I need or am I more at risk than if i had VPN?

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I feel like (based on what I’ve read) a VPN would be unnecessary and slower than a proxy and wouldn’t offer me more protection based on the activity i want shielded.

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Thanks for any help!

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A proxy will hide your real IP address from movie publishers, RIAA etc, but your ISP can quite easily see what you are doing. However most ISPs don’t care about what you are doing as long as they don’t get notices about you.

Note: Some torrent-clients are NOT handling proxies well and will leak given the chance.

The other downside is that with a proxy you are “not connectable”. Which means that effectively you can’t get stuff from other clients that are also “not connectable”.