>>1529606Not him but it's important to remember that torrents are file-sharing in its truest sense. You're downloading from other people, not a server. This is both a strength and a weakness. The other weakness you have to consider, aside from the one he mentioned, is that torrenting exposes you to risk from copyright enforcement hounds. Because of the way torrenting works every peer connected to a swarm exposes his IP address to every other peer. This makes it very easy for somebody interested in documenting copyright infringement to connect to the torrent themselves, then simply copy down every IP address they see in the swarm, then simply look up those IP addresses to figure out which ISP they belong to, and then send notices to those ISPs, who in turn send you a warning or worse, depending on how enforcement is handled where you live.
Now, maybe you live in a place where ISPs do not care about copyright enforcement. Lucky you. But if they do care then you have to be careful about what you torrent. Generally speaking, in America, ISPs do not care about torrenting anime. I was a Comcast customer for almost 16 years and torrented terabytes of anime and never heard a peep from them. I torrented one episode of Game of Thrones and they sent me a sternly worded email the next day warning that further infringement would be a strike against my account. And if American ISPs don't care, I doubt any other country does.
But if you are American and do plan on torrenting stuff besides anime, it's worth considering a VPN subscription. Free VPNs are garbage, you need a commercial one. Fortunately they are very cheap. Far, far cheaper than any streaming service subscription, in fact. If you get a multi-year plan it works out to something like $3/mo. And with that you can torrent movies, video games, TV shows, anime, music, software, etc. As much as you like, without any worry at all. Cancel all your other subscriptions cause you can torrent everything.
