Unless you forget to bind your torrent client to the VPN interface. Found that out the hard way and had to pay 600 € for like 10 seconds of accidental seeding, and that was after negotiating with the law firm, else it would have been around 1k €. So yeah, the commenter above was not kidding with torrenting in Germany being dangerous, even the slightest error in your setup can be pretty expensive.
Now I only use i2p torrents to be on the really safe side, and also because I want to see the network grow.
Yeah it’s kind of embarrassing but in my experience the number one rule of VPN kill switch schemes is that they will fail to trigger. Sometimes twice, after you fix the discrepancy that caused it to not trigger the first time. Fucking docker being too smart for it’s own good… Me being too dumb for my own…
Unless you forget to bind your torrent client to the VPN interface. Found that out the hard way and had to pay 600 € for like 10 seconds of accidental seeding, and that was after negotiating with the law firm, else it would have been around 1k €. So yeah, the commenter above was not kidding with torrenting in Germany being dangerous, even the slightest error in your setup can be pretty expensive. Now I only use i2p torrents to be on the really safe side, and also because I want to see the network grow.
Yeah it’s kind of embarrassing but in my experience the number one rule of VPN kill switch schemes is that they will fail to trigger. Sometimes twice, after you fix the discrepancy that caused it to not trigger the first time. Fucking docker being too smart for it’s own good… Me being too dumb for my own…