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Other than wanting an IP that's not directly tied to you?

Not sure what you mean by “directly,” there are going to be strong financial ties to any VPN provider one chooses, and as such, they are no better than running your own in a lot of circumstances.

If the VPN provider doesn't keep logs, you have plausible deniability that it was in fact your traffic coming out of that exit node.

How can I trust they don’t keep logs?

Same way you trust hey.com not share all your email with everyone publicly. By building some kind of trust, describing how they work, their policies, being clear about how they make money and so on.

I don’t know of any VPN provider as trustworthy as DHH and Basecamp.

That's not relevant.

Sure it is! All of my network traffic is going over a VPN. Not the case with email.

It’s sad to think VPN logs might be accepted as a source of truth. They probably are in most countries, but they really shouldn’t be.

If your crime is downloading Frozen, and the authorities can’t find any trace of the movie on the device the logs claim was used, then it would be shameful if the logs alone were enough to convict the person.

In which country is downloading a copyright film a crime, punishable by fines or prison sentences?

Did you miss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

It shouldn't be trivial to find you if someone wants to file a lawsuit. Everyday p2p shouldn't be dangerous.

If you have a server, allocated an IP, and someone sees that IP... that's a pretty direct tie.

> there are going to be strong financial ties to any VPN provider one chooses

Not if you pay with cash (such as Mullvad). Then it depends on what they can infer from your traffic.

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