First ever warning, no privacy protection, made me think twice

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As title says, received my first ever warning last night; you may say I've been lucky as I have been downloading torrents for over a decade and never had anything like this before until last night.
I do actually pay for streaming services as well as Sky TV, so it is only for personal use that sometimes I download a movie to watch, abit of music or very infrequently software/games.

What I do on the internet mostly is general browsing and online gaming, when I do download the above mentioned torrents is always my goto source and I use the uTorrent client.

I would be lying if I said receiving this email didnt scare me a little, whether or not it means anything other than the fact that I've been caught... whether or not it goes any further isnt that irrevelant to me, I dont like the fact that I have been caught just incase it did ever go further.

I was looking into getting a VPN, such as NordVPN though unless I want to pay upfront for 3 years, its $10.99 a month. I am from the UK so probably around £8 a month, not the cheapest really.
So before I went ahead and bought, is there anything you can suggest I use? Mostly all I think I really need is something to hide my ass when downloading from uTorrent.

Thanks in advance
Dstruct

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PIA: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/
IPREDATOR: https://www.ipredator.se/

Those are some good companies that come to my mind, I highly would think about PIA as they have stuff that you can use for just uTorrent and you can still keep your regualr connection for gaming as a VPN might slow that down.

[dstruct]

PIA: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/
IPREDATOR: https://www.ipredator.se/

Those are some good companies that come to my mind, I highly would think about PIA as they have stuff that you can use for just uTorrent and you can still keep your regualr connection for gaming as a VPN might slow that down.

I take it that there are no free to use tools of any kind that hide what I do with uTorrent and only uTorrent then, saves having to pay for an entire VPN package?
I dont mind paying £5 a month but would just rather not if I didnt have too (and can still be anonymous using uTorrent that is)

[contrail]

PIA: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/
IPREDATOR: https://www.ipredator.se/

Those are some good companies that come to my mind, I highly would think about PIA as they have stuff that you can use for just uTorrent and you can still keep your regualr connection for gaming as a VPN might slow that down.

I take it that there are no free to use tools of any kind that hide what I do with uTorrent and only uTorrent then, saves having to pay for an entire VPN package?
I dont mind paying £5 a month but would just rather not if I didnt have too (and can still be anonymous using uTorrent that is)

It still will cost you money it just will not cost as much.

[dstruct]

PIA: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/
IPREDATOR: https://www.ipredator.se/

Those are some good companies that come to my mind, I highly would think about PIA as they have stuff that you can use for just uTorrent and you can still keep your regualr connection for gaming as a VPN might slow that down.

I take it that there are no free to use tools of any kind that hide what I do with uTorrent and only uTorrent then, saves having to pay for an entire VPN package?
I dont mind paying £5 a month but would just rather not if I didnt have too (and can still be anonymous using uTorrent that is)

It still will cost you money it just will not cost as much.

I just bought NordVPN for 3 years for £73. Bought it through topcashback as well , it said 40% cashback so hopefully I get that. Would be nice, if not, still. At least I can relax a little for 3 years now, abit of a kick in the teeth to this months bank balance but oh well

[contrail]

Now that you bought it and pay for it might want to use it to the fullest extent you can. I would also recommend using OpenVPN on the computer as well as a program that would kill any applications if the VPN disconnects.

[joew771]

I've gotten 2 DMCA notices in the past 3 months, passed on from my ISP. And you know what happened? Nothing. I don't know how SKY deals with that sort of thing, but mine doesn't care that much. You know why? Because if they cancelled everyone from thier service who illegally downloaded, they would lose millions of dollars.

[dstruct]

Now that you bought it and pay for it might want to use it to the fullest extent you can. I would also recommend using OpenVPN on the computer as well as a program that would kill any applications if the VPN disconnects.

Yeah I will do, I have enabled that feature within the NordVPN program itself, to kill uTorrent if the VPN disconnects.
What extras does installing OpenVPN bring? Assuming you mean to run NordVPN application and OpenVPN together?
Pretty good with computers but all this VPN stuff is new to me, so sorry for the questions

[contrail]

OpenVPN: https://openvpn.net/

Open source protocol that has great strength.

[dstruct]

OpenVPN: https://openvpn.net/

Open source protocol that has great strength.

So I should use OpenVPN AND NordVPN?
Or just OpenVPN ?

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And if the latter, does that mean OpenVPN is better than NordVPN's software then? if so, just curious how/why in simple terms if possible