Is a VPN necessary for torrenting in SA?

[Savy561]

Hi all, I torrent a lot of content that is geo blocked such as anime that is not available locally. Now I know South Africa doesn't crack down on torrenting but I currently have fibre with supersonic on the vumatel infrastructure and for the past year my public ip address has remained static and never changes.

Now I am wondering if I should look into using a vpn for torrenting as I am worried that my static ip could end up being flagged or blacklisted. Any insight into torrenting from SA and the potential risks would be appreciated?

 

[MirageF1]

Guess it all depends how's often and how much.

If you going to be doing 1Tb , 24x7x365 at 50-100mpbs I would take care.

A few 10s of GBs here and there , no sweat.

 

[ActivateD]

My media server is running NordVPN via OpenVPN. I tunnel all external communication via NordVPN nothing touches my "ISP IP" even updates on my media server go through it. No complaints from my ISP so far.

 

[netstrider]

Years ago a former colleague got flagged by Sony Entertainment and local authorities tracked the download to my then employer.

He was fired.

It depends how much and what you download I suppose.

Downloading GoT episode after episode as it was released is not something I would recommend. Would rather wait a bit and then download all at once for example - and for something that popular still through a VPN, at least while it's "hot property".