Is it fine to use torrent or any other pirate sites to download games in Finland? will I get fined or any criminal charges for it?

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  5. I’d guess it’s fine, as some actual game publishers use torrent for their games. This isn’t pirating as this is the way to get the actual game though, but check out Enlisted by Gaijin. The game’s launcher torrents the game and seeds (distributes the files to others downloading the game) without your knowledge. They don’t ask, they just have it in the terms of service in small print.

    Have only heard of 1 guy getting a fine for pirating a movie but that was a decade ago. Other friends who pirate (mainly movies and series) never got into trouble for it so far. Someone I know pirated all their games (a solid decade ago again) and never got anything but a risk of viruses

  8. I guess there are risks. Not necessarily significant or anything, but there are risks nevertheless.

    A friend of mine used a VPN service for extra protection with torrents.

    I doubt anyone would bother to track a user with a VPN. Internet service providers can track those without VPN much more easily, if they wish to.

  11. Not legal, but there is a low chance it leads to anything. At most you’ll get a threat letter from a local scum lawfirm. If you do, ignore it. If you use VPN you will be safe from that as well.

  12. Risk free. Police doesn’t have resources to bug private citizens over this.

    If they contact, smug attitude n deny everything

  13. It’s fine. Right holders have been trying to go after people sharing movies and TV-shows, but not games to my knowledge. They have been very small scale efforts as well.

    I wouldn’t worry about downloading in Finland. If you want extra security use a non-Finnish VPN like PIA, NordVPN etc. If you can download from a private invite only torrent site there is 0% chance to worry about anything. Agencies scan the public swarms only like Pirate Bay.

  14. Wasnt there a finnish legal team that sent 500€ bills to people for downloading/seeding? Like 2-3 years ago. Some people even went to court but cant remember what happend

  16. Not the best country for it.

    The Finnish courts can force your ISP to give your personal data to shady law firms / private investigators upon their “proof” that your IP address has been illegally sharing their client’s movies/series/whatever.

    This happened a lot some years ago, when a “lawfirm” Hedman Partners sent blackmail messages to thousands of Finns demanding compensation for their client. This was for torrenting movies or series. I don’t know about games etc but I assume the same principles apply.

    The issue here is not the police coming to take you away for torrenting movies, but these shady lawfirms do take people to court, and most cannot afford those costs/stress so they prefer to pay up.

    So at least use a trustworthy VPN 🙂

  19. No one monitors pirating anymore, or atleast rarely do. I’ve torrented a shitload of games, movies, series and software.

  21. If i remeber correctly, they have to prove you seeded a full movie. Så setting seeding to 90% fixes that issue. Could be wrong. It’s just simpler nowadays to switch between streaming sites. Get one for a month and then cancel it and jump to the next one.

  23. I mean, it is of illegal but no one cares, it ain’t enforced and your internet provider couldn’t care less either, so unless you go to the police and say “hey I pirate games from online” they won’t do much

  24. Usually of you download and seed lots of really new music, movies or tv shows can get you a ticket, old material or games usually will not. To be extra safe, always use VPN and then ISP cannot rat you out!

  27. This question has the same energy as if i steal from store will i get any criminal charges for it….

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