they sue you for a portion of your future savings, because you single-handedly responsible for their imaginary loss of profits, judge agrees.
free tier vpns are good enough. But the competition amongst “no log” vpns is pretty fierce. People say you can only trust 3 specific vpns who would rather shut down than spy for a government, but if you’re just downloading movies then you can expand your choices.
the point of the vpn is to hide your ip address. Self hosting in your home defeats purpose. The best free option is using I2P for torrenting.
Wait till December for all the Christmas discounts. An annual bundle works out to $2-4 a month.