This is the most plausible explanation to me as well

Is there a list of nyaa mirrors? I have bookmarked nyaa si and nyaa iss one, I think because at some point nyaa si wasn’t working properly. Would love to have more in case shit hits the fan

Not from the same source, but I’m in the middle of getting a 5GB file that took me five days so far and will take another five to complete. After that, I think I will keep sharing for as long as possible this one, since I see a lot of peers every day, even though there’s only one seeder, from which I’m currently downloading at 10Kbps (and not because of my bandwidth, I think it’s theirs that’s a bit on the slow side).

I have slow upload, but once there are two seeds things should get better for all other peers, compared to now haha

VPN isn’t specifically for pirating, personally I could even torrent without it, no one would give a crap; my situation aside, you can DDL without a VPN and you’d still be in the clear

Have you checked the thread on csrin for a cracked executable?

edit: you were asking for feedback about specifically those two VPNs, so my comment was useless.

No one mentioned cdromance, so I’ll do that. Pretty much the only source I use besides Vimm’s Lair. Also, when you can, prefer US versions over EU, as the former run at 60FPS while usually EU PAL are locked at 50FPS, if I’m not mistaken.