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I like the idea of peertube and hopefully it'll be the future with more and more bandwith being available but the risk of ending in jail right now is too high in my country.
If you get fined for downloading a movie it would be a relatively small amount of money I'd say not more than 200 € but if you torrented a movie you are now fined as a distributor and the 200 € will get multiplied by the amount of people you potentially shared the movie with and that's a shitload of money.
I could be wrong in some details because torrenting died about a decade ago in my country but in the end the risk of getting sued for xx,xxx € is not worth it. And if I understood the peertube system right, I would be torrenting every video I watched and couldn't know if I am violation the law
Could a subscription to a decent VPN solve that for you?
Sure but then it's a question of convenience. You have to set up the VPN and make sure you don't use peertube without it because the last thing you want is to realize that you torrented videos for 30 minutes and you VPN client wasn't running probably. Also you have to pay for a good VPN service and could potentially have lower bandwith.
On the other hand Youtube is free and perfectly legal