Hijacking this comment cause more people REALLY need to know about Debrid services, such as Real-Debrid. Torrents are "cached’ to a server farm, so anything you want can be downloaded directly at your connection’s maximum bandwidth; no waiting for seeds. And since you’re not distributing anything, you don’t have to pay for a VPN, either.

I have a Gigabit connection and was able to download three different AAA titles, 50+ GB each, play all of them, then decide that I don’t like any of them, all within a couple of hours. It’s mind-blowing how much faster it is than using a torrent client.

Even better, you can integrate it with your favorite media center app like Plex or Kodi (personally I prefer Stremio for its Netflix-like interface). Now you have every show and film from every streaming platform – all in one place – streamed instantly to your TV. I’ll never use torrent clients ever again.

Use whatever works for you.

The *arr + torrent client setup just works so well, I can’t be bothered to change it. The *arr software automatically picks out good torrents that are the format you requested and that are seeded. I never really saw it not saturate my connection. For movies, I have to wait a few minutes (depending on file size and my own connection speed). For TV shows, new episodes are downloaded automatically as soon as they are released, so I just have to select the episode under “new episodes” in my media center app on whatever device I’m on.

Even if I were to use a debrid service, I’d probably still use a VPN for it because I wouldn’t want them to log my real IP.

If that works for you, that’s absolutely fine. I just want people to know that there’s a faster alternative to torrent clients. Use what you’re comfortable with, but if I can convince even one person that there’s a better way, then my job here is done.

I have nothing to gain from this; I didn’t even post an affiliate link even though the option is there. Just trying to inform those who are interested.