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For piracy I really do not see the appeal of self-hosting a VPN.
If you really must self host a good VPN like Mullvad (or even windscribe as you mentioned) can be ran even on a webserver to tunnel all of your torrent traffic through, deluge is incredibly easy to setup to run only over mullvad.
Almost any hosting company is going to send you angry emails when downloading public torrents, some may even terminate your services without warning then refuse to talk to you after the fact (looking at you contabo).
If you really want to host your own server for this I recommend looking for a “bulletproof” webhosting service, people running those services will just ignore letters from copyright holders.
Those servers probably have to be outside the western world to be able to refuse dmca letters.
You will be surprised to find that a lot of European nations actually don't give a shit about it. I sometimes proxy to a random European country to access a few websites which are unavailable in my country.
That's a good point I forgot to mention as well, thanks!
I know a lot of bullet proof hosts used to be in The Netherlands but now I'm not too sure about that bc I hear they're cracking down on copyright.
Mullvad will not work anymore for torrenting. They disabled port forwarding
Mullvad still works perfectly well for torrents, I'm downloading and seeding torrents now as of typing this.
It just won't work well for certain types of torrents and certain private trackers and things like that.
It does suck they took away that feature but I understand why they did it.
It can and will work, but it will not be optimal. You will be able to connect to other peers, but other peers will not be able to connect to you. This usually isn't a big deal, but it's not great in situations where there are not many peers, and you need every connection you can get.
If I remember correctly they will keep already set up ones but take away for new configs