A friend of mine uses your proxy server (proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com port 1080) in his Torrent client. Is that really necessary? I thought that I was already protected against spying eyes who are looking at what I do w/ my torrents by using PIA's VPN service? Or do I really need to set the proxy to down- and upload safely?

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In a word, 'NO'. You do not need to use a proxy server to torrent. Let me explain what your friend is doing. He is using the SOCKS5 Proxy option and using the Private Internet Access as a way of encrypting his traffic to and from the server.

The reason you do NOT need to do this is because you are already behind a proxy by using the VPN as a service. Let me explain what a VPN does.

So when you use a VPN, you install a client on your computer. The client takes all your traffic, and encrypts it in what is known as a 'wrapper'. It then sends your traffic through what's known as a 'tunnel'. What the term 'tunnel' means is that all your internet traffic is routed directly to the VPN's server with no chance of going anywhere else. Once your traffic reaches the VPN's server, pre-installed software on the server unencrypts your traffic (in other words, it takes off the 'wrapper'). It then sends your traffic out into the 'World Wide Web'.

Incoming traffic works much in the same way. When a website needs to send data to your computer, it gets sent first to the VPN's server. When the server receives the data, it encrypts it in a wrapper, and sends it into the 'tunnel' to be forwarded back to your computer. Once the data arrives at your computer, the VPN client you installed takes the data and unencrypts it (in other words it takes off the 'wrapper'). The data is then send to the correct place on your computer.

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So in conclusion, you are correct by saying that you are 'already protected against spying eyes who are looking at what I do w/ my torrents by using PIA's VPN service.' And to be honest, I can't think of any advantages as to why your friend has configured his torrent client to use PIA's SOCKS5 proxy vs. using a VPN. As far as I know, you'll get similar results with the exception that your traffic is guaranteed to be tunneled. With a proxy, you're at a slightly higher risk of traffic interception.