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>Surely the most numerous users of Tor are Americans and Russians downloading pirated media and porn.

Tor is extremely slow and laggy. It would be excruciating to try to watch a pirated video over Tor. Same with porn. Unless it's significantly illegal, both those activities would be better done over a VPN. As far as I know, no one has been arrested for just downloading pirated content.




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