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Is a selfhosted VPN viable for piracy?
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Yes, but you have to keep in mind part of the point of the VPN is so that it's not running on your home network and exposing your home IP. Having an RPI or laptop running OpenVPN server from your home isn't going to help you in terms of privacy when you're just exposing your home IP. Also, running your own VPN means you will have a dedicated IP which will be tied to you versus running a commercial VPN which would have shared IPs (but likely wouldn't offer port-forwarding so it would be worthless for seedboxes).
What I do on mine is rent a cheap VPS with unlimited bandwidth, I run OpenVPN server on that VPS using Nyr’s openvpn-install script and then on my local seedbox server I connect to my OpenVPN server. I have qbittorrent-nox listening on the tun0 interface on my local seedbox, and then on my OpenVPN server VPS I have an iptables prerouting rule to route traffic from the inbound torrent port to my local seedbox server.
It works very well for me, even though I only use private trackers so it's overkill in my case.