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I am trying to download files but am seeing strange behavior. When my VPN is not connected there are tons of seeders. As soon as I connect the VPN all the seeders disappear. Can someone tell me what is happening? TIA.

P.S. The captcha verification for this forum is horrible. It is very difficult to read most of the time.

Sorry for bouncing this back to the top but I am still having this problem and have gotten no replies.