If you want to avoid legal risks, but still love French content, consider:

In many regions, including France and the broader European Union, downloading copyrighted material without authorization is illegal. French regulatory bodies (such as Arcom, formerly HADOPI) actively monitor public P2P swarms. Because P2P file sharing requires users to upload pieces of the file while downloading, an individual's public IP address becomes visible to anyone else in that specific torrent swarm—including copyright enforcement agencies. The Cat-and-Mouse Game: Mirrors and Proxies

Because Torrent9 only hosts metadata (text files and strings of cryptographic code), the site owners historically argued they were not directly guilty of copyright infringement. However, global courts and copyright enforcement agencies have long rejected this distinction, viewing indexers as active facilitators of piracy. Legal Battles, Domain Hopping, and Mirror Sites

files or magnet links. It does not host the files themselves but facilitates peer-to-peer sharing. Common Search Terms

To prevent "IP leaks" (where your real IP escapes the VPN tunnel), go to your torrent client (qBittorrent is best for this).

For software and books, platforms like Project Gutenberg or official open-source software directories offer thousands of legal downloads. Conclusion