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Yes, an VPN is not private, because you trust your VPN provider instead your internet provider. But as a german, it's pretty clear that all internet providers would give your name and adress to everyone that asks for it, regardless if you download something through torrent or stream something without the license. I would bet, in near future you cant even download a 30 years old ROM for an emulator, without getting a mail from Nintendos lawyers.
And yes, i trust Mullvad more then my internet provider. All of my devices are connected to Mullvad and i had never any problems.
Interestingly, Mullvad was recently raided by the Swedish authorities. They've got documents from the police about the raid: no customer data compromised because there wasn't any.
The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request
Contains the documents and the relevant pieces of Swedish law. Now, up to anyone to decide if that's secure enough with other precautions.