If you live in a country where nobody cares about torrents or piracy there's no huge need to use VPN for torrents unless you just want more privacy from your ISP. For such cases you want to torrent with a VPN to mask your real IP address. Copyright people can 'mask' as peers so they see all IPs that download a particular torrent, then they sent DMCA notices to the ISPs and ISP then sends those to users. If you live in a country with strict copyright laws (like Germany), your ISP may get DMCA notices for things that you illegally download which may result in you getting dragged into court and paying fines. ISP can't see what exactly you're torrenting when you bypass the VPN however they can see that you're downloading something. Google 'mullvad portforward' if you want more info on how to set it up, setup takes less than a minute. Don't forget to set up portforward too in this case. This will make it so that torrents will only work when you're connected to mullvad and your real IP will be hidden from other torrent peers.

If you do decide to switch to qbittorrent AND you want to use it with a VPN then make sure to set the network interface in qbit's advanced options from Any to Mullvad. If you want something closer to uTorrent in terms of looks check out qBitTorrent. uTorrent hasn't been good in ages and it's full of adware. Well first of all it's advisable to ditch utorrent for a better torrent client. Is it advisable to add uTorrent in that list Some apps/games may require adding more than one executable file for split tunnel to work though so keep that in mind if an app that you want to bypass VPN doesn't work in split tunnel mode. Anything you add to split tunnel will be excluded from the VPN.

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