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With most VPN providers you can use OpenVPN clients to connect to them. But if you are asking can i host an OpenVPN server for free and use it for piracy the answer is no. The entire point of a VPN is to conceal yourself and you are not accomplishing that if ypu are hosting it yourself. You need a VPN service.
Seconded here, at the bare minimum you need a VPS or similar. Quick detail here, if you say you are using it to "sail the seas". and you are talking about self hosting.
Point of a VPN for piracy purposes is best explained. In short, You connect to the VPN host, the VPN host connects to the tracker or whatever pages you are going to. Should an anti-piracy bot connect to the tracker and follow the leads, it will find the VPN instead of you, and hopefully the VPN isn't keeping logs and has enough people connecting to it that they can't keep a specific link to someone.
Problem with self hosting, is it kind of misses that value. If the same happens but instead of finding your computer, it leads them to... a computer in your living room. Well obviously the same is going to happen as if they found just you.
And even if you get a VPS, there is a money trail coming right back at you unless you pay with cryptocurrencies (and even with cryptocurrencies, it's not impossible to trace it back).
And there's nothing stopping the VPS provider from cancelling your service if they get too many inquiries from anti-piracy groups about traffic coming from your VPS and keeping the balance of the money you spent.