If your country persecutes individual piracy. Mine doesn't.
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2024
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Our ISP sends 3 strike letters :(
Our ISPs are too cheap and lazy to even try looking. I still use I2P, but only because I need to justify my tin foil hats collection.
I have had like 14 while I was still in school here in canada. if things haven't changed you just ignore them because they can't do jack if you don't respond. Someone I worked with was blown away when I told him this because back home he was banned from all but the slowest ISP.
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That is supposedly the case in Australia as well but I haven't got a letter from telstra since around 2004 and I have never used a VPN and watch all my shows and movies via torrents so either I'm extremely lucky or they stopped bothering.
Though recently I started paying the $4 / month for Real Debrid for better streaming performance, which is just as good as a VPN for torrent anonymity. I used to be fundamentally against the idea of paying anything to pirate but honestly this is worth it, I've even been able to watch a few shows that had 0 seeders because they were previously cached.
Scroll down and there's a section about Australia on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club
Basically, they fucked it up so bad in Aus no one's ever tried again.
That says their error was trying American threats "we got you dead to rights, tell us your income and we'll tell you how much to pay our we'll sue for punitive damages"
Which isn't legal in Australia. They would have been ok if they had asked to send a letter saying "stop it or pay us a reasonable amount for one person viewing the film once" but of course actual damages aren't enough for film companies
They were too greedy.
Yeah basically. But part of why no one has tried again is because the judge made it very clear he wasn't going to just roll over and let them pull their BS. Including setting a bond of $600k for them to even try litigating it. Another part of it is that ISPs used to hand out IP addresses and PII in response to requests from media companies. This was found to be in breach of privacy laws and now those companies would have to apply for court orders, proving malfeasance, to get that information.
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Yeah there is no way Surfshark, NordVPN and other services are compromised and or straight up run by the NSA
let's say that VPNs are compromised and "they" know that you're downloading "illegally"
in order to prosecute, "they" have to prove you're a pirate and show how they know
would they compromise their backDoor to go after a tiny pirate?
you don't really need to scare quote they in this context. The NSA and similar organizations are real and operating at this scale right now.
Will they compromise their back door to go after a pirate? No. Will they collect data on you to profile you and your activities and use that in the future? Yes.
It is not if, it is when the digital police state is imposed will we know the real end state of this level of data collection. My warning about them is not just about the pirates, its about installing their software and letting them port mirror you and cache your dns calls for years to target you later.
This is why I compose all my messages on an air gapped computer and send them out from my compound with couriers.
I personally just use a VPN that connects to NSA servers so they think it's themselves doing the torrenting.
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Will they collect data on you to profile you and your activities and use that in the future? Yes.
And that's why the only thing I use my VPN for is piracy. Don't really have a good reason to push anything else through it.
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In fairness I doubt the NSA give a single solitary fuck about piracy and aren't about to give themselves up over a telesync rip of Beetlejuice 2.
But probably best to plan 9/11 part 2 over something a bit more secure.
Bro I'm downloading Final Fantasy, not running a pedo marketplace. I will be fine.
do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour mullvad vpn
Title is probably true, but also it's less likely for the NSA to leak your info than say an ISP that openly sells your info. I highly doubt that the NSA sees someone pirating Photoshop as a priority. VPNs can help with preventing a random ad from logging your real loose location, have built in DNS ad block, open up region locked content plus a list of other benefits.
VPNs absolutely help with general privacy, like not putting your personal phone number on a public registry. They are not intended to perfectly hide you from a super power's intelligence agency lol
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I don’t use a VPN because my government has acknowledged that an IP address cannot identify what individual was using it.
wouldn't trust that tbh
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watched the mental outlaw video i see
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Instructions unclear, VPN'd into my own home network.
Even Haru's billionaire ass can't afford all these subscriptions 😭
Who is the original artist?
Not sure about the artist, but these are characters from the game Persona 5 (Haru and Futaba)
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@negglartz on that place Elongated Musksticles ruined
A VPN is just essentially a change in ISP.
importantly it's (hopefully) an ISP that operates from a less copyright-happy country and isn't tied down to tons of expensive infrastructure and long-term contracts
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And make sure it's a VPN that supports port forwarding. Sharing is caring.
or just use Usenet.
I use Comcast VPN cheaper than mullvad /s
Nah, Verizon VPN is better
And please don't use anime girls to refer to every fucking thing in the world
I mean this is Persona 5 and this is 100% what Futaba would say and do
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