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Piracy advice (feddit.nl)
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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 118 points 2 weeks ago

If your country persecutes individual piracy. Mine doesn't.

[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 weeks ago

Our ISP sends 3 strike letters :(

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure our ISPs would advertise piracy if they could

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 66 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah there is no way Surfshark, NordVPN and other services are compromised and or straight up run by the NSA

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 92 points 2 weeks ago

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?

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 21 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] parody@lemmings.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

This is why I compose all my messages on an air gapped computer and send them out from my compound with couriers.

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

I personally just use a VPN that connects to NSA servers so they think it's themselves doing the torrenting.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

Bro I'm downloading Final Fantasy, not running a pedo marketplace. I will be fine.

[-] headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour mullvad vpn

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[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 48 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t use a VPN because my government has acknowledged that an IP address cannot identify what individual was using it.

[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 2 weeks ago

wouldn't trust that tbh

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[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 39 points 2 weeks ago

I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P I2P

[-] headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

watched the mental outlaw video i see

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[-] r00ty@kbin.life 34 points 2 weeks ago

Instructions unclear, VPN'd into my own home network.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago

Even Haru's billionaire ass can't afford all these subscriptions 😭

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

Who is the original artist?

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 14 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure about the artist, but these are characters from the game Persona 5 (Haru and Futaba)

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[-] Fl1ppyR34@ani.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

@negglartz on that place Elongated Musksticles ruined

https://x.com/neggoartz/status/1833956375367659551

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

A VPN is just essentially a change in ISP.

[-] sus@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Isn't torrenting legal in the Netherlands?

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 16 points 2 weeks ago

My country doesn't care, so it's not necessary

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago

I use Comcast VPN cheaper than mullvad /s

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[-] dan@upvote.au 13 points 1 week ago

And make sure it's a VPN that supports port forwarding. Sharing is caring.

or just use Usenet.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

i never hav to use one lmao

[-] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago
[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

ukraine, poland, no-one cares abt it here :p

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Haru asking Futaba where she has to type in her dad's credit card number

[-] AnokLola@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

And please don't use anime girls to refer to every fucking thing in the world

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean this is Persona 5 and this is 100% what Futaba would say and do

[-] variants@possumpat.io 7 points 2 weeks ago

I thought you don't need a VPN for things like usenet

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