chocolate_mintute_man

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Apparent Crackdowns on piracy from VC money drying up? (lemmynsfw.com)
 

As per title, I've been thinking, Tech has been seeing a downturn due to investor money divesting, perhaps that's part of the source of pressure for crackdowns on piracy, in addition to youtube restricting ad blockers, and other enshittification around other streaming media (whether it is behind reddit's enshittification is perhaps a different convo)

Survivability of an r/Megalinks community on Lemmy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] chocolate_mintute_man@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure I saw a thing from the instance admin that a sufficiently anonymous host costs about 3x as much as whatever he was using, and would need more donations prior.

[Rant] The people - or rather the attitude - of r/piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] chocolate_mintute_man@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 year ago

For hire private 50 cent party. Typical PR move, beyond just Reddit. A statement like

You’re shilling for a different company lmfao…pot calling the kettle black…

is probably written by someone who doesn't know or care about the details of what's been happening. Which means they're probably either using a script, or making assumptions to just do their job. The fact that decentralised communication is a far cry from corporations is completely missed because they probably just don't know.

Do you find piracy more fun than consuming the pirated content? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] chocolate_mintute_man@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ham radio enthusiasts will start feeling very pleased with themselves then. Until jammers are brought in anyway.

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Mullvad axing port forwarding, where to? (lemmynsfw.com)
 

I'm considering ProtonVPN to replace mullvad as they do have port forwarding for torrenting. I also did a quick search for VPN communities, but didn't find any. Maybe just not from my instance.

Just wondering if they'll end up axing port forwarding, if I pay for a extended length plan and then they axe the feature, I will have wasted quite a bit of money. At least with mullvad, it was monthly anyway, so not much to lose.