Don't believe that you're always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.
Get a proper VPN, dammit!
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Don't believe that you're always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.
Get a proper VPN, dammit!
In the end, you can't out-tech the law. You need rights.
Your so-called "rights" won't hold to the pressure of massive media capital alone. It will erode away.
tech the law. You need rights. I'm not sure we can right-out the system, we probably need both.
I just wish they would advertise the truth. VPN's are basically useless nowadays for everything except torrenting. Most websites once they detect a VPN address will just shut down. Go ahead and give Imgur a try with it turned on to see what I mean.
Change your server to another location. ISP blocks VPN addresses that have been tagged.
Yo! What's a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.
I've heard proton and mullvad are pretty good
mullvad no longer portforwards, so probably not a good option to torrent with. proton is good if you use their whole ecosystem.
I do miss port forwarding but could you explain why its necessary for torrenting?
Proton does port forwarding
ProtonVPN
I personally like Mullvad, their practices, and their straightforward price of 5€/month. They’re not going to try to lure you in with discounts by subscribing for multiple months or years. Now if Mullvad has gone downhill, someone chime in.
Mullvad doesn't do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based
Ain't nobody going to talk about that guy in the thumbnail eating a CD while wearing that hat? Stock photos are weird.
That’s how true hackers read the data without a cd-rom drive.
i thought he was munching it into shape so it would fit the floppy drive.
I miss r/WTFstockPhotos
Create a Lemmy version! Be the change you want to see.
Stop copying my comments ;D
But actually: I don't want to mod it :/
That's okay, you can create subs and not mod them. Lemmy has a sort-of-mechanism to transfer modship already.
What do you mean, how do you pirate stuff online? Surely you got the hat on? I mean, I can see biting a hard drive might be more appropriate but the hat, come on, the hat!
And now with AI they can get even weirder, specially if they trained it on already weird stock photos.
When will Sony be sued for stealing their customer's legally purchased digital media
Internet is a utility and should be treated as such.
Up next Sony sues Pacific Gas & Electric for profiting off of piracy. All those torrents were powered by Pacific Gas & Electric.
If you were a true american you'd be for privatization of all utilties
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I agree but the average person doesn't even know what that means.
Spoons made me fat!
I live in Brazil, there are many problems here and stuff. But at least no one gives a fuck about piracy, lol. Never needed a VPN for torrents, not gonna need anytime soon.
If I'm not mistaken, Brazilian law allows people to download and make digital copies of copyrighted material, so long as it's for personal use. I should probably look into that sometime
It's like that in many countries. The USA is just kind of shit in this regard.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A federal appeals court today overturned a $1 billion piracy verdict that a jury handed down against cable Internet service provider Cox Communications in 2019.
If the correct legal standard had been used in the district court, "no reasonable jury could find that Cox received a direct financial benefit from its subscribers' infringement of Plaintiffs' copyrights," judges wrote.
The case began when Sony and other music copyright holders sued Cox, claiming that it didn't adequately fight piracy on its network and failed to terminate repeat infringers.
Cox's appeal was supported by advocacy groups concerned that the big-money judgment could force ISPs to disconnect more Internet users based merely on accusations of copyright infringement.
If not overturned, this decision will lead to an untold number of people losing vital Internet access as ISPs start to cut off more and more customers to avoid massive damages."
In today's 4th Circuit ruling, appeals court judges wrote that "Sony failed, as a matter of law, to prove that Cox profits directly from its subscribers' copyright infringement."
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