Piracy advice : piracy

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 109 points 2 months ago

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

[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago

Our ISP sends 3 strike letters :(

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 15 points 2 months 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 2 months 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.

[-] princessnorah 6 points 2 months ago

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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[+] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 67 points 2 months ago

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[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 months 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?

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 31 points 2 months 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 22 points 2 months ago

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

[-] headerfile 17 points 2 months ago

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

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 11 points 2 months ago

what about proton or mullvad?

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

Are you suggesting that it's pointless to use a VPN?

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[-] Rogers@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] headerfile 10 points 2 months ago

watched the mental outlaw video i see

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, if you don't mind it possibly taking a week to download something... Really like the idea, but in practice it's very slow for something like that, unless you got a lot of seeders for something maybe.

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

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

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago

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

[-] AnokLola@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

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

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Who is the original artist?

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

@negglartz on that place Elongated Musksticles ruined

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

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

A VPN is just essentially a change in ISP.

[-] sus@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

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[-] dan@upvote.au 13 points 2 months ago

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

or just use Usenet.

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

I use Comcast VPN cheaper than mullvad /s

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 6 points 2 months ago

Nah, Verizon VPN is better

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

i never hav to use one lmao

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[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Old RuneScape Soundtrack: Sea Shanty2

[-] cupcakezealot 5 points 2 months ago

do i want to be her or date her?

[-] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] GameEnder@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

If your provider supports SSL and you actually turn it on then no technically don't need a VPN for Usenet.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago

this is dangerous advice. courts can still subpoena the usenet provider for your information.

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there's little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

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