When I say used to I mean the days of limewire, napster, and sublimedirectory to name a few. Or IRC or even ICQ.
It’s because you didn’t pirate a VPN.
You wouldn’t download a VPN
People started getting consequences from their ISPs so they have to take measures to avoid that and those are not free. You’re welcome to still torrent without a VPN or seek out direct download sources but good luck with that.
Where’s the love for Usenet?
in my country you can torrent all you want. if I forget to turn on my VPN I might get a message from my ISP saying they got a copyright call, but they didn’t give my info.
Canada is still a piracy safe haven, I don’t use VPN. I get funni letters sometimes and laugh at them. Prosumer reseller ISP don’t give a dang. Penalty caps are so low that it’s basically malicious compliance at the Federal level, so nobody gets sued because there’s no money in it for the copyright trolls. Just have to avoid dealing directly with the telecom mafia: Rogers, Shaw, Telus.
Tbh I use direct download as a source more than torrents these days. There’s a lot of free hosts now that aren’t painful to use like in the past when you needed to pay a subscription to some company like Rapidshare to get anything done on sites like Warez-bb.
Private trackers?
Yeah, only normies use “VPN” to pirate.
Why is “VPN” in quotes? Do you think it’s a euphemism for something?
Here in the third world we keep on sailing
Mind if I ask you what country so I know which one we have solidarity with?
The high seas have always been a constant battle. Are you really asking why both sides keep trying harder?
Ah screw it. This early in the morning you piqued my interest. So yeah why both side keep trying harder?
Its the same kind of arms race that cybersecurity is going through, one side creates defenses, the attackers (all color hats) figure out bypasses and exploits, the defenders patch out the exploits, attackers find new exploits, defenders keep reacting, attackers keep finding new exploits, and the cycle keeps continuing. In an attempt to break the arms race, the defenders are going to turn to legislation to make engaging in the arms race illegal unless you’re certified.
Side note but I’m not making a value judgement on either side, there are defenders protecting bad people and attackers who are justified in their attacks and have released important information out to the public, but protecting your own information from malicious attackers is also super important, stuff like login info to critical infrastructure systems or your financial details so bad actors dont open up a dozen credit cards in your name and destroy your financial reputation needed to survive in this world (fuck credit scores but they are unfortunately part of our reality.)
Same sort of deal with copyright holders vs pirates, copyright holders are trying to protect what is legally theirs, and pirates are trying to bypass that. (Again no moral arguments here, this is just the nature of the conflict). Pirates gain access, copyright holders create more hurdles to the content, pirates gain access again, copyright does the same thing. Eventually they just keep throwing more legislation at the war to make privacy becomes increasingly expensive through the courts. At the end of the day, unlike cybersecurity, this piracy war wouldn’t exist if every piece of media created was commodified for massive profit. Steam is evidence of that.
soulseek is still around
I got a cease and desist letter that forced me to talk to a lawyer and start court proceedings which stretched over three years, to avoid paying a monthly income in “damages”, for torrenting The Hurt Locker (allegedly).
So now I use a VPN.In minecraft
The weird part is, it wouldn’t even have mattered if I did it or not.
I was living with roommates and the contract with the ISP for the house’s internet connection was in my name.
So according to German law at the time, I was legally on the hook for copyright violations by anyone on the shared WiFi.
By the time all the legalese letters back and forth were done and the opposing law firm would have had to officially charge me in court, the law had changed.
The old law would still have technically been applicable for my case, but I guess my push-back with a lawyer, and the risk of a judge being sick of the useless workload, made it too risky to be profitable for the copyright vultures.
Doesn’t cost me anything. I’ve never paid for a VPN. You don’t really need it unless you’re in a country that firewalls you.
or someone who flexes their “downloading skills” on everyone they meet.
many years ago a colleague of mine tried to flex on me without really knowing my position on ethics of piracy.
(i have no problem with as long as it’s about enabling access to media and art that would be inaccessible rather than making money. on the other hand, if an artist decides to do Spotify instead of Bandcamp i generally tend to respect their wish and avoid them like the plague.)
incidentally the same guy complained some months later that he got some notice from police.
The dream is still alive in small countries the corporations don’t care about! I sail in vast oceans without VPN.
Soooo this might be a bad time. But my pirate stream site is starting to suck (pop ups showed up/ things aren’t loading).
Anybody got a good one? AARGG
Find a movie on imdb and once on the page for it put play before imdb in the address bar.
Don’t know if we can mention any. Lemmy said something about legal reason but i think a DM or PM or whatever M is ok.
I don’t pay for a VPN but I do pay for a debrid. TorBox has a $3/month plan and it allows you to download torrents at 1Gbps from HTTPS endpoints with a no-logs policy.
