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Don't believe that you're always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.
Get a proper VPN, dammit!
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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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.
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tech the law. You need rights. I'm not sure we can right-out the system, we probably need both.
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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.
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Yo! What's a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.
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
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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.
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I agree but the average person doesn't even know what that means.
If you were a true american you'd be for privatization of all utilties
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Billion? What are they smoking???
Ikr? It's like they're counting every act of digital piracy ever to be their lost profits when that's obviously not the case.
It's not "like", that has been the argument with these piracy cases for ages. If I pirate 100 movies, it obviously means that if I couldn't have I would have gone to the shop to buy each and every one of them. It's even worse for anyone caught distributing the downloads, where a site host can be hit with this logic for every user download ever.
Apparently these days they are claiming that movie and TV piracy costs the US film industry $29-71 billion a year and the US GDP a cool $115 billion in total
Because, you know, we have all that money just floating in our pockets now thanks to piracy.
Video game piracy has led to more purchases from me, because I'll download a game to try on a whim that I wouldn't have purchased, find out that's it really good and buy it
It has been shown that pirates spend more on media than anyone else, so companies are effectively attacking their best customers because they are short sighted idiots
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Media Corporations should not have a say in disconnecting users from the internet based on copyright infringement. The right to social participation is part of a basic human right - self-determination. Today, the majority of interactions with society involve communication via internet in one way or another, so that access to the internet is vital for enabling social participation.
Yeah, it's somehow comparable to a scenario where they had the power to decide you can't use uber/taxi, or postal services, because you used it to transport the HDD you're using for your private collection of copyright-protected media.
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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
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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."
The original article contains 543 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 68%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
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Ain't nobody going to talk about that guy in the thumbnail eating a CD while wearing that hat? Stock photos are weird.
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