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ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So I've rented a server for years. It's in the US and it's a couple bucks a month. It's fun to play with and I use it however I want. I've had an email server, a next cloud instance, and an open VPN instance to name a few things on it. Well I decided to connect a torrent client from my home to the openvpn instance on my server to see if I could do it. It worked really well until the company I rent from forwarded the DMCA hit back to me for downloading Rick and Morty. I should've known better but I thought a nameless faceless server farm wouldn't be worth the hassle of a DMCA but I was wrong.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

you paid for that with an identity attached im guessing, i'm not really sure what else you expected to be honest.

[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

whispers quietly in your ear: “Usenet”

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Use.....net? Buddy, we're ALL using the net right now!

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Lol, I've been on that train for a decade. I just wanted to try using my own personal VPN server to torrent which kinda defeats the purpose of a VPN I guess.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You chose the wrong provider lol

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty much all cloud providers monitor their servers for piracy and malware distribution/downloads.

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, but it wasn't the cloud provider that caught it. They just forwarded the letter to me from the company that monitors torrent swarms and records IPs.