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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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Yo! What's a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.
Edit: looks like I need a new VPN...
I use private internet access (pia). It's reasonably priced, really good for the number of devices, and I don't believe they keep logs. At least it used to be that way, but I haven't checked that since I signed up a decade ago. I have had zero issues with anything or anyone while using it for any reason. Uptime is basically 100%. Also has mobile support if that matters.
I know the feeling, I used PIA for a while but moved to Mullvad.
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.
They have so far. It's still legal to use a VPN without verifying my identity. It's still legal, though difficult, to access the Internet anonymously. The local police department doesn't blanket monitor everyone's search history.
increasingly difficult tech solutions for privacy are a bandaid not a cure.
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.
~~US GDP is not 115 billion. My tiny European country's GDP is like 700 billion. The US's must be well into the trillions~~
~~Edit:~~
~~It's 28 trillion. That's 28'000 billions.~~
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
He said piracy costs the us GDP 115billion. Not that it is 115billion
Right, I misread
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.
It's like that in many countries. The USA is just kind of shit in this regard.