Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy
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I'm not a judge, but isn't internet essentially a utility these days? Cutting someone off because of piracy seems like cutting off electricity or water because they did something illegal with it.
I'm some places in the States they will cut off your electricity or water for sharing with a neighbor that has had theirs shut off. I have seen both happen personally, and not in some back water state. They both happened in upstate NY.
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Don't they already do this in most of Europe?
Yeah it’s fucked up
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Pirate everything, death to the capitalists.
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I'm some places in the States they will cut off your electricity or water for sharing with a neighbor that has had theirs shut off. I have seen both happen personally, and not in some back water state. They both happened in upstate NY.
Cut off for sharing, or cut off for running illegal/unsafe/unlicensed wiring and plumbing connections?
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USCIS can deport a non-citizen for accusations of drug use, including weed.
Let that sink in.
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thank god i go to ireland to do all my torrenting.
i prefer to do mine in the czech republic, personally
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Is piracy AI scraping?
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And now I'm on a VPN because if they're just gonna cut people off for accusing of piracy they're gonna have to cut off everyone with a VPN.
TBH I should have been behind a VPN before
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That sink is a vampire, don't let it in
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This is actually why I usually install a VPS in whichever country I’m physically in—my end devices always appear to be connecting to something innocent in-country (like a corporate VPN). That VPS then does the double-hop out of the country so that the VPS also seems pretty innocent too.
I don’t think it’s actually more secure though since the VPS is in my name and it’s technically decrypting everything. But I’m a bit less paranoid about that. (I’m not doing tons of illegal shit anyway.)
Look at it this way. Who would you rather risk pissing off, your ISP or a VPS Hosting company?
put the qbittorrent-wireguard container on the vps.
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Protip for anyone unfamiliar: Mullvad really is the gold standard for a private VPN. If you just want to pirate shit and not get angry letters from your ISP, Nord or PIA will accomplish that. But if you REALLY want privacy, Mullvad is it.
Idk why but the simplicity of it has me convinced and so far it works well.
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low key hope this happens.
it's gonna be fuckin funny to watch all IT in the US grind to a halt because everyone who WFH can't work because their internet was cut off.
then a week into mandatory office returns someone will get the whole datacenter cut off because they're running torrents from their laptop.
dumb fucks are going after the worst people to fuck with.
- fieldworkers
- women
- gamers
- IT support
don't fuck with IT. they know what filthy shit you watch from home.
And they don't care what filthy shit you watch from home so long as they don't have to see it
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Protip for anyone unfamiliar: Mullvad really is the gold standard for a private VPN. If you just want to pirate shit and not get angry letters from your ISP, Nord or PIA will accomplish that. But if you REALLY want privacy, Mullvad is it.
I personally prefer Proton. They seem to get blocked less often.
(And yes I'm aware of the CEO controversy, he seems more like a Libertarian to me, not some right wing extremist)
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And now I'm on a VPN because if they're just gonna cut people off for accusing of piracy they're gonna have to cut off everyone with a VPN.
TBH I should have been behind a VPN before
Mullvad is the best $5 and change I spend each month.
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And now I'm on a VPN because if they're just gonna cut people off for accusing of piracy they're gonna have to cut off everyone with a VPN.
TBH I should have been behind a VPN before
I recommend AirVPN. Never had a problem w/ them & doesn’t require a special VPN client.
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What will they do when entire College campuses lose internet access because half their students are pirating text books
Isn't that the plan?
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What about legitimate torrented content? Are they going to outlaw the technology outright? Don't plenty of legitimate downloads use torrents to speed up software updates and such?
A load of game patchers use torrent tech to improve speeds. Lots of gamers torrent with out even realizing it
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What will they do when entire College campuses lose internet access because half their students are pirating text books
They will use it as another excuse to damage education.
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(Donald trump voice)
"We should hold all food companys liable for users violent crimes, this man stabbed another man to death with a spoon! 30 minutes before he ate kraft mac and cheese. It gave him the energy to violently stab this innocent man"Lets hope they got common sense
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Mullvad is the best $5 and change I spend each month.
I love Mullvad and used them for years, but without port forwarding, they're not the service you want for torrenting. Some alternatives like AirVPN or ProtonVPN are better suited for that stuff.
Before the haters jump in and tell me "it works fine fer me!" it's only working because the user on the other end, like myself, have port forwarding set up. Since you don't have it, you'll never connect to anyone else like yourself nor will they be able to connect to you.
Of course there are alternatives like streaming and Usenet but there are tradeoffs no matter what you pick.
