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The Next (De)Generation (media.piefed.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 68 points 8 months ago (20 children)

Yep, in my country it’s illegal to provide copyrighted material, but it’s legal to download for personal use. Sorry.

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    That's what VPNs are there for! Ze German setup: gluetun and qbittorrent via docker, qbittorrent only going over gluetuns network.

    This way we can return what we take tenfold and still come out on top!

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Once you've had a legal letter due to an accident and over eager lawyers with easily costs beginning at several thousands you might change your opinion.

    And yes, I had that. For 3 hashes of 3 files of a TV series.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No it doesn't. Because it's not an opinion but a description on how to not get into the situation you've described - i.e. about personal security.

    What I've described prevents a link between you and your online actions - that's the whole point. It's the defense against surveillance and can be applied on situations with way higher risk than just a fine.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Okay, I think we're on the same side here, I was just at a technicality.

    We need to fix using technical avoidance and fix the law and surveillance.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Oh yeah! It's sad that users have to have a technical education to use the Internet if laws and what at least I perceive as "right" fundamentally differ.

    At least for the moment it's only copy right for me personally - there are countries and laws where this need is way more fundamental :(

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    As long as the VPN isn't a front for residential proxies and routing bot traffic over your endpoint, doing god knows what. If they've been heavily advertised at some point, they most likely are.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What sketchy ass VPN's have you been using?

    Get something from a well known provider like Proton, iVPN, or Mullvad.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Proton and Mullvad are probably fine yeah. Nord, Surfshark and Express are definitely very sus though, Nord even has known ties to Oxylabs.

    Torrenting for personal use is legal where I live so I don't have to use any, I'm just saying be mindful if you do.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    "most of them are (if advertised heavily)" is quite a claim without data to back it up.

    At least for the one I tested none of them sent additional traffic over my connection. That's just one data point and I only looked to ones with port forwarding but still far away from your claim.

    There are a shitload of VPN tests out there and testing id your connection gets used by third parties for not traffic is even possible for a layperson.

    Please stop fear mongering without remedies or specifics.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Eh, "thing I really want, but provided for free" combined with "thing we really want you to use, for free" -

    We should maybe put fear mongering directly on that, I think. Free things, that cost real money to provide, that cost no money to use - we should maybe fear monger a little.

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