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Piracy advice (feddit.nl)

submitted 5 days ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 118 points 5 days ago

If your country persecutes individual piracy. Mine doesn't.

[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 39 points 5 days ago

Our ISP sends 3 strike letters :(

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 33 points 5 days ago

Our ISPs are too cheap and lazy to even try looking. I still use I2P, but only because I need to justify my tin foil hats collection.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 13 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty sure our ISPs would advertise piracy if they could

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

I have had like 14 while I was still in school here in canada. if things haven't changed you just ignore them because they can't do jack if you don't respond. Someone I worked with was blown away when I told him this because back home he was banned from all but the slowest ISP.

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago

A VPN is just essentially a change in ISP.

[-] sus@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

importantly it's (hopefully) an ISP that operates from a less copyright-happy country and isn't tied down to tons of expensive infrastructure and long-term contracts

[-] dan@upvote.au 12 points 4 days ago

And make sure it's a VPN that supports port forwarding. Sharing is caring.

or just use Usenet.

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 65 points 5 days ago

Yeah there is no way Surfshark, NordVPN and other services are compromised and or straight up run by the NSA

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 92 points 5 days ago

let's say that VPNs are compromised and "they" know that you're downloading "illegally"

in order to prosecute, "they" have to prove you're a pirate and show how they know

would they compromise their backDoor to go after a tiny pirate?

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 21 points 5 days ago

you don't really need to scare quote they in this context. The NSA and similar organizations are real and operating at this scale right now.

Will they compromise their back door to go after a pirate? No. Will they collect data on you to profile you and your activities and use that in the future? Yes.

It is not if, it is when the digital police state is imposed will we know the real end state of this level of data collection. My warning about them is not just about the pirates, its about installing their software and letting them port mirror you and cache your dns calls for years to target you later.

[-] parody@lemmings.world 28 points 5 days ago

This is why I compose all my messages on an air gapped computer and send them out from my compound with couriers.

[-] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Unless you PGP-encrypt everything by hand you've just lost the fight

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago

I personally just use a VPN that connects to NSA servers so they think it's themselves doing the torrenting.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 5 days ago

In fairness I doubt the NSA give a single solitary fuck about piracy and aren't about to give themselves up over a telesync rip of Beetlejuice 2.

But probably best to plan 9/11 part 2 over something a bit more secure.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 21 points 5 days ago

Bro I'm downloading Final Fantasy, not running a pedo marketplace. I will be fine.

[-] headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 days ago

do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour mullvad vpn

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 days ago

what about proton or mullvad?

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[-] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

I don't think they care about piracy.

[-] Rogers@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Title is probably true, but also it's less likely for the NSA to leak your info than say an ISP that openly sells your info. I highly doubt that the NSA sees someone pirating Photoshop as a priority. VPNs can help with preventing a random ad from logging your real loose location, have built in DNS ad block, open up region locked content plus a list of other benefits.

VPNs absolutely help with general privacy, like not putting your personal phone number on a public registry. They are not intended to perfectly hide you from a super power's intelligence agency lol

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[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 48 points 5 days ago

I don’t use a VPN because my government has acknowledged that an IP address cannot identify what individual was using it.