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Piracy advice (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 days ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 9 points 6 days ago

Old RuneScape Soundtrack: Sea Shanty2

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago

It's important to note that a VPN is simply somebody else's network in another location.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Haru asking Futaba where she has to type in her dad's credit card number

[-] variants@possumpat.io 7 points 6 days ago

I thought you don't need a VPN for things like usenet

[-] GameEnder@reddthat.com 7 points 6 days ago

If your provider supports SSL and you actually turn it on then no technically don't need a VPN for Usenet.

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[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Your ISP sees the connection to news.usenetserver.com and if they cared could get a court order to get your data from them. They can compel you to release your username and password.

You also need to protect yourself against future law and enforcement

[-] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

You can't keep secrets from the future.

Heard that once in a song about how all encryption is doomed to break against future math/computing power. Great eery phrase.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

You can keep secrets from the future. Future decryption won't help government see what you did in the now, the logs don't store the encrypted payload, only the end points and the user/ip

[-] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago

Meh my Usenet provider also partners with a VPN provider. Still costs me £5 a month for the VPN but I may as well use it, I like having a VPN

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there's little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there’s little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

it's probably for IP banning or something. Whitelist authorization, something silly like that.