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One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It's not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don't even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?"

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 183 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Don't believe that you're always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.

Get a proper VPN, dammit!

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 77 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

In the end, you can't out-tech the law. You need rights.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your so-called "rights" won't hold to the pressure of massive media capital alone. It will erode away.

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

tech the law. You need rights. I'm not sure we can right-out the system, we probably need both.

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I just wish they would advertise the truth. VPN's are basically useless nowadays for everything except torrenting. Most websites once they detect a VPN address will just shut down. Go ahead and give Imgur a try with it turned on to see what I mean.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Change your server to another location. ISP blocks VPN addresses that have been tagged.

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use a VPN constantly and sadly a lot of sites add known VPN ip's to a ban list, I just reconnect my VPN and usually I get a good address but yea it sucks

[–] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Yo! What's a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.

[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've heard proton and mullvad are pretty good

[–] iliketrains@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

mullvad no longer portforwards, so probably not a good option to torrent with. proton is good if you use their whole ecosystem.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Proton does port forwarding

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I do miss port forwarding but could you explain why its necessary for torrenting?

[–] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago
[–] UnfortunateTwist@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I personally like Mullvad, their practices, and their straightforward price of 5€/month. They’re not going to try to lure you in with discounts by subscribing for multiple months or years. Now if Mullvad has gone downhill, someone chime in.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 9 months ago

Mullvad doesn't do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

Just self-host a VPN on a VPS so you can enable disk encryption and disable logging.

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