Then pirates will just get smarter. No way for them to see who is watching all of these movies with their VPN and Debrid service.
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Always make sure that QBT uses your VPN's network interface. I got some DMCA emails despite split-tunneling a VPN recently, and I realized it was bound to all interfaces by default - that's no good.
Lol.
Do ISPs like making money?
Then they shouldn't disconnect users who pirate.
I get notifications from my ISP all the time. They don't do anything though because they like the money I give them.
After switching to torbrowser for all my questionable searches and downloads, I no longer get notices from my ISP for like 10 years now
let's all fall on our sword to make sure Disney never loses a potential subscriber for Marvel Wars. Truly, we are defending the interests of the people here
This is how you get a new darknet.
In Germany and no doubt some other countries, private law firms can (on behalf of the copyright holders) request people's identity based on residential IP addresses and then send extortionist legal threats. Apparently an IP appearing on a public tracker can be enough to trigger it, without any confirmed data transfer.
VPNs are common and usually sufficient.
Don't public trackers add random IPs?
Yep there is no way they can block I2P, they have to block all of it.
All public wifi will be disconnected pretty quickly.
"the internet" is a necessity and requirement to function in society. You can't be denied access to it anymore, it would be disproportionate.
Exactly, sure disconnect customers from the Internet if they use it for entertainment... but once they use it to earn the income that pays their bills, it becomes questionable... and once it is in practice required to be a citizen, at the local, national or supra national level then it becomes a totally different question, to which the answer is basically no, you can't disconnect someone otherwise you remove their citizenship.
Pretty sure I have read somewhere that it is now also an official necessity in Germany
I think in Finland it is a basic utility like power and water. It is certainly priced like that.
According to the article this is the USA. How on brand.
Life depends more on accessing things online. This would just be punishing people beyond the scope of the case against people.
Being accused of will lose you access to basic infrastructure? Why not cut electricity too?
give it a few months, they're working up to it.
Don't give them ideas. Next they'll cut the blood stream to your brain.
Pretty sure they've already done that by not regulating social media better
Supreme Court: "One of us! One of us!"
lol, they'll have no customers! ISPs used to send 'warning' letters to customers in England but that's all.
Same in the US.
I got one once from something I know for sure I didn't download. I always assumed it was a friend of mine staying with us that was torrenting "Boss's Daughter Big Booty XXX" or whatever it was, but I never really wanted to ask.
If it's upheld, that's the precursor to full-blown info blackouts, just cut off internet to anyone 'accused' of wrongspeak against the powers that be, which is basically everyone.
This also sounds like SOPA reborn.
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Accused???
Well alrighty then, I hereby accuse the operators of donaldjtrump.com of piracy! Anybody else notice any piratical activity? Foxnews.com seems pretty fishy.
And OpenAI of course.
But it's not piracy if you use it for an LLM, right‽
Yes we are all training our LLMs. Perfectly legal.
Thanks for reminding me that I need to go train my LLM on the new season of Yellowjackets
So if Meta is convicted of pirating books for AI training, they lose all internet connectivity? 🧐
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4G piracy hub go brrrrr? Go ahead, disconnect me. I will get another SIM and resume piracy.
Several countries require proof of ID to purchase a SIM card.
Ah yes I keep forgetting about all of those countries that the US Supreme Court has jurisdiction over
I don't think eSIM providers do but I admit I didn't check. It'd be even more convenient, no need to leave your home to switch.
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