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I’m not subscribing to streaming services.
I’ll ditch the idea of watching TV the moment my arr setup stop working.
I used to subscribe to streaming services but then they took all their content that I used to watch off - either to move to another streaming service or just "gone forever".
If they don't want the money I was giving them, why do they give a fuck if I pirate it? I tried to do things right and they told me they didn't want my money.
Exactly, I cancelled my Netflix subscription when I knew you can watch season 1 and 2 of a show but you must subscribe to another service to watch 3 and 4.
It was the dealbreaker to me.
Petty infighting between scene groups needs to stop. Fall together or fall apart.
Did we read the same article? This mentions nothing about infighting between groups.
So, a couple people went down because OpSec was broken by rival scene groups outing people’s identities; from there things started to crumble more and more.
"The most recent reported conviction saw a 37-year-old man receive a 60-day suspended prison sentence in September for pirating more than a thousand works through local BitTorrent trackers." Woaaah now, calm down there, killas. A hand can only be slapped so hard. Why even bother convicting at this point if one can pirate thousands of things and get a sentence like this? Surely they must realize how little of a deal it really is?
It is an action to emphasize the piracy is illegal and they will hunt you down for it using state resources, not matter the sentence.
This guy will be on their shitlist at least for a decade now. The next sentence would be times worse. But the best effect of this is that you sentence one guy, no matter how light the sentence is, then 1000 teens are afraid of ever thinking of piracy. Surely some of them will say "lol look at the joke of a sentence, so keep on pirating" but a lot won't.
What's better yet, a lot of those afraid teenagers will internalize piracy as both illegal and immoral.
Hugs mullvad
Were these people that were arrested not using a VPN?
yea, never understood this.
i use a very thoroughly tested no-logs vpn for everyday casual stuff but this isn't the first time i've seen people doing encodes get caught. i'm not a genius but i know how to read shit online, ask questions, and test my setup... you'd think people doing sketchier stuff would lean into the same a bit harder than I have.