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That’s what I said. VPNs are good for “location spoofing,” i.e. changing your web-facing IP address to a different region. VPNs are great for this purpose. The
by surround 6y ago
That’s what I said. VPNs are good for “location spoofing,” i.e. changing your web-facing IP address to a different region. VPNs are great for this purpose.
The issue is, VPN companies (Mozilla included) are marketing their service as one that improves your safety when it doesn’t.
- ryantgtg 6y agoThe value of location spoofing is to access geographically-restricted content (like a netflix show that is available through their service in Europe but not the US), not to avoid DMCA notices. VPNs are valuable for avoiding DMCA because it hides from your ISP (the entity serving you the notice) what you are torrenting.
- Dahoon 6y agoIf you live in a place where the ISP actually looks at what you torrent and does something about it then you clearly need a VPN. Luckily that mostly happens in places where a DMCA is the least of your worries, like eastern europe and the middle east.
- ryantgtg 6y agoI don't know anything about how frequently Eastern European and Middle East countries act on DMCA. But I do know that this frequently occurs with US ISPs.