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And.... then piracy.
by xur17 6y ago
And.... then piracy.
- droopyEyelids 6y agoI don't know if you follow the piracy news much, but the crackdown has only increased in viciousness. Tools like youtube-dl get banned from github, and private torrent servers are taken down, and the data the site has is used to subpoena email providers and ISPs for individuals to sue. I know we all come from the background of imagining information wants to be free, but it's only going to be another 20 years or so until having a general purpose computer in your house will be as suspicious as having a chemistry lab in your basement. The next step I'm expecting is some blurring of the line between civil and criminal penalties for piracy, and for police to seize someone's house because it was used for piracy.
- novok 6y agoUntil foreign VPN companies become illegal, all of that is solvable with a $2/month VPN subscription.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoNot in the long term since more and more services do VPN detection which is trivial any time a VPN has static servers. Though even residential proxies (https://luminati.io/ https://luminati.io/) are being detected with greater and greater frequency.
- novok 6y agoBittorrent & Piracy DGAF about VPNs
- cambalache 6y agoAnd yet here I am happily using Stremio in the 3rd world. Even then, with all the content available I average at most 1 episode per week. 99% of the content produced is crap. Youtube offers better free options, try the DW documentaries for example.
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- kyriakos 6y agoPiracy is still thriving. Living in a country that only Netflix and prime are available we use piracy for everything else that's worth it. The availability is still there as easy as it's always been.