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If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs a
by stjohnswarts 4y ago
If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.
- hackernewds 4y agoWhat are good VPNs to use?
- jerojero 4y agoMullvand is the best I've found. It's a bit expensive though.
- Crespyl 4y agoI'll second the Mullvad recommendation. I don't even care that much about torrents or geo-locked stuff, I just trust them more than my ISP. Setup was incredibly smooth and straightforward. IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser.
- brewdad 4y agoAgreed. I was a happy Mullvad customer for a few years until Proton offered me a deal that was too good to pass up. I like to change up my VPN provider and/or account every couple of years anyway so I'll probably go back to Mullvad when my current term is up.
- Dylan16807 4y ago> IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser. Which is a nice thing but you can't forward ports, and forwarding ports is a big benefit Mullvad has especially for torrents.
- detritus 4y agoI'll third Mullvad and I don't think EUR5 a month is particularly expensive.
- jerojero 4y agoWell, you can get more shoddy VPNs for like 2 euros a month.
- dreen 4y agoI used Algo to make my own, it builds a VPN server on your host. If you choose to host on digitalocean the script sets everything up via API and you're done in minutes. https://github.com/trailofbits/algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
- yberreby 4y agoI reckon it is against DigitalOcean's terms of service to seed copyrighted content. They forward DMCA complaints and will threaten to deactivate your account if you disregard warnings.
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- kyruzic 4y agoOr just live somewhere where consuming copyrighted content isn't a crime
- deltaonefour 4y agoYeah or change the laws everywhere so copyright isn't a crime. Easy peasy.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI live in a country where that will never happen
- seoaeu 4y agoSo either rent a server in some country that doesn’t recognize copyright law, or uproot your entire life and move there? Why would anyone choose the second option?
- permo-w 4y agothe UK would be a good example of what they're referring to. in the UK there's absolutely no enforcement of consumer internet piracy laws whatsoever
- budafish 4y agoWait. Is this true? As in they have laws they just don't enforce them?
- ugjka 4y agoYou get fined by your ISP (cough Virgin cough)
- nsteel 4y agoThere's more of a focus on "commercial-scale" pirates. There used to be fines handed out to individuals but I thought they had given up on that a while back, but maybe not: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/09/customers-of-virgin-media-and-other-uk-isps-hit-by-piracy-letters.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/09/customers-of-v... > As we said earlier, such campaigns don’t have a terribly strong history of success in the UK. The courts have also previously warned such firms to be very careful about the use of threatening language, given that those being targeted are not yet proven to be guilty of what they are accused. > Voltage seems to require the letter recipients’ to convince the firm that they weren’t responsible, but in law, the burden of proof is normally on Voltage to prove that the recipient is the one responsible and not the other way around. Also see: * https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-its-a-crime-uk-govt-ignored-warnings-now-families-pay-the-price-220601/ https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-its-a-crime-uk-govt-ignored-... * https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/shipwrecking-online-pirates-we-cant-wait-for-a-change-in-the-wind-we-need-to-adjust-their-sails https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/shipwrecking-online-... * https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/new-law-to-deter-software-piracy-in-the-uk https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/new-law-to-deter-...
- whimsicalism 4y agoOr a seedbox.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoPopcornTime is an app that lets you stream torrents as they're downloading, so a seedbox-like setup probably wouldn't be viable for this.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoYep you would have to set up a robosync with your seedbox over sftp or something similar.
- EnKopVand 4y agoThis is good advice, but it should probably be extended by saying that the VPN you chose matters. At least around here many VPN are just as inclined to share your internet usage with law enforcement and/or the law firms sending out those letters as ISPs are. So you gotta make sure you use a VPN that doesn’t out you to the authorities, and, can’t be made to do so.
- baby 4y agoHas anyone ever been fined or dropped by their ISPs though? I must have got like 5 letters for downloading movies and nothing else ever happened.
- catchclose8919 4y ago...most IPS in most contries are just OK with piracy ...use proper VPNs for stuff that needs real security, enjoy your entertainment in peace (sure, if you're into weird kinds of pr0n). Most ppl who occasionally pirate also pay for content and have Netflix substrictions and stuff anyway (most artists do get payed - or at least some company gets paid for their work...), and those who don't would just pirate anyway, just switch ISP, so nothing gained by this. (Side note: US seems like such a dystopian place nowaday... wasn't it "land of the free" or smth. And I'm comparing to like developed countries in Western Europe and Asia, not freakin Russia or Afganistan!) You're just repeating the scaremongering that VPN providers use to sell their insecure s, please stop!
- freemint 4y agoDo not use VPNs for things that require real security. Use Tor!
- catchclose8919 4y agoTor + (~secure) VPN, but most things like pirating and pr0n DON'T require 'real' security! You want privacy mainly and that's orthogonal to security. If privacy is not enough and you need secrecy... well, just use your botnet as a VPN and from that get to Tor! (You do own a botnet in this case, that's what you need the secrecy for :P ...otherwise you'd have specialists hired for this at your disposal, or you'd be the specialist providing it to someone else).
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- rpastuszak 4y agoWould something like Private Relay be good enough, or should I just use Mullvad?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI would say use Mullvad or ExpressVPN. That said I don't have a clue what Private Relay is
- dncornholio 4y agoInstead of calling your ISP, they will call your VPN provider.. VPN doesn't hide your ip, it only makes it harder to look up. I don't think VPN protects you like people think they do. I don't say you shouldn't use one, but I will say that the most popular VPN providers are probably already backdoored by the US government.
- funshed 4y agoYou trust your mobile phone data to some sketchy VPN provider but not your Local ISP?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoYou have never dealt with US ISPs I see... We have usually 1 or 2 ISPs and they are all spying on you for the MPAA and RIAA. So you clearly don't know what you're talking about here.
- anewpersonality 4y agoIs there an easy way to run a single app through a VPN?