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Pirating movies has become so easy that people can almost not tell they are pirating movies. One example is popcorntime or webtorrent + finding the movie in Yi

Pirating movies has become so easy that people can almost not tell they are pirating movies. One example is popcorntime or webtorrent + finding the movie in Yify.

wkat4242 3y ago
Yes but be careful. In some countries like Germany with low consumer protections you will get extortion letters from random lawyers when you use popcorn time.
- yard2010 3y ago
  Always use a good vpn.
  - wkat4242 3y ago
    I do, yes. But I just wanted to point this out to those that don't know.
- Alifatisk 3y ago
  > In some countries like Germany with low consumer protections you will get extortion letters from random lawyers when you use popcorn time. I believe there was some cases in Sweden or Denmark aswell were users got those extortion letters aswell. Scary stuff, out of curiosity, how much do you have to torrent in order to be a target by these lawyers? I guess seeding those torrents makes you a bigger target?
  - roxil 3y ago
    As a recipient of such a letter, I can tell you that the amount you torrent isn't really the problem, it's about the specific content. It works like this: copyright lawyer company monitors torrent trackers, then goes to a copyright-friendly court/judge with a list of IP-addresses that were up/downloading the copyrighted content of the media company they represent, they get some kind of court order from the judge to pressure ISPs to give up information about users behind the IP-addresses. The letter I got was from Universal's lawyers and amongst the various movies I downloaded, all they cared about was the new "Dune". The letter was detailed with lots of lecturing, legalese, timestamps, info hash of the content and at the end they ask for 400€ or else they might escalate in court. I didn't want to pay or risk it, so there is another lawyer who specializes in these letters who you can pay 200€ to take care of things. I saw the whole thing as a lesson learned that yes, I am being surveilled and no, my ISP is not my friend, but an adversary who keeps logs and doesn't care much about protecting my privacy. From now on I do most of my browsing and all torrenting via Mullvad VPN, paid for with Monero.
  - wkat4242 3y ago
    Once is enough. They just need to catch your IP once. Like roxil said, they are looking for specific content usually. Mostly new releases. I guess this looks better in front of a judge too, instead of going to court over watching a blurry episode from a show from the 80s that has been rerun on free TV hundreds of itmes.
phone8675309 3y ago
Most of the people I know that pirate movies just watch them on pirate sites. There's a specific site for watching animation (including anime) that has a better interface and search than Crunchyroll and it's free. There are pop-up ads that are easily blocked with uBlock Origin.

Pirating movies has become so easy that people can almost not tell they are pirating movies. One example is popcorntime or webtorrent + finding the movie in Yify.

wkat4242 3y ago

Yes but be careful. In some countries like Germany with low consumer protections you will get extortion letters from random lawyers when you use popcorn time.

yard2010 3y ago
Always use a good vpn.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  I do, yes. But I just wanted to point this out to those that don't know.
Alifatisk 3y ago
> In some countries like Germany with low consumer protections you will get extortion letters from random lawyers when you use popcorn time. I believe there was some cases in Sweden or Denmark aswell were users got those extortion letters aswell. Scary stuff, out of curiosity, how much do you have to torrent in order to be a target by these lawyers? I guess seeding those torrents makes you a bigger target?
- roxil 3y ago
  As a recipient of such a letter, I can tell you that the amount you torrent isn't really the problem, it's about the specific content. It works like this: copyright lawyer company monitors torrent trackers, then goes to a copyright-friendly court/judge with a list of IP-addresses that were up/downloading the copyrighted content of the media company they represent, they get some kind of court order from the judge to pressure ISPs to give up information about users behind the IP-addresses. The letter I got was from Universal's lawyers and amongst the various movies I downloaded, all they cared about was the new "Dune". The letter was detailed with lots of lecturing, legalese, timestamps, info hash of the content and at the end they ask for 400€ or else they might escalate in court. I didn't want to pay or risk it, so there is another lawyer who specializes in these letters who you can pay 200€ to take care of things. I saw the whole thing as a lesson learned that yes, I am being surveilled and no, my ISP is not my friend, but an adversary who keeps logs and doesn't care much about protecting my privacy. From now on I do most of my browsing and all torrenting via Mullvad VPN, paid for with Monero.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  Once is enough. They just need to catch your IP once. Like roxil said, they are looking for specific content usually. Mostly new releases. I guess this looks better in front of a judge too, instead of going to court over watching a blurry episode from a show from the 80s that has been rerun on free TV hundreds of itmes.

phone8675309 3y ago

Most of the people I know that pirate movies just watch them on pirate sites. There's a specific site for watching animation (including anime) that has a better interface and search than Crunchyroll and it's free. There are pop-up ads that are easily blocked with uBlock Origin.