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Do we have an idea of how hard they're working to ID people? Did the people accused of pirating media do anything to hide themselves? Would a VPN have been enou
by overthemoon 2y ago
Do we have an idea of how hard they're working to ID people? Did the people accused of pirating media do anything to hide themselves? Would a VPN have been enough to make it too difficult or annoying to track them down?
Edit, from TFA: "“This decrease results from a plurality of factors, such as the positive impact of the graduated response procedure, the transformation of practices regarding the consumption of cultural works on the internet, the acceleration of the dissemination of legal offers during the year, or even increasing use of workaround solutions (VPNs) by Internet users,” the regulator explains."
- ExoticPearTree 2y agoI have this feeling that they go after seeders that go above a certain threshold. Looking into 2.6M individuals, determining that the offense is real, figure out the possible loss to the copyright holder, identifying the user, send all this paperwork to all the public prosecutors around the country and have them prosecute people for $100-$200 loss to some company doesn't seem feasible.
- luto 2y agoIn Germany they also go after small fish. The process is highly automated, so there is very little cost to the copyright holder.
- londons_explore 2y agoI would guess that if you can get payouts from some small chunk of users, you can then use those funds to 'reinvest' in tracking down and catching more. As soon as the process is sufficiently automated to be margin positive, you might as well scale it up to the whole population.
- ExoticPearTree 2y agoI think it has to do with the fact the ISPs are responding to requests automatically and don't fight for user privacy.
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- NikolaNovak 2y agoYour point is degraded when you use the term autistic as a stereotyped insult. At risk of doing the same kind of generalization, I'd venture a lot of people of varying degrees of autism spectrum on these forums, would probably agree with you on your overall moral stand, if you didn't needlessly drag us into this.
- exe34 2y agoI'm diagnosed autistic and I approve of this usage. I would be grateful if normies would refrain from getting offended on my behalf, I'm plenty offended enough by other things.
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- NikolaNovak 2y agoI 100% understand frustration of outsiders of a group being offended on some other groups behalf. I'm in a particularly progressive part of Canada so it happens a LOT! :=D If it helps at all, I was talking on behalf of myself, not yourself. That being said, the term "normies" also irks me, so clearly our differences have nothing to do with our position on spectrum :-> (neither "offends" me, but as per above, I automatically take less seriously the user of such words)
- exe34 2y agono two autists are alike.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoNope, this isn't pushed by the government, but legal circumstances here allow for cheap and automated detection and extortion of "offenders". I assume the right holder are making deals with big law firms specialized in the "Abmahnungs-Business", allowing them to track "offenders" on their behalf. Law firms then threaten to sue at courts sympathetic to rightholders, extort the "offenders" and give kickbacks to the rightholders.
- ssijak 2y agowhat IP you get when you have starlink?