I’m not doing piracy, I am merely training my AI!
The recent judgement did not, in fact, say that pirating was legal if you use the pirated material to train AI.
Call me when all these LLM get their internet cut off then.
Rich people skirting the law is nothing new.
lol, they’ll have no customers! ISPs used to send ‘warning’ letters to customers in England but that’s all.
Same in the US.
I got one once from something I know for sure I didn’t download. I always assumed it was a friend of mine staying with us that was torrenting “Boss’s Daughter Big Booty XXX” or whatever it was, but I never really wanted to ask.
What about legitimate torrented content? Are they going to outlaw the technology outright? Don’t plenty of legitimate downloads use torrents to speed up software updates and such?
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Hell, windows itself does it.
Yes. I share like 100+ Linux distros via torrents.
See you guys in I2P :)
We are going to end up with a super private and encrypted Internet because of it.
Good.
So this might be a good place to ask. How is a Trojan Proxy Server suited for anonymous piracy? Is it better or worse in case this passes?
Guess it’s time to go underground, sigh.
You should already be underground
Instructions unclear, now sitting in basement.
Don’t they already do this in most of Europe?
and it works just as well there as it would in the us…
by which i mean it doesn’t work
Yeah it’s fucked up
low key hope this happens.
it’s gonna be fuckin funny to watch all IT in the US grind to a halt because everyone who WFH can’t work because their internet was cut off.
then a week into mandatory office returns someone will get the whole datacenter cut off because they’re running torrents from their laptop.
dumb fucks are going after the worst people to fuck with.
- fieldworkers
- women
- gamers
- IT support
don’t fuck with IT. they know what filthy shit you watch from home.
And they don’t care what filthy shit you watch from home so long as they don’t have to see it
This is how you get a new darknet.
In Germany and no doubt some other countries, private law firms can (on behalf of the copyright holders) request people’s identity based on residential IP addresses and then send extortionist legal threats. Apparently an IP appearing on a public tracker can be enough to trigger it, without any confirmed data transfer.
VPNs are common and usually sufficient.
A boy downloaded a movie via torrent without using a VPN.
He died.
Good night! 😴
Don’t public trackers add random IPs?
They could. The protocol also supports IP spoofing, so doxing could also be a thing.
For individuals, it is a time consuming and costly legal process, whether justified or not. For the law firm, it costs a few cents per letter, but they get a few hundred (or more) euros when some sucker pays.
they try that in the US, using mass litigation, but it doesnt work, its usually designed to scare indivudal IP users to “turn them self in”
Yep there is no way they can block I2P, they have to block all of it.
thank god i go to ireland to do all my torrenting.
i prefer to do mine in the czech republic, personally
I nominate we test with out with the Zuck and his networks.
What will they do when entire College campuses lose internet access because half their students are pirating text books
They will use it as another excuse to damage education.
Isn’t that the plan?
Lol.
Do ISPs like making money?
Then they shouldn’t disconnect users who pirate.
I get notifications from my ISP all the time. They don’t do anything though because they like the money I give them.
After switching to torbrowser for all my questionable searches and downloads, I no longer get notices from my ISP for like 10 years now
I’ve been torrenting movies and software since 2000, no vpn, like I literally have torrented damn near everything I’ve watched for decades and have only gotten a notice once and it wasn’t even me. It was from a temporary roommate who had watched a movie on a pirate streaming site.
So that tells you how good and accurate their detection techniques are.
Their methods are fine, they literally just pirate the stuff themselves, see which IPs connect to them, then connect those to an ISP and notify them. The main reasons you wouldn’t get notices are getting lucky, not seeding much, not torrenting things that are being monitored, or having an ISP that doesn’t care much.
The single notice from the streaming site makes sense, pirate streaming sites are usually honeypots or heavily monitored.
My routine is always use piratebay, never use a pirate streaming site, no new or big studio releases, no porn, not seeding for long and choosing less active torrents. I can’t say much for how effective it is since I’ve never gotten hit so I can’t really experiment (I’ve had five or six ISPs in two different countries).
they literally just pirate the stuff themselves, see which IPs connect to them, then connect those to an ISP and notify them.
And I don’t even understand how this would hold up if it ever went to trial. How can an IP owner “pirate” their own IP? Even when they outsource it to services who do this they’re still giving permission for the IP to be distributed.
It’s like hiring someone to “steal” your own TV, putting it in a back alley and then accusing whoever takes it of being a thief.
It’s generally seen as okay on a similar level to undercover work. They do it for Investigation reasons, the torrent was already uploaded before they joined, their monitoring serves a legitimate law enforcement purpose, and they’re authorized by the copyright holder (themselves) to do it. They didn’t put the movie or whatever out there themselves.
This still won’t make me pay for Netflix
But it will make me pay for VPNs!
