In what appears to be an escalating incursion into a user’s digital privacy, a collective of film companies continue to implore the court to compel Reddit to surrender its users’ personal details. This move is part of an ongoing piracy liability case against Internet Service Providers. Reddit, however, steadfastly resists, staunchly defending its users’ rights to anonymous speech.

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    1 year ago

    Okay, I see this so much, but I have been pirating virtually all of my media downloading Linux ISOs (in the US) without a VPN for… 20 years?

    I’ve gotten about a dozen letters from my ISP and I just chuck ‘‘em in a bin.

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      1 year ago

      Haha, I used to do this (throw away the letters). Then one day my ISP shut off my internet for 24 hours (Verizon FIOS), so I got a VPN.

    • manapropos@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Depending on the ISP your service can be terminated for pirating. VPNs are cheap enough where you might as well just use one

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        1 year ago

        I’m on Xfinity and the only time I’ve gotten a warning was torrenting a movie from a public tracker without a VPN. I switched back to a private tracker and no issues even without a VPN.

        Your mileage may vary.

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          1 year ago

          I’m using surfshark, I got it a 3 year subscription on a discount a while back. On reddit they had r/vpndeals if I remember right, that was a good source to find discounts. Not sure if there’s a similar community here on Lemmy

    • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I still can’t figure out why ISPs are even doing this. They have no financial reason to stop piracy from happening.