your VPN guarantees nothing, but another monthly bill ( conspiracy )

submitted by iamlegion

unsuccessfully moved from the potential of an open web, to pay models in every aspect of usage. You pay more for internet/cable, monthly subscriptions, and security than you ever paid for basic telephone or cable services.

congrats on taking the bait. it's easier to sit on your ass and pay for fake security than it is to stand up for your personal security.

gobble gobble nom nom nom gobble. next law please!

Flat_Earth-Fat_Girth

THe earth is flat. F vpn. F all the bills, let's party and enslave the demons further.

Armpit_and_Ass

Having a VPN beats getting DMCA notices three or five times a week from downloading movies and TV shows.

B3bomber

Tell them you are a gamer. Games often come with peer to peer (torrent) patching and sometimes outright only exist on a torrent as their release. The silence afterwards is golden. When that happens a lot of IP addresses are going to overlap because it is part of the DHT and who is actually seeding what becomes a very messy issue.

They really aren't very thorough in checking those hashes because that requires having the entire file and the process for checking a 1+ GB file, even on a SSD, is not fast. That can be 10-30 minutes per file. Doing this shit takes up huge amounts of resources and they do not want to admit it and just use some tiny ass chunk of a file and pray it doesn't match any other file in existance (fat chance).

Armpit_and_Ass

That's not how DMCA notices work. They are accompanied with a filename and the amount of data uploaded (down loading for TV shows isn't the "crime" - up loading it is). I can't exactly claim I'm downloading game patches when the complainant is NBCUniversal and the cited filename is COLONY.S02E03.1080P.SADPANDA.

B3bomber

Another note if they are trying to nail you on a series: Time-shifting. Especially if it does not exist on DVD yet.

Know your enemy and the presidents set in court. Having those overturned is something they would love. Make sure to keep adding to pile of "Nope, that shit is not happening".

un1ty

Not usually pedantic, but

Know your enemy and the presidents set in court.

You mean 'precedents' set in court.

B3bomber

Going to blame that one on the browser's spell check and then me for not catching it. It's not quite auto-correct but the suggestions aren't always the right one either.

Armpit_and_Ass

All this implies that I feel like missing however much work and spending however many thousands of dollars to fight the jew in court when I could just pay thirty five bucks a year for a VPN and not have to worry about any of it.

B3bomber

Tell them to provide proof because you have no knowledge of what they claim. IP address != person (this is something they really try to erode).

There are also torrent applications that allow 0 upload.

Armpit_and_Ass

Tell them to provide proof because you have no knowledge of what they claim. IP address != person

See above.

There are also torrent applications that allow 0 upload.

I think just about any torrent app out there, you can set the ratio to zero and all you send upstream is the overhead. Kind of a dickish thing to do, but yeah, totally possible. My year subscription to my VPN just re-upped, so I'm good until next year this time.

o0shad0o

The problem with vpn is, the owner of the endpoint is also free to sell your information, which if you're paying via paypal or credit card, is also potentially damaging.

If you can break that link, though... I wonder how many vpn services will take bitcoin or the like and not require personal info?

ansipizza

a VPN can make sense or not depending on your threat model

Le_Squish

Free open web payed for by who? That infrastructure takes real people and money to maintain.

Also, I pay less for faster internet connection and VPN now that I did for just the connection 5 years ago.