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I'm VPN'd like a mo'fo now. Let them come looking for me at the old New York Port Authority building.
Any recommendations? Heh... I guess that would depend on what you value (ease of setup with regard to firewall and eliminating DNS leaks, speed/reliability, anonymity (logs), etc... I personally don't need full anonymity I figure, so transparency and ease of setup would be paramount.
Well, i work for a large communications company (in a department that would hear about this, or at least how to handle it) and no one has said anything and there has been no internal communications about it in my department at all.
I see a major fault in all this, it is going to cost the ISP's money, lots of money. They have to monitor traffic more closely and update their detection methods quite often (which is going to be low priority). It involves more bodies and/or more time, increasing costs. We all know that if something increases costs, it isn't going to last long.
It might work good for a month or two until the detection algorithms are out of date and don't include new content.
Do the six warnings have to be on six different days?If, after 6 warnings, you haven't done anything to fix your neighbor's hacking of your wifi, then I think there's not much of an argument.
Do the six warnings have to be on six different days?
Buddy got a red light ticket every single day for six days straight.
Problem was he was turning right on red, he thought legally, but it was hitting him on the way to work every morning. He wasn't informed of the problem until the first one was processed, and by then the chain of others was already behind it.
So your "six warnings", might be six simultaneous automated triggered alerts.
Has anyone considered to not just mooch? Pretty sure that'll solve the problem.
I wonder how long till VPN services become illegal, like torrent trackers. Both arn't designed for piracy, but both can be used for it.
Im going to keep torrenting, if i get any warnings from comcast, Ill fork over the extra $10-20 a month and use an offshore VPN and lower my comcast download speed to compensate.
I love how people bitch about bad music/movies being the reason for low sales but then in turn are happy to pirate it, and then presented with something like this the response is "fuck them, I'm going to keep pirating, even if I have to pay for an offshore VPN to keep getting my free shit".
I agree that producers put out a lot of shit, I agree they suck the life out of artists (who agreed to it, mind you), I agree piracy isn't the devil, I agree stupid penalties for piracy are... well... stupid.
BUT, why is the response never "well fuck it, lets not pirate their shit and not buy it either!!", it's always "this is shit... I'm gonna keep pirating".
Has anyone considered to not just mooch? Pretty sure that'll solve the problem.
So would not waiting a year after the movie was in theaters to release it in Blu-ray.
I've mentioned this a few times. Good example of how I WON'T be raising my imminent'y birthed firstborn.
Difference is, the movie companies have a right to hold on to their own property to increase its value when they do release it.
You don't have the right to mooch.
If you can't wait, can't afford it or are too lazy to save up, then you don't deserve it. (I don't necessarily mean YOU, specifically, just moochers in general.)
Just stop using torrents people. Switch to direct downloads. You can afford $10 a month if you can afford internets.
See, I don't get this argument now, or in the old system. The RIAA isn't just sending these things out to anyone. They aren't making IPs up out of the blue. How many people actually successfully defended RIAA suits in court? MAYBE a few percent.You say this as if the MPAA/RIAA won't rubber stamp and auto-send false positives regardless of the nature of torrent activity. They'll see the torrent protocol, and robo-rubber-stamp the complaint and not give a flip whether it is legit or not.
See, I don't get this argument now, or in the old system. The RIAA isn't just sending these things out to anyone. They aren't making IPs up out of the blue. How many people actually successfully defended RIAA suits in court? MAYBE a few percent.
The ISPs and the RIAA aren't in the business of wasting resources on false positives.
That said, I don't know what people are "legitimately" torrenting these days. Yea, there's the tongue in cheek 'linux distro' excuse, but no one on a home account is downloading that many to trigger this system. Besides, don't some game downloaders/updaters use torrent-like technology? That stuff hasn't gotten people in trouble before and I don't suspect it will all of a sudden.
People in this thread are disgusting. Full on entitlement attitude and Mememememe society in effect. You can justify whatever the hell bullshit you want, fact is you're breaking the law and regulations, and harming people in the process directly. Please at least be honest, you don't want to pay and you don't care about anyone but number 1.
We need to have stronger privacy and net neutrality regulations and we need to unfuck the entire copyright and patent system to serve the public good once again.
Or people can stop mooching, and the problem goes away.
Also, though off topic and better left elsewhere I think... I would argue that for the most part, copyright and patent law is working precisely as designed.
That's a flawed argument. The DRM is in place BECAUSE of pirating. Furthermore, a good portion of the market has shown that they are willing to deal with those DRM schemes (none of which are truly awful, at least the ones that have succeeded), and continue to pay for products that employ them (BluRays, DVDs, DRM-laden music, Ultraviolet etc).consumers might consider reducing torrent use if the content industry were to stop breaking their products with fubar drm and recognize some rational interpretation of the fair use doctrine.
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plaintiff- I would bring to your honor's attention exhibit A, a photograph clearly showing the defendant wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket. It is well established that this style of garb is parcel to CBS-Paramount's Fonzi (tm) media property.
judge- And the defendant does not posses a Fonzi (tm) license?
plaintiff- No your honor.
judge- I can't really see for sure, is it possible this is a bomber style jacket?
plaintiff- No your honor, please examine exhibits B and C. The absence of any insulation or insignia clearly place this jacket within CBS-Paramount's intellectual property. The bomber style jacket is parcel to Disney's James Dean (tm) property.
judge- Well, it looks pretty clear cut to me...when are these dirty identity pirates going to learn? I find in favor of the plaintiff. [smacks gavel] What to we have next?
bailiff- Time-Warner vs. the rock band “ghost of Dick Vaughn” for unlicensed use of the flat fifth in their song “requiem for liberty”.
judge- We ought to be able to clear this before lunch, bring them in.
your papers please
As long as corporations insist on trying to own all culture people are going to resist.
Silly child. Your pirate crap has nothing to do with oppression. And, culture? You are wanting to use theirs for entertainment for free, go make your own if you want to stop giving them influence.
I would, but art has always been derivative, mixing and expanding previous work. In the age of magnetic tape, and now digital editing software, the mashup has become a form unto itself. There is nowhere to hide from these rent seeking landlords of culture.
I've mentioned this a few times. Good example of how I WON'T be raising my imminent'y birthed firstborn.
Difference is, the movie companies have a right to hold on to their own property to increase its value when they do release it.
You don't have the right to mooch.
If you can't wait, can't afford it or are too lazy to save up, then you don't deserve it. (I don't necessarily mean YOU, specifically, just moochers in general.)