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F4rt5 posted:Not over here they don't. They just have to forward the complaint. The companies will have to sue me personally or get the police involved. Ah, gotcha, you lucky duck. Thankfully since I started bouncing through a couple VPNs I haven't had an issue again.
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F4rt5 posted:I don't even use VPN for torrents, but qBittorrent is set up to accept encrypted only... And over here if MPAA snoops you just get a letter from your ISP that you ignore anyway (it's been years since the last one though) I also don't use a VPN and haven't had a letter since 2008. I don't know why I get away with it.
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Freakazoid_ posted:I also don't use a VPN and haven't had a letter since 2008. I don't know why I get away with it.
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right, the main way you're going to get popped for torrenting is if you're on a public tracker for some hot property like a recently released movie. an agent of the copyright holder will get a list of all IPs on the torrent then start matching them to locations, and if one shows up in a known jurisdiction with a known ISP they'll request the ISP find the assigned IP and send you a nastygram about it use a private tracker, or only torrent obscure poo poo that people don't care to police, or obscure your IP, and its more trouble than its worth for the ISP to bother you. they know that nearly all of their torrent traffic is illegal but if you give them plausible deniability then they aren't going to care. also some ISPs just dont give a poo poo at all unless you're causing a big headache like being an obvious hub for piracy. the RIAA taught everyone that going after individual pirates is an extreme burden that does nothing to stop piracy, so the focus is more on catching the sources of pirated files rather than the consumers Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:use a private tracker, or only torrent obscure poo poo that people don't care to police, or obscure your IP, and its more trouble than its worth for the ISP to bother you. they know that nearly all of their torrent traffic is illegal but if you give them plausible deniability then they aren't going to care. also some ISPs just dont give a poo poo at all unless you're causing a big headache like being an obvious hub for piracy. the RIAA taught everyone that going after individual pirates is an extreme burden that does nothing to stop piracy, so the focus is more on catching the sources of pirated files rather than the consumers That depends, in some legislatures fining pirates is a very profitable business. Key is knowing where you yourself are in the eco-system.
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Oct 8, 2021 18:44
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I just always use a VPN for torrents, figure that's good enough.
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Oct 8, 2021 18:50
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If there have been cases of VPN:s outing pirates (they do out criminals all the loving time, despite what they say) I've never heard of them.
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Oct 8, 2021 18:51
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SimonChris posted:My favorite is the start-up that does DoS attacks on the IRS. Anyone know where I can rent a guillotine?
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no hay camino posted:Anyone know where I can rent a guillotine? Use Thermidr, it's a guillotine-share app that lets you guillotine with whoever's in the area!  Jasper Tin Neck posted:Well, in addition to markets there are really only nine other methods to allocate scarce resources: The problem is that this is meant to be a service for people who do not have enough money to pay a tax accountant themselves, or even premium versions of TurboTax that let you talk with people who nominally should know. It's just a way to squeeze another $5 out of someone who has to use a free filing system and cannot otherwise afford the help. The market is already allocated, the intentional utter loving lack of funding is the real problem here.
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Volmarias posted:The problem is that this is meant to be a service for people who do not have enough money to pay a tax accountant themselves, or even premium versions of TurboTax that let you talk with people who nominally should know. It's just a way to squeeze another $5 out of someone who has to use a free filing system and cannot otherwise afford the help. The market is already allocated, the intentional utter loving lack of funding is the real problem here. That's not what the article said. As I recall they were targeting tax professionals that needed to talk to the IRS to resolve issues on behalf of clients.
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Motronic posted:That's not what the article said. As I recall they were targeting tax professionals that needed to talk to the IRS to resolve issues on behalf of clients. thats their target audience, according to the guaranteed to be 100% truthful and complete article. that does not mean there are no added effects
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MiddleOne posted:That depends, in some legislatures fining pirates is a very profitable business. Key is knowing where you yourself are in the eco-system. They send you a letter telling you you pirated something and demand money - something around $800-1000. This isn't a fine and they hold no legal power over you, it's just someone asking you to voluntarily give them money. It will be dressed in legal language to make it look like it's something more, though. There's no burden of any kind of proof. They tell you they'll sue if you don't pay, and many people will pay because they're scared of court costs. Here in Finland there are several companies doing this and only one is an actual law firm that might sue people. They do it vanishingly rarely, with the aim to make examples of a few people. The actual fines placed by the court are much smaller than what the extortion letters demand, but if you lose, you might take tens of thousands of euros in court costs. They can take the risk and you probably can't, so you'll pay up. At least, you might pay up if you don't know how rarely they sue anyone. Many of these companies are one man operations and to my knowledge none but the one actual law firm has ever taken anyone to court. Their entire business is sending these letters and raking in the money from scared people. If you don't pay, they can keep sending increasingly threatening letters for years in to keep up the stress and try to make you crack. If you still don't pay, they eventually go away. Elukka fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Oct 9, 2021 |
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As an expat trying to use streaming services from my home country, I've found VPNs difficult because they're always blocked so you have to cycle through the servers all the time looking for the one they haven't blocked yet. They also block known IPs of cloud providers so I couldn't get it to work rolling our own either. The best bet is residential IPs. There are apparently legal services that provide this (supposedly for webdev testing purposes I think) but what we eventually did is set up an RPi with PiVPN at a family members place. Been smooth streaming ever since. We do have to toggle it all the time depending on what we want to watch though
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Elukka posted:There is also an extortion business model that largely functions apart from laws, and works anywhere as long as it's theoretically possible to nail the target in court. They do it vanishingly rarely because its starting to become difficult to actually prove the case and they had a couple instances where they lost and were forced to pay the defense costs.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:As an expat trying to use streaming services from my home country, I've found VPNs difficult because they're always blocked so you have to cycle through the servers all the time looking for the one they haven't blocked yet. They also block known IPs of cloud providers so I couldn't get it to work rolling our own either. theres some Schadenfreude that occasionally happens when they mistakenly block residential IP blocks and suddenly they get a bunch of angry bird posts ., phone calls and emails. LOLfucking media companies making the same mistake forever. just make it as easy as possible to watch and people will go to you. but whatever got to mixmax blood from a stone for highest quatery profit numbers.
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PhazonLink posted:suddenly they get a bunch of angry bird posts ., Is this adjacent to bird law?
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PhazonLink posted:theres some Schadenfreude that occasionally happens when they mistakenly block residential IP blocks and suddenly they get a bunch of angry bird posts ., phone calls and emails. I’d argue that access to media is the easiest it has ever been.
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Baronash posted:I’d argue that access to media is the easiest it has ever been. There's a lot of annoying bullshit still. I've been trying to find a few BBC shows and there doesn't seem to be a way to legally watch them in America except for finding a cutting-edge VPN that they haven't blocked yet.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:There's a lot of annoying bullshit still. I've been trying to find a few BBC shows and there doesn't seem to be a way to legally watch them in America except for finding a cutting-edge VPN that they haven't blocked yet. ... Can't you just subscribe to BBC America and get it all at this point?
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Just checked since I actually forgot to look into that back then, but sadly no, it sucks. It's a limited set of shows for streaming. Specifically I was looking for more seasons of Repair Shop and similar shows to set aside for my parents and all of that is tied up in rights hell apparently.
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Or be like Australia where the big services don't even operate. We do have Netflix - but it only has about a third of the content as the US one. For most of the stuff I watch, there is literally no way for me to do it legally. I'd love to give the creators my money, if only they'd let me. EDIT: Apparently Netflix isn't as bad as it used to be. But getting actual numbers of what's available in its US versus Australian libraries and currently streaming shows is hard to find. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Or be like Australia where the big services don't even operate. We do have Netflix - but it only has about a third of the content as the US one. "Just watch it on HBO Max/Hulu/(streaming service not available in Australia)" is a thing I run into with annoying frequency. Cheap Trick fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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Oct 10, 2021 03:33
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But you can already watch Hard Quiz, Get Krack!n, Utopia and more on ABC's iView; what else could you want? And Have You Been Paying Attention? is region locked. You're spoiled, frankly.
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Bitcoin stuff is cheating, but this is some magical tech bullshittery
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:There's a lot of annoying bullshit still. I've been trying to find a few BBC shows and there doesn't seem to be a way to legally watch them in America except for finding a cutting-edge VPN that they haven't blocked yet. I subscribe to Acorn and to Britbox; check their listings and see if they have the shows you want. Britbox has a panel channel, which doesn't have enough panel shows, but does have some that aren't on YouTube.
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https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1436027395115393024
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There should be a term for the opportunity cost imposed by having to either ignore a constant stream of nonsense from your devices or spend some of your precious finite minutes on this planet getting your fridge to shut the gently caress up
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This is what peak performance looks like
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I have to say that opening the fridge every twenty‐two minutes you’re awake for a month straight does seem excessive. Still, the fridge is still very rude for e‐mailing like that.
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another use case for vpn, at least for americans. cryptokids use vpn to access the bigger exchanges. i imagine citizens of other countries similarly skirt their country's bans.
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Platystemon posted:I have to say that opening the fridge every twenty‐two minutes you’re awake for a month straight does seem excessive. Yeah, I got thinking about how many times I open the fridge a day and it's not 44. I guess they might have eight people living in the house or something.
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It's kids guys. As soon as kids can forage around I'm the fridge and cupboards for snacks they do. They also like to stand there with the door open staring into the fridge as of it were some empty abyss or eldritch horror, only to close it a minute later having gotten nothing. At least they can't get to the thermostat yet.
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IN THE YEAR 3000! We will have to pay 5 bucks every time we wanna open the fridge and just stare as we figure out what to eat for a late night snack. Before closing it and just eating your kid's fruit snacks again.
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BigRed0427 posted:IN THE YEAR 3000! The door will be a full size oled that you can turn on to just stare into the refrigerator, with vents that very softly blow cold air at you to make you feel as if the door is already open.
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Mister Facetious posted:The door will be a full size oled that you can turn on to just stare into the refrigerator, with vents that very softly blow cold air at you to make you feel as if the door is already open. But the ice maker still fucks up 3 months after you buy it.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:But the ice maker still fucks up 3 months after you buy it. Seriously, gently caress Samsung
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thecluckmeme posted:Seriously, gently caress Samsung My 15 year old KitchenAid has the original ice maker still functioning, and I am loathing the day I have to replace it. My wife wants to get a side by side but I want one of those 4 door multi zone ones.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:But the ice maker still fucks up 3 months after you buy it. We had an ice maker 20 years ago. How the gently caress is this one breaking more than that one did? 
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:My 15 year old KitchenAid has the original ice maker still functioning, and I am loathing the day I have to replace it. I have the four door multi zones, and the top two doors are the fridge, the bottom left is the freezer, and no matter how we've tried to set it the bottom right is a freezer that just doesn't quite stay cold enough to prevent things like frozen pizzas from being able to bend a little bit. The ice maker might give us a few cubes, or it could be bountiful, but no in-between I even know HOW to fix the ice maker, there's videos online and we would just need to store things in the beer fridge while I defrost the main fridge a few times and then put a strip of sealant down one side. I've been told I'm not allowed to and we can either live with it or call the expensive fridge repair guys 
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