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Funny, I've been able to purchase and stream seasons 1 and 2 via Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BHASVQC Looks like HBO was able to take my money just fine.
OP is talking about season 3, how it'll inevitably get pirated, and how there's no alternative.
Works fine for me.
Game of Thrones (the most pirated show of last year) comes out in March. Still not for sale at any price unless you have a cable package AND one of their authorised ISPs (plus $18+tax/month). Maybe companies like HBO should update their business practices to something roughly compatible with 2013, instead of trying to legal threat everyone into submission. If they sold it on iTunes, YouTube, or Hulu+ they'd convert t…
How is HBO "trying to legal threat everyone into submission"? I've purchased seasons 1 and 2 of Game of Thrones on Bluray. I don't have cable yet HBO managed to take my money just fine. I bet those seasons are still heavily pirated despite being available for purchase, just as people pirate movies, TV shows, and music that has been available for legal purchase for years or decades. People just want to get shit withou…
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Private Internet Access[1] has been serving me well for a long time and they've got endpoints all over the place, from Oh Canada to the Netherlands. Things are consistently fast and reliable, their customer service is responsive, and you can log in from multiple devices at a time which is great. They're cheap too. [1] http://www.privateinternetaccess.com
I like most of their policies, but they really need to be explicit about their usage limits. "You can only use a reasonable amount from our service. How much is reasonable? You'll find out when you hit it and we decide to drop the hammer, take your money, and never speak to you again."
I really wish business practices would change to meet this demand. I recently came across crunchyroll [1] which has a huge amount of japanese animation available to watch online 'for free' if you can put up with ads, or you can pay $7/month to have ad free (as well as higher def). What I find really awesome is that for many shows it is available online an hour after it is shown in japan (this is for paying members, f…
Is there some reason why there isn't an inexpensive Chinese-made device that people could buy that creates totally decentralized urban and suburban mesh networks over public spectrum?
Legitimate use from about an hour ago: Downloaded a fan remix album of some video game music (A torrent is the method they give on their website for downloading). Will that activity result in any kind warning flags?
Is this something that services like hidemyip circumvent? Or is it different since, I assume, my actual IP is visible when torrenting?
LOOK MA, NO GOVERNMENT! With SOPA destroyed by the combined efforts of giant internet companies and internet users calling their congressmen, Hollywood was able to engage another group: ISPs. Note: this is done completely without government. It is one of the best illustrations to date of what I was saying, about nannies curtailing liberties being possible even if government doesn't do them. To all libertarians that s…
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I like most of their policies, but they really need to be explicit about their usage limits. "You can only use a reasonable amount from our service. How much is reasonable? You'll find out when you hit it and we decide to drop the hammer, take your money, and never speak to you again."
Where are you quoting that from? I can't find anything in the ToS about that and one of the features they list is "Unmetered VPN Transfer".
"Additionally, we may impose usage limits to our services,
suspend or block services, or cancel any and all services
at our sole discretion at any time. Finally, we do not
guarantee the accuracy and timeliness of any data received."
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/terms-of-service...
under Service Level Agreement
"Subscriber understands that Privateinternetaccess.com
also reserves the right to scale back or throttle
bandwidth originating from subscriber accounts that may
breach the present Agreement or in the event of
excessive usage on the Privateinternetaccess.com network."
Which is REALLY ODD that they would have those terms, because on their contact page:
"Are there any limitations on usage or bandwidth?"
"We do not impose any restrictions or limitations on usage
and/or bandwidth consumption. Please feel free to engage in
any legal activity. "
Is there some reason why there isn't an inexpensive Chinese-made device that people could buy that creates totally decentralized urban and suburban mesh networks over public spectrum?
Hm, the Chinese government doesn't endorse that kind of technology?