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New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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Sure there's an alternative. Wait a few months until it's available for purchase. Works fine for me.

Unacceptable. If my friends/family are watching some awesome show like say, LOST, I'm not waiting for TV companies/netflix/whoever to get their act together. The moment people around me want to discuss the show is the moment I want it and not a second later. I will pirate it if need be. I won't "wait a few months". I'm not here trying to justify piracy either; think whatever you want of me - I'm not waiting, that's a…

HBO is willing to sell it to you, you just don't like the price they want to charge.

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#93
post #44

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The http://torguard.net/ SOCKS proxy service works quite well if all you care is bittorrent. They also offer a VPN product. They don't keep logs, which is something to look for in any decent VPN or SOCKS proxy.

If all you care about is bittorrent, why not just use private trackers for whatever you need?

You think DtecNet can't get accounts on "private" trackers?

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unacceptable. If my friends/family are watching some awesome show like say, LOST, I'm not waiting for TV companies/netflix/whoever to get their act together. The moment people around me want to discuss the show is the moment I want it and not a second later. I will pirate it if need be. I won't "wait a few months". I'm not here trying to justify piracy either; think whatever you want of me - I'm not waiting, that's a…

HBO is willing to sell it to you, you just don't like the price they want to charge.

Incorrect. Sell it to me using a modern medium, I'll buy it. Netflix/HULU/AmzInstant or downloadable files. That's fine. CableTV, No.

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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This is really bad. I don't care for piracy, but I'm really worried. This is a prediction of the internet.. year 2020: TOR, freenet or some new network is in size like p2p was 2013. It has got a lot of attention from ordinary people and developers and it's actually pretty fast now days. Pretty much everyone runs a relay, it's basically like it was running uTorrent back in 2005 - not a big deal. While everything is fr…

>Is this what we want?

Short answer: Yes - but not for the reason you stated. The "cyber police" have been getting far too powerful and chummy with ISPs as of late. Any measures an average person can reasonably take to make surveillance hard if not impossible to conduct should be happening.

Police can rely on old fashioned police work. They do not need DPI gear in every datacenter to trace down kiddie pornographers, "terrorists" and online drug dealers (which is a section of law enforcement which needs to shrivel and die anyways).

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

#96

Welcome to fascism. Where corporate-government interests strictly control everything (Verizon and AT&T = US Government, since they've been granted government monopoly protections, they are in fact an arm of the Federal Government).

As exhibit "B," I list the granting of immunity to the above TelComs for their part in the domestic surveillance program(s.)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Effort-To-Scuttle-Telecom...

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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post #81

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Sure there's an alternative. Wait a few months until it's available for purchase. Works fine for me.

Unacceptable. If my friends/family are watching some awesome show like say, LOST, I'm not waiting for TV companies/netflix/whoever to get their act together. The moment people around me want to discuss the show is the moment I want it and not a second later. I will pirate it if need be. I won't "wait a few months". I'm not here trying to justify piracy either; think whatever you want of me - I'm not waiting, that's a…

I've also had no problem talking to people about it when I've waited to watch it.

Your attitude is over the top self-entitled.

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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post #90
post #81

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Unacceptable. If my friends/family are watching some awesome show like say, LOST, I'm not waiting for TV companies/netflix/whoever to get their act together. The moment people around me want to discuss the show is the moment I want it and not a second later. I will pirate it if need be. I won't "wait a few months". I'm not here trying to justify piracy either; think whatever you want of me - I'm not waiting, that's a…

Unacceptable? It's a tv show . I think some perspective is needed. It's also a tv show that HBO owns the full rights to and is free to do with it as they please.

Sure, they can do what they want. But I thought we were sorta discussing piracy. Again, I'm not trying to justify myself. I'm just going to pirate it, end of story. What prevents me from doing that is if they make it available for download or stream before piratebay does.

I'm not arguing any point here, I'm just providing one data-point. There are people like me who want to have fun discussing shows with his friends/family while they're watching it. Not 6+ months later.

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

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Really? Cause I found this: "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." You can see that little gem here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/terms-of-service... under Service Level Agreement "Subscriber understands that Pr…

That's very different to what you originally quoted! Having said that, yes, there is a discrepancy there, although I've got a feeling it's a CYA provision in case someone with Google Fiber decides to download all of YouTube.

>That's very different to what you originally quoted!

I will admit to some paraphrasing. :)

Re: New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

#100
post #54

1) Install HTTPS Everywhere extension for your browser 2) Use VPN if you can 3) Use TOR browser if you can Let's overwhelm the internet with encrypted traffic. Nobody will have enough resources to decrypt or MITM all that traffic.

It isn't about encryption, since if a content provider can get a hand on a torrent file or a tracker + magnet, they can get all the IPs of everyone in the swarm. The only way to avoid that is having your traffic routed through someone else so you can't be directly visible, which is expensive in the broad sense.
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