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I suppose what's interesting about this to me is that the pirates are presumably paying for VPN service? Which means that I guess we've figured out the threshold where they are and aren't willing to pay for things -- to keep out of jail. I should launch a Piracy as a Service app. Each month, you send me $100, and I will send you back copies of hot movies of varying quality, but all perfectly legal. You stay out of ja…
> Each month, you send me $100, and I will send you back copies of hot movies of varying quality, but all perfectly legal Your snide comment is way off the mark. By your tone I'm assuming you're staunchly anti-piracy and don't pirate stuff, so you don't have experience with the actual quality of pirated media. As a long-time pirate (10+ years), I can unequivocally tell you that pirated media is lightyears ahead of an…
Also, if there's any problem with playback, you can fix it. A few things I use often: Brightness control, dynamic range compression (nighttime mode), subwoofer support (2 channel audio on Windows just goes out L and R; ffdshow lets me easily split low freqs to the sub).
I suppose what's interesting about this to me is that the pirates are presumably paying for VPN service? Which means that I guess we've figured out the threshold where they are and aren't willing to pay for things -- to keep out of jail. I should launch a Piracy as a Service app. Each month, you send me $100, and I will send you back copies of hot movies of varying quality, but all perfectly legal. You stay out of ja…
If you want to pay to improve your piracy experience, Usenet is the way to go. For about $20 a month you can get unlimited downloads of whatever, as fast as your home connection can handle, non-peer-to-peer. It's not as general a solution as VPN, but it's kind of amazing to me that Usenet doesn't get more attention, at least if VPNs are now starting to.
Perhaps because the saying "the first rule of Usenet is that you don't talk about Usenet" has helped prevent it from going viral.
Since I have a bunch of EC2 nodes anyway, I route my own traffic through one of them when I want a VPN (mostly for a little extra safety on untrusted wifi). It works great until you realize how much of the web blocks access from EC2.
Since I have a bunch of EC2 nodes anyway, I route my own traffic through one of them when I want a VPN (mostly for a little extra safety on untrusted wifi). It works great until you realize how much of the web blocks access from EC2.
Why would websites block access from ec2?
Since I have a bunch of EC2 nodes anyway, I route my own traffic through one of them when I want a VPN (mostly for a little extra safety on untrusted wifi). It works great until you realize how much of the web blocks access from EC2.
Why would websites block access from ec2?
Queue banning of VPNs in 3....2....1..... There is evidence of links to terrorism. Well, VPN is 3 letters and so is IRA, ETA and RAF so thats a link. Better throw child pornography and drug smuggling in there as well
[Responses from the article] > But then governments will replace VPNs >> Then governments will be replaced This is already becoming the true in Germany. ~10% vote Pirate Party in Berlin, more states have similar voting numbers. PPDE is now the third largest party in Germany by member count.
According to their own wiki[1] they are number 7. Even if you count cdu and csu as one party they are 6. place.
[1]http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Mitglieder#Mitglieder_im_Vergle...
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I'm more afraid that the use of a VPN will actually become less secure than without using it. ISPs are governed by different laws ensuring your privacy (to some extent). VPNs aren't subjected to those laws and can thus, legally, sell you out long before your ISP ever could. Sure, the potential outrage for such behavior is probably enough to convince most VPN services to never do it (although a secret agreement with M…
I think a lot of it depends on which ISP you have, how much you trust your ISP, and how much you trust your VPN. Many VPNs claim to keep no data at all, which means that government intervention cannot reveal your Internet activities, because there are no records. If you live in an area where your ISP is required to maintain certain histories, and you have a trusted VPN in a more relaxed country, it's easy to see how…
I suppose what's interesting about this to me is that the pirates are presumably paying for VPN service? Which means that I guess we've figured out the threshold where they are and aren't willing to pay for things -- to keep out of jail. I should launch a Piracy as a Service app. Each month, you send me $100, and I will send you back copies of hot movies of varying quality, but all perfectly legal. You stay out of ja…
Actually I was thinking that should be the content industry's next business model. People subscribe to torrent/content services. The services buy licenses for content. People download content. It's almost the same thing as radio, the difference being that you have a copy.
Since I have a bunch of EC2 nodes anyway, I route my own traffic through one of them when I want a VPN (mostly for a little extra safety on untrusted wifi). It works great until you realize how much of the web blocks access from EC2.
Why would websites block access from ec2?
- lots of headaches
- badly behaved bots
- griefers
- ban avoiders
- wanna-be hackers aka script kiddies
Why would one not want to block access to a website from ec2?