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[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

There are two schools of thought, and one of them is insanely wrong.

The current preferred method (by youngins) for pirating is by using a VPN provider to "hide" your torrent traffic, which is generally valid, but it's not a silver bullet and it's a wrong way to think.

The other is to use a seedbox, which is a remote server hosted in a country that doesn't recognize piracy as a crime to begin with...

The choice is clear. Especially when you consider to get a good private VPN you'll have to pay $5-10/mo. You may as well pay $5-10/mo to commit a crime where no one thinks its a crime, then you never have to worry about it. Using a VPN you can still get caught, it's just exceptionally rare because conditions have to line up perfectly. But what if your VPN is down, and you accidentally begin a download? You willing to get a $100,000 fine for that?

Just use a damn seedbox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Just wanted to point out that if your client is configured properly it won't have any connections while the VPN is down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Question out of curiosity, do you then keep stuff on the seedbox only or do you download to your local hard drive in your country? Because that download would still be illegal or wouldn't it? Just if we are talking about legality of things, everything else set aside.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Downloading copyrighted material isnt a crime; redistribuiting it is. (Seeding, in the case of torrents)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But then leeching via torrents is also legal. So one could just be an asshole for legality's sake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That is coincidentally exactly what meta is arguing in their lawsuit.