Torrenting without vpn for EU resident (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Banana_man@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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EU is making a new law which makes your IP the same as (something similar to) your social security number and they say piracy is going to receive a huge blow. Obviously I have no intention of stopping but now I'll have to start using a VPN, if I want to continue my way. However, I do not trust VPNs a lot and I do not like the idea of paying for them (I could just pay for the movie in the first place)

I looked into using Tor network to torrent but it seems like it'd be a hindrance to the network itself, which is going to be a huge inconvenience for other users. Additionally I know that even if I found a way to throttle my bandwidth to remove this problem, Tor isn't exactly made for this sort of thing anyways.

Now, obviously it doesn't have to be torrenting, but I would gladly hear any suggestions on how to avoid paying and getting movies and shows without being caught doing it. Truthfully I was only streaming from websites for many years, so I do not know a lot about torrenting vs direct downloading either. Thanks in advance for any responses.

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[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 18 points 2 days ago

Do you have some source for this IP thing in the EU? I wasn't aware of any new privacy laws.

[-] Banana_man@reddthat.com -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

only sources I can find are in Greek since this is my home country where this was implemented, but basically EU forced us to do it so I thought other countries would also have this problem. https://techmaniacs.gr/episimo-syndesi-afm-me-ip-kai-prostima-se-osoys-katevazoyn-katanalonoyn-kai-diakinoyn-peratiko-periechomeno/ see if you can translate this to english, will come back with an uptade if I find something better. update: found this article in english only, but the “dynamic blocking measures targeting end-users” are connection of the IP with the equivalent of a social security number of the people inside the house where the infringement occurs.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 12 points 2 days ago

this is an ad for a vpn.

[-] Banana_man@reddthat.com 0 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately there's little coverage in English of this issue.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Uh, thanks. That really doesn't look good. Usually copyright infringement is a civil matter. And I believe we had sufficient laws to handle that in European countries. I haven't read the cited new law, but I guess that "shortcut" just does away with everyone's privacy. Plus it's going to swamp the courts with cases. I'm not sure if they're bored or anything.... But either they just hand out fines without checking properly... Or, if done properly, this is just a lot of additional work for the justice system. To the benefit of the copyright industry. And either way, it's just bad for the people.

Edit: I believe this is the mentioned government gazette. The copyright changes are in Chapter 2: https://www.e-nomothesia.gr/kat-arxaiotites/n-5179-2025.html