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submitted 2 years ago by agame@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don't find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don't mention "free vpn".

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[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So.... at the risk of humiliating myself,
I've never once used a VPN in my entire life.

I pirated games, movies, shows, music, software... and the worst thing that happened to me was getting a letter from Telus once or twice saying "Hey. Don't do that."

That was 5 years ago

I know it's bad practice. But is a VPN 100% necessary? Even a free one?

[-] silencioso@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I find incredible that it's absolutely illegal for anyone to read your letters and only the police can do that and only if a judge grant them the right to do that case by case, and a private telecommunications company can read absolutely all your digital communication with no judge involved and no one blinks an eye.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Generally CnD letters are not generated by the ISPs themselves. ISPs don't care what you do unless legally obligated to. When you get a CnD letter, it's usually because someone working for a copyright holder was on a torrent and snagged your IP, then sent an infringement notice to your ISP, who in turn sends a CnD to the current holder of the IP, i.e. you.

At no point does your ISP have to read your digital communications themselves. Any one of your peers on a torrent can tell what your public IP address is, it's inherent to the BitTorrent protocol. Copyright holders take advantage of this to catch pirates.

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