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Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It's not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don't even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?"

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[-] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Yo! What's a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.

[-] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I've heard proton and mullvad are pretty good

[-] iliketrains@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

mullvad no longer portforwards, so probably not a good option to torrent with. proton is good if you use their whole ecosystem.

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Proton does port forwarding

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I do miss port forwarding but could you explain why its necessary for torrenting?

[-] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

ProtonVPN

[-] UnfortunateTwist@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

I personally like Mullvad, their practices, and their straightforward price of 5€/month. They’re not going to try to lure you in with discounts by subscribing for multiple months or years. Now if Mullvad has gone downhill, someone chime in.

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago

Mullvad doesn't do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based

[-] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

Just self-host a VPN on a VPS so you can enable disk encryption and disable logging.

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Mullvad

This message is sent through mullvad

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Edit: looks like I need a new VPN...

I use private internet access (pia). It's reasonably priced, really good for the number of devices, and I don't believe they keep logs. At least it used to be that way, but I haven't checked that since I signed up a decade ago. I have had zero issues with anything or anyone while using it for any reason. Uptime is basically 100%. Also has mobile support if that matters.

[-] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

They got bought by an Israeli adware company a few years back

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Well fuck me...

[-] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

ProtonVPN...

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Flashbacks of waterfox browser and system11 😕

[-] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I know the feeling, I used PIA for a while but moved to Mullvad.

[-] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Same, I used to use PIA for about a decade, but I could've sworn I heard they were one of the ones that had gone way downhill. Otherwise I never had an issue with them. I'll have to do some digging, see if it was founded or just a reddit rumor.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

PIA’s service is still decent and offers all the features that other VPNs do, but they got bought out by a company that has added spyware to programs in the past. So many users jumped ship when that buyout was finalized, because it’s hard to trust their application or their service when the owning company has a known history of intentionally infecting their users.

[-] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Okay yes that's what I remember reading. I have Express VPN now, and while researching found it's still surprisingly highly and doesn't log. it's on the more expensive side though, so I may still give proton or one of the other recs a try.