Every website is safe or not safe on its own merits. Their location makes little difference as far as you're concerned despite the people here replying that Russia can redirect you (news flash: every government on the planet can; it's how DNS works). Russia is far easier of a country to pirate from. And that's the most important part to you: how a government treats piracy. The US is a far less safe place because they favour corporate greed above all else. Russia, not so much.

I'm sure there are some here who could debate this endlessly but you need to treat every website as its own sovereign space. Failing that, you also need to take the area it's in into consideration should you have any legal disputes. For example, let's say a website is hosted in a country that has a lax view of cyber law enforcement and this site is selling images you took as photographer. You send endless DMCA notices but because they don't really have a governing body to handle this crime, your photos are never taken down. Contrast this to the US, which actually does enforce such laws and will actively penalize and even shutdown hosting providers, your DMCA notices are taken much more seriously.

None of this impacts piracy. And if you give out your CC number to any pirate site, US, RU, CA, you run the risk of it being compromised. The rest really doesn't concern you.

Some have claimed that Russia redirects websites, etc. but again, that has nothing to do with piracy. And they certainly don't steal every website and send you to their own versions via DNS redirects. That's insane. Now if you want to say that disproportionately, Russia has more scam websites, I can believe that. Or that their country doesn't really use the advanced encryption and security measures to protect your private details (CC, name, phone number etc.), I can believe that too. But to claim that Russia itself is doing a ton of shady shit to trap you seeding a torrent and then sending the KGB to assassinate your family... that's some real tinfoil hat stuff.

Just use the standard protective measures you would use anywhere else (VPN, never give out CC or real name, etc.) and you'll be fine.

I prefer yandex for piracy. If you search "Furiosa x265 torrent download" you get pages and pages of hits. Run the same search on DDG (Bing) or Google and there won't be a single torrent hit because their search engines have long removed any pirate related content and monitor for it to protect their investors.

No one. No one remembers it fondly because it’s got a “quirky” name. That’s not how software works. People use software because it’s useful. Not because it’s edgy or has memorable branding. I would rather a competent design tool period. The name is irrelevant. We aren't selling cookies or an energy drink. We are empowering people to get things done. You think your spoon with a hole in it is going to sell because you call it “Faggot”?

What I don’t get is neither path is very deep, so shining a light would reveal both dead ends. Can’t think of a worse way to go tho. And the fear and panic realizing you’re doomed.

It’s DDGs primary search engine

Yeah another stellar case in point to show Sony would rather you eat glass than have to do anything for you.

Let’s not forget the ridiculous court case against Geohotz for jail breaking the PS3. They pulled out every dirty tactic they could in that suit. Really showed their colours and how they actually “fight” in the court of law.

Scum of the earth.

Stay off of Fivr or equivalent if you want to make real money and get a real business off the ground.

As for clients: networking. You just have to be a smooth talker to make it in business.

I guess they would feel the hotel for not taking enough measures to prevent such from occurring lol.

It’s just a never ending slippery slope. Literally the same thing as hey there was a murder and we found the gun in your trash. You did it. Well next time make sure people don’t sneak onto your place and do shit.

I applaud the judges for seeing what’s in plain sight but can’t help but want to slap that outfit for even trying to pressure this into courts and then having the gall to try and take it even higher.

We made it safe by making it so nobody can be safe. What are you people mot understanding?!

/s

Kind of a pointless stunt if he doesn’t change the domain. What’s even the point of rebranding when your URL points to the old one. Can this clown do anything right? How he became the next messiah to millions will always elude me.

I think if you want to cut thru it all, take her direct quotes, the actual events as factual occurrences and draw your conclusions. Then all the colour, like the quote you posted, or her feelings on how she was treated with a grain of salt as perhaps it was just really a bad fit. And someone with a different mindset might not have felt as hurt or attacked. But that is more emotional and some of that is still on the person feeling it (and how strongly).

It 100% sounds like the dynamic was off and Linus was too stupid to see it. Which honestly tracks. Not saying he’s also not a POS (just definitely dumb).

With all that said, the few quotes she posted from them and the events she laid out definitely wreaked of garage startup nonsense. Which is always comical when paired with the air of professionalism when they try to spin the event during crisis mode (as evidence by their absurd code of conduct).