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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've heard proton and mullvad are pretty good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Proton does port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

ProtonVPN

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Mullvad

This message is sent through mullvad

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well fuck me...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

ProtonVPN...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Flashbacks of waterfox browser and system11 😕

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 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.