Comment on Anon tries to save money

scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only thing Eastern Europe does better than the west

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  • Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s luck but I’ve shamelessly torrented in the UK my whole life, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the past fifteen years, I’ve downloaded a petabyte on pirated content.

    I’ve never used a VPN and the one time I got a letter from my ISP, I suspect it was a scam anyway. I have used at least 4 ISPs in this period and two mobile networks, I’ve even used public and work WiFis with not issue.

    I’m not sure if this a UK thing or if I’m just wildly lucky.

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    • jedibob5@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m stateside, and I torrented something once without a VPN and got an email complaint from my ISP not long after.

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      • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        To be fair, I’m also stateside and, while I knew enough to know not to do it with abandon, I’ve torrented without a VPN at least a handful of times and never got anything from my ISPs in two decades.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Have the same story here in Belgium.

      Never gotten a letter.

      In the Netherlands they pay a small fee (2€ on a new phone) on every electronics “with which you can download”, which allows them to pirate without much worrying.

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      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We have such a fee as well in Sweden, but piracy is still illegal and prosecuted.

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m doing fine in Ireland anyway.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Brazil and most Latin American countries are also safe pirate havens, unless you set up a for-profit piracy site, then you’re painting a huge target on your head.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can also just direct download games without a VPN.

  100% safe?

  No, but uh, ISPs have so heavily switched over to monitoring torrents, they kind of forgot the other option exists.

  (I’ll update this with a -whoops I got fucked- if that happens, but I’ve been doing this for half a year now, no problems.)

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