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Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?

mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I got a cease and desist letter that forced me to talk to a lawyer and start court proceedings which stretched over three years, to avoid paying a monthly income in “damages”, for torrenting The Hurt Locker.
So now I use a VPN.

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Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The weird part is, it wouldn’t even have mattered if I did it or not.
  I was living with roommates and the contract with the ISP for the house’s internet connection was in my name.
  So according to German law at the time, I was legally on the hook for copyright violations by anyone on the shared WiFi.
  By the time all the legalese letters back and forth were done and the opposing law firm would have had to officially charge me in court, the law had changed.
  The old law would still have technically been applicable for my case, but I guess my push-back with a lawyer, and the risk of a judge being sick of the useless workload, made it too risky to be profitable for the copyright vultures.
  
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