Usenet is older than torrenting. Significantly older. Even older than the WWW IIRC… Every few years the newer generation “discovers it” and realizes you can totally saturate your connection, even with relatively obscure things that would typically need a significant number of seeds to be able to do.

And then it falls to the wayside again, because retention times kinda suck as no one wants to keep petabytes of data for ultra-long term. That and most of the indexers still alive today fucking suck.

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How reliable are the infos from iknowwhatyoudownloaded.com?

100% accurate. Either you, or someone who has/has had your IP (CGNAT) has downloaded those torrents in one way or another.

Likely. What I said has more to do with “we’re next.” If this is successful in France, other countries will follow suit or at the very least get pressure from the IP lobby to follow.

The population of just Europe, Canada and the USA is a combined is over 1 billion.

Congratulations? This has absolutely nothing at all to do with what I’ve said. Not even tangentially. I’m expressly and singularly speaking of France here. EU, Canada and the US combined populations change nothing about what I’ve said at all…

You look to be fighting a wet paper bag here… Sad to see honestly.

Population of France is 66.6 (lol) million people. If even 1% use VPNs that’s a potential market of 666,000 users. At ~$5/mo per user that’s a prospectus of $40 million annually. If I were a VPN provider I would absolutely want a piece of that pie rather than not, and all’s they have to do is follow the law–exactly as they have been this entire time…

So yeah, I absolutely think they’re going to comply.

1. They will comply
2. The rest of us won’t be far behind

They stand to lose a good portion of their business if they can’t service France. They’ll comply.

SOPA.

Haha okay awesome.

Choose an online University, and register as a student. Don’t sign up for any classes. Totally free (maybe an application fee depending on the university you choose), and generally they give you an email when you are approved as a student.

…did…did you try running an executable on a remote seedbox, headlessly?

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Direct download is essentially dead in the US because of the relatively recent changes to file sharing laws… XDCC, Torrenting, Usenet, P2P. Choose one. HTTP warez has long gone the way of the Dodo since Warez-BB died.

Because that download would still be illegal

Of course its still illegal. I’m not saying it’s using a seedbox makes it legal to download illegal torrents. It’s just legal in the country of your seedbox. So if your seedbox provider gets a DMCA notice, they’re going to throw it directly in the trash.

Additionally, between my seedbox and me, is encrypted. So how would anyone know what I download from my private seedbox? There’s realistically no way to get “caught.” Copyright holders pay people to monitor torrent traffic for people to prosecute and hassle–but the same isn’t true for private servers which encrypt traffic.

This is true, but when you factor in only maybe 10% of people know and understand how to enable a VPN kill-switch, it doesn’t bring much comfort.

There are two schools of thought, and one of them is insanely wrong.

The current preferred method (by youngins) for pirating is by using a VPN provider to “hide” your torrent traffic, which is generally valid, but it’s not a silver bullet and it’s a wrong way to think.

The other is to use a seedbox, which is a remote server hosted in a country that doesn’t recognize piracy as a crime to begin with…

The choice is clear. Especially when you consider to get a good private VPN you’ll have to pay $5-10/mo. You may as well pay $5-10/mo to commit a crime where no one thinks its a crime, then you never have to worry about it. Using a VPN you can still get caught, it’s just exceptionally rare because conditions have to line up perfectly. But what if your VPN is down, and you accidentally begin a download? You willing to get a $100,000 fine for that?

Just use a damn seedbox.

Singapore, but for what reason they didn’t explain well to me.

Fast internet speeds, and generally they don’t give a fuck about American IP, although that’s beginning to change.

Been using FeralHosting for 10 years or so now. A bit more expensive than the rest, but I’ve had less than 3-4 issues within that whole time and they’ve always been a reliable provider. Highly recommend them.

It’s evident to me that you’re either stupid, or lack the ability to read. You make up your mind on which is which.

It’s not possible for a company, no matter where they are in the world to permit users to do things which are illegal. Period. Proton cannot allow their users to use their VPN to use the torrent network to download IP. As with any company anywhere in the world. To live in some state of reality to be unable to acknowledge this is the most insane shit I’ve ever seen in my life. You literally are living outside of reality here… The sheer level of stupidity here is fucking insane to me, so I’ll try one last time to put it into perspective for you;

I’ve said “Murder is illegal, no matter where you are. You can’t just kill people” and you’ve said quite unironically “GLOCK allows their customers to kill people, they’ve made murder legal.”

Do you genuinely not see how fucking idiotic and stupid you sound?

Many countries don’t even acknowledge DMCA.

This also has nothing to do with DMCA–which is a US law and cannot be enforced in other parts of the world. As I’ve said from the very beginning, theft of IP (torrent or otherwise) is individually illegal in all but less than 5 countries on this planet… It doesn’t matter how you do it, or where you do it. It’s always going to be illegal because all of the countries from which these VPN providers originate, it’s illegal in those countries.

I’ve done my very best to explain this very simple concept to you–that you can’t break the law just because you’re behind a VPN and they don’t actively pursue you for every little infraction–but if you still don’t understand it after all this, then do us both a favor and just take a vow of silence for the rest of your pitiable life.

I mean Jesus Christ.

Using a VPN for accessing your private, home or company network is the literal reason for which it was created and designed.

It’s in the fucking name, virtual private network. I don’t have to mention it like it’s somehow tangential or some kind of secondary and unused function of the technology. It is it’s literal primary focus.

I’m having a conversation with a literal child trying to explain to them the purpose of a network software that is self-evident in the fucking name of the software itself, and you have the balls to say that I’m insufferable? This community is fucking insufferable–filled to the brim with 12-year-olds that don’t know their ass from their elbow and assert with absolutisms without reading or understanding anything at all. It quite literally brings bile to the recesses of my mouth.