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I have never used a VPN whilst using public torrents and my ISP has never done shit
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I remember downloading that batman porn parody in college then the dude started suing everyone so I got real paranoid and started using peerblock. But I guess we all got the last laugh since that dude went to prison over that whole thing.
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I got some shit in the mail after using peerblock so I switched to a seed box. It's way better and nobody bothers trying to send letters to Cyprus.
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Ive always doubted peerblock is terribly effective, but less hassle and much faster than a VPN. I'll check out seed box. Thanks for the suggestion.
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It depends a lot on where you're from. Most countries don't really give a shit but e.g. Germans get btfo
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I don't believe this. Literally just say it wasn't you. Oh someone was connected to my router that did it? Well I'm not good with computers I never really set a WiFi password, maybe the neighbors did it you can ask them.
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Too bad that it's not how it works here. You, the customer who privately owns the internet access, is completely responsible for the traffic. Dindu nuffin doesn't work in Germany. You can rat out the perpetuator and that's all.
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So you can be fined whilst they only have an IP address and nothing more on you? That's really sad if true
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It is, Internet Providers save IPs up to 6 months(Government rule). And it's pretty obvious that content owners/lawcels honey potting on torrent too.
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That's what I've done. The IT customer support always gave the "oh my" wink and a nod. ISPs don't wnat to be responsibility for whatever the DMCA autists demand, and they also want your money, so they give plenty of chances.
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i've heard a few times that germans get actual fines for it
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I got a letter from an ISP once like 10 years ago.
Just threw it in the trash nothing happened.
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i didn't for a long time but my current isp sent a letter so i got a penny vpn
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Another buck broken.
https://en.pronouns.page/@hiimjustin000
Is this lil neighbor for real?
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tf
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Fatherless behavior.
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Single motherism (especially of the variety) and its consequences
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THE RUSH
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Nice that he is honest, but it's so over for him.
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Sad to think if only he had someone to slap him around once in a while and to tell to him to stop acting like a strag he could turn into a perfectly normal engineer.
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fatherless sadly
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Eww
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people use VPNs when torrenting?
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I got love letters from my ISP about 10 times they never do shit about it
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Wait youre supposed to read your mail from your ISP?
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3rdworldlet detected
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torrentlet seething
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I use Mullvad cause I'm a lil paranoid about my ISP after getting a letter once but it costs like $60 a year and takes twenty seconds to set up so it was peace of mind for me more than anything
Though AFAIK you only need to worry about it if you're in Germany or the US
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Sleepycast taught me how to torrent correctly
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At this rate my retirement plan will be bullying grown butt adults for their pension payments and welfare.
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Gm
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Good morning sammy
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There's pirate websites that have autoplay and remember were you are in a video. No need to even torrent anymore.
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fmovies.wtf just use AdBlock
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Snapshots:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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My wifi is too shit to torrent with a vpn so I just don't use one. Live in America and still never got bothered about it. To be fair all I used it for was porn.
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"wifi too shit for p2p"
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Yes
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Poor. Buy better service and this https://amplifi.com/alien
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I live in the middle of nowhere and hughesnet was all I could get. I'd get about one day of good service with them each month before they'd throttle my speeds and I'd be stuck with dogshit again. I'm on starlink now and it's much better.
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P2P is just pulling packets, couldn't you have it run overnight or something to not slow you down?
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It would've taken much longer than overnight for anything of significant size lol. My speed got cut down to about a tenth that with a VPN on.
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I dont think i've ever used a vpn in my life
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Haha guys VPNs are really lame, like who even uses those? Dude BUSSY LMAO.
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I wonder more and more if these people are just jobless, children, unskilled laborers, or all of the above.
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