The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old::undefined

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    1 year ago

    Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP’s in US Canada and UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting, unless you mask your IP with the correct VPN.

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        1 year ago

        I might have used the wrong word. I think the term is binding a VPN to a torrenting application so that all data going in andd out of pass thru the vpns servers

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      Canada limits the amount that a company can sue for downloading pirated media to the point where it’s not worth it for the company to actually take it to court. The company can ask the ISP to send an email to try to scare the user, but that’s about it.

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        Fines. And say you seeded a movie to 1000 people and a DVD of the movie costs $20, they sue you for $20000, treating it like you broke into a warehouse and stole 1000 DVDs of the movie.