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Great now I've gotta get a VPN which will make my internet even slower...

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Because I'm dying to torrent stuff on 5881100847.png

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24 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Up next: After people keep finding torrents anyway, Australia bans Google...Yep, the whole fucking thing....cause pirates.

And after people switch to something else:

 

"Guess we better just dismantle the internet."

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3 minutes ago, xewp said:

Would love to sign in a heart beat if they allowed torrenting

Oh yeah forgot about that, damn it it costs twice as much to get a decent VPN that actually allows torrenting

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Or you could use a free vpn that allows custom tunneling to a certain russian village that has the best internet security on the planet....Yeah just my opinion.

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It's not even just about pirates, torrent file sharing is used for all kinds of legitimate things.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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My opinion is that this is completely unenforceable, it's thought up by a bunch of lawmakers that don't understand shit about the internet.

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Just now, Sauron said:

It's not even just about pirates, torrent file sharing is used for all kinds of legitimate things.

Yes, but the dumbasses in charge don't understand that because their advisers are bought and paid for by big business.

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BTW, the reason I'm not posting specifics is this is a trackable Australian IP address. With a little research you can figure out the vpn software I use (it's open source). the village is easy to track down isn't hard. An IP address is however, and can be expensive.

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You won't believe some bullshit that has come out of one of Australia's biggest anti piracy campaigners, Graham Burke. 

 

“The pirates are not good guys. These aren’t roguish, basement-dwelling computer geeks,” he told the convention. “These are the same type of people that sell heroin.”

 

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/internet-providers-have-two-weeks-to-block-pirate-bay?utm_term=.nhjAO6DJm9#.npOE0WQw6X

 

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26 minutes ago, slightlyjaded said:

My opinion is that this is completely unenforceable, it's thought up by a bunch of lawmakers that don't understand shit about the internet.

You can't block torrents in general, but if you block the largest torrent sites it still makes it a lot harder to share (even legitimate) torrents.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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2 hours ago, CaptainGunny said:

You won't believe some bullshit that has come out of one of Australia's biggest anti piracy campaigners, Graham Burke. 

 

“The pirates are not good guys. These aren’t roguish, basement-dwelling computer geeks,” he told the convention. “These are the same type of people that sell heroin.”

 

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/internet-providers-have-two-weeks-to-block-pirate-bay?utm_term=.nhjAO6DJm9#.npOE0WQw6X

 

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This is too funny some of the sites they are trying to block are already gone like torrentz unless it has gone back up, also depending on the blocking method it could be very easy to go to these site.

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Change DNS servers first off, most blocking will be done through telcos DNS servers directly. If still can't access then use a good proxy, if still can't connect and/or download then VPN is the answer.

I of course mean for legit downloads, as the media and courts have again forgotten that torrenting in and of itself is NOT illegal (funny that huh!). They could of course be forced to block p2p traffic, but again this only harms everyone as there are legitimate uses of this.. again the answer is VPN, as unless they are using a packet sniffer they should be unable to tell what it is going through the pipes AFAIK. And isn't it against net neutrality laws to not treat all traffic as equal anyway?

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20 hours ago, Droidbot said:

holy lord these people are so stupid.. " This judgement gives us another tool to fight the international criminals who seek to profit from the hard work of actors, writers, directors and other creators the world over " - they don't profit that much, they earn money from ads but hosting a tracker and a large db is expensive as well as recruiting staff. these douchebags are blocking us access to content that is unfeasible to get otherwise, like the grand tour, etc. gt for example requires amazon prime which offers us little to no benefits for $100 USD a year. 

$100 USD... A year. Not that much!

 

Netflix is more expensive. 

 

So... Movie producers need to pay $50 per site. Is there a independent review board that approves/denies what sites get blocked? If this lies with the movies studios, I have a MASSIVE bone to pick. 

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1 hour ago, Belgarathian said:

$100 USD... A year. Not that much!

 

Netflix is more expensive. 

 

So... Movie producers need to pay $50 per site. Is there a independent review board that approves/denies what sites get blocked? If this lies with the movies studios, I have a MASSIVE bone to pick. 

 

it's a lot for just one show imo

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21 hours ago, Newenthusiast said:

 

Foxtel welcomed the decision calling it a "major step in directly combating piracy". 

That´s so much overselling... First, if I understood correctly, you don´t even need a VPN, just anyway to bypass their DNS would do. And second, they charge them for every site they request to blocked... :P 

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On 12/15/2016 at 9:20 AM, Misanthrope said:

Up next: After people keep finding torrents anyway, Australia bans Google...Yep, the whole fucking thing....cause pirates.

That's okay, just ask Jeeves...

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I'm surprised torrent sites haven't just migrated to tor.

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