Have you ever been caught pirating?
Did you get in a trouble?
i'm curious because i know someone who has been doing it off and on for 4 years and they have never even gotten a email or letter.
Got caught once about 7 years ago. ISP cut service and got a cease and desist letter. Had to sign a form saying I wouldn't do it again and they turned it back on.
My mom says breaking the law is what criminals do. And criminals are bad.
Yeah my isp snitched me out. Got police on my ass. Told them my wifi wasnt secured and they believed it.
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>>714393710
> See screenshots on /b/ of a new Lexi Belle video after she gained a bunch of weight
> Dick goes nuts for THICC so I decide to download the video
> Get it from TPB
> The ass was fat
> More like Taco Belle lol
> Cum buckets over a few days
> Forget about it
> a couple days later roommate gets a letter in the mail from Comcast bitching about "unauthorized downloads" blah blah blah
> Feign ignorance
> Other roommates do the same
> Blame it on the weird asshole roommate
> He denies it but everyone thinks it was him
> Cracks me up whenever I think about it
That's been it, really.
>>714393710
>use a good vpn
>pay attention to what methods you're connecting to the server with
>turn off IPv6 if not covered by vpn
>spoof MAC address
>use a virtual machine or a junk laptop
>consider ssl tunneling
>>714393710
I'm pirating every day. For my country is not an issue.. also hi-speed internet. donwloading with 10mb/sec for the price of 14$/mo
i download shit everyday and never got a problem with it, im guessing is just americans who get in trouble for this
>>714393710
ironically, the one time they tried to get me, it was something I had not been responsible for.
The case was closed pretty quickly though.
>>714394310
What the fuck. Do you own your own Island-country?
>>714393710
Tfw I've been doing it for 4 years thinking it was legal and never gotten a warning
>>714394510
would very much like to, but no
in my country its not illegal to pirate shit for my own use
DONT DO IT, IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO A SUICIDE SQUAD GUANTANAMO BAY LIKE JAIL.
Anyone ever got a letter for streaming movies of putlocker or shit like that?
get out of here you fucktard
>>714393710
depends entirely on your ISP, some care some dont.
>>714393710
My bud had his net restricted, he could only visit certain sites/do certain things. I don't know the exact details but to my knowledge that's what happened. Eventually he switched ISP's and all was good I suppose.
Why do people think downloading a number is illegal? People shouldn't be able to put copyrights on numbers.
>I thought of that number first so you have to pay a licence to use it
Computers just work with numbers, 1s and 0s.
I've received dozens of emails from Charter, but nothing has happened yet.
>>714393942
This is all that happens.
I just stream. Haven't been fucked with yet. I think they are more interested in distributors than the fuckers watching.
>>714396197
Would you download a car?
>>714394310
fuck you romania I'm paying 30 euros a month for 8mb, this shit is not fair :(
Unless you are in the US then there is absolutely no risk for you to download games or movies, I got fallout 4 a day before it came out in europe FeelsGoodMan
not necessarily pirating but in college I had my internet shut off because i used p2p a lot and it took up too much bandwidth, mostly uploads. just had to talk to tech guy, had me uninstall the software then he unblocked me.
I remember watching The Proud Family that got me real scared of pirating. Didn't want to turn into the Gross sisters.
>>714397847
are you in the USA?
>>714397936
yeah, this was 10+ years ago
>>714397419
Fuck yes i would
>>714393710
Got caught twice, both times nothing really happened but I was kinda spooked.
First time was mainly due to my stupidity. Was in my university dorm, downloaded some big name movie (I think it was Apocalypse Now). A few days later, I got an e-mail telling me to delete that shit from my computer or suffer the consequences. I simply deleted the torrent from the tracker and wasn't bothered again.
The second time was just last year. Downloaded a phat-titty porn vid (wasn't even worth it in the end), and a few months later got an e-mail saying that I'd have to pay $500 if I continued.
Two times out of 10 years of torrenting. I think I'm doing pretty good.
>>714398146
Sheit
yes, twice. my isp turned off my internet after each time and i had to call to get them to turn it back on. i played stupid and denied but on the second phone call they said if it happens 3 times in a 12 month period that they go bye bye. and they also informed me that i could face legal action from the creators of the files, lol.
>>714398146
i think their threats are bogus. they're just trying to scare people.
>>714398003
i feel bad for the usa anons and their laws, in europe they let you do whatever you want, if anything they give you a call to ask you to slow down with the downloads if you take too much bandwith or to ask you to upgrade your internet since you're downloading so much, here it's not illegal to download games/music what's illegal is to sell them and no one sells them since everyone knows where to download them, too bad the only country with godlike internet is romania, can't wait to get some of that optic fiber myself
>>714397595
I'm paying 90+/month for 7mb
I feel your pain, Anon
>>714393710
In my experience there's really only a few things that you can't torrent:
-Mainsteam/big name movies
-Music from major artists
-Big release video games
-American pornography (a recent addition)
Things that are usually safe to torrent:
-Foreign films
-TV shows
-Anime
-Foreign pornography
-Indie music
-books
>>714394458
We pay 40 for 150mbps download :p
>>714393710
The FBI actually shut my wifi down till I deleted my pirated Transformers movie
>>714398146
Is porn ever worth downloading in the end though?
>in USA
>Pirate since about 1993
>Received 2 letters in 2002
>Started using tor to torrent
>Switched to vpn in 2010
Never been shut down, never been arrested, never been sued, never been worried about it much either...
never have I ever and Ive been pirating everyday since I learnt everything is free if you look hard enough.
Idk what Canadian laws are like but I've downloaded lots of stuff and looked at some very shady things. Never got an email, call, or knock.
>>714398320
I looked into it. The threat is mainly a scare tactic, but that hasn't stopped people from sending them money.
Actually (if I remember correctly), it's not even the ISP that sends the e-mail most of the time. Lots of ISPs actually hire third-party companies to monitor their customer traffic and send these threatening e-mails to suspected torrenters. Of course it also doesn't help that some of these companies have gone a little overboard in sending out these e-mails.
>>714398416
150mbs? More like 30mbs.
>>714398356
here in britain they don't even do that, i think a torrent freak article says british isps practically tell you to deny and nothing can be done.
that said i download movies and games like nobody's business and have done for years with out a peep from my isp, i do have the unlimited package though
>>714398485
Most of the time it isn't (a lesson I've learned all too late).
But sometimes it is...
Sometimes...
>>714398560
You gotta be careful though.
Canada has some pretty funny laws that have been interpreted in strange ways in order to get people in trouble. For example: some hentai can be considered literal child pornography.
>>714398243
i work at said isp. Use a VPN.
>>714398634
Yeah, my isp said you have 1tb/Mo limit, I said I want no limit, they said y u no want limit, I said, I no have tv anymore, whoke fam stream everything, they said ok, £20 more a month pls
>>714393710
I've been pirating since I was 12 years old and now I'm 19, never had an issue with it. I'm romanian so I guess they don't even give a shit
>>714398386
Mainsteam/big name movies
i've downloaded disney movies and have gotten nothing
Music from major artists
does david bowie count?
American pornography
i think thats the thing i download the most and have gotten nothing
I got a "Stop downloading this!" type of e-mail from my ISP once many many years ago with a torrent and something really mundane like an episode of a tv show.
Freaked me out, and I read up on the whole "Just don't read the e-mail, and don't fucking use the e-mail your ISP gives you dumb ass..." stuff.
>>714398796
>>714394310
Croatia here - no one cares what you download - 40Mb/sec for 25$
>>714393710
>Have you ever been caught pirating?
As in time Warner sending me a warning; or as in my parents seeing uTorrent open?
Neither. I don't usually fucking care. There's much worse out there. And the accumulative amount of fines I would be issued could only be paid off by Forbes Top 100.
I live in Canada. Have used both shaw and telus and ive torrented all sorts of junk for 10 years. Havent heard jack shit about it. Doubt i ever will.
>>714398926
Yeah isp perks are bad news, used to work for a baby bell in the 90's, the software packages we gave customers allowed us to track them, and back door into their command line
>>714399336
And it was with Telus that got me dinged.
>>714393710
I torrent shit all the time, for the last 2 years. No problems. Must not be a big deal in my country.
>>714393710
I use Usenet so no I've not been caught, recently anyway.
Got a cease and desist from Sega back in the 90s I was quite proud of for copying Megadrive/Genesis cartridges.
>>714399429
Well maybe if you didnt download cheese pizza you'd be just fine.
I wonder if my ISP pays attention to the kind of porn I wqatch
>>714399528
Not so much the kind of porn, but they can keep track of the titles.
>>714399528
We don't pay attention,but we aggregate the data and feed it to govt agencies to sort out what if anything to do about it
>>714399336
Other pirates out there typically harbor ulterior motives.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that pirates out there actually turn a profit from what they download and sell to other countries overseas.
Sometimes pirates think they can use Tor to download 100Gbs and upwards of Tb's of music and videos without a person noticing, then complain about people not seeding.
>>714397419
https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
>>714399615
I hope they watch all my piss porn.
>>714399615
y tho
>>714395001
The worst that happens is a small fine dude.
Mexifag here, so no. not even care.
theres no laws about thath
>>714399690
From what I can tell, us govt at least is mostly interested in cp and snuff
>>714399690
Kek
>>714399750
Because we either do it voluntarily or we have to deal with lawyers fees sorting out warrant searches, your privacy is your responsibility not ours, check your TOS
>>714399835
Uploaders and distributors catch the most heat don't they?
>>714399835
What's wrong with snuff? I get cp that shits just wrong.
Being downloading games and music from PB for 12 years now and didnt have any problems with law
But i guess as i heqrd only germany is strickt for that shit in EU dont know for other countrys
>>714399980
>>714399999
>implying court orders
>implying you're a government run industry
>>714400079
We get tap orders and hand over data, the LEAs decide what who did.
>>714400081
Snuff has to be investigated to see if real or fake. If real, murder case is built I would guess.
sceneaccess.eu/signup
>>714400138
No, we try to avoid having to deal with court orders by just giving them what they want before they go get court orders...
>>714393710
public place with vpn. thats about as much as you really should do. get on craigslist and find some old laptop for 30 bucks and get psiphon 3, best free vpn.
Use seedr with a diposable email and thats an extra layer of protection but you on't be able to download big files without paying.
this is how I never got caught
>>714400285
Yeah I guess filmed murder is illegal to possess, get you linked to it if they saw it in your possession
>>714400491
I think they are more concerned with the murderers, nor the watchers
>>714400377
Yep. And who is they - lawyers? You telling me lawyers get court orders for ISP cooperation in an investigation?
>>714400491
what is possession to you? digital copies or viewing?
>>714400566
No, I'm talking about LEA, people like MPAA don't really bother with subpoenas bc they do their own investigation, and don't have the bandwidth to deal with our data dumps
>>714398368
Wtf 90+ for 7mb? In sweden you can get 1gb fiber for that price.
>>714400739
Who is LEA?
>>714400831
Law Enforcement Agents
>>714393710
Russian guy in thread
In region where I live personal computer is still very expensive and unbelievable thing
Pentium 4 or same Athlon XP based PC cost at least 1000$
Internet here we got thanks 13.4 kbps dialup technology. Very rich guys have ADSL 1-2 mbps modems.
Ask your questions.
>>714400619
Copies of it lol I don't just curious about it XD
>>714393710
>Have you ever been caught pirating?
>Did you get in a trouble?
Nope, because I don't live in a shithole where ISPs cuck me in a frequent basis :^)
>>714400448
Unless Psiphon 3 can get you past firewalls, you're full of shit.
And who the hell downloads torrents to the Cloud? Keep all your shit on an external USB and take your shit anywhere.
And your computer has an IP of it's own. It shouldn't be too hard for someone to find who is downloading Mb's of data on their network and confront you.
>>714400940
Actually most shitholes don't care. 1st world carriers do for some reason
>>714393710
I used to pirate shit all the time, started off small with music and shows, and started doing games, programs, etc. I decided to delete everything I've ever torrented and just start buying shit instead.
I didn't get caught, i just didn't want to do it anymore i guess.
Time Warner emailed my roommate bc he was streaming stuff. We believe it was bc the Showbox app or Chromecast or the combination of both. I cant remember the movie but it was new...so it could have to do w/ that.
Literally live in the middle of the US and I've never been caught once or sent something and I torrent a lot
Been pirating since I was 10 years old. 21 now and I've never gotten anything about it. Didn't even use a vpn until like 6 years ago.
>>714400906
Even if you had the fanciest hardware and access to a higher bandwidth, it would seem out of place for you wouldn't it?
Suspicious?
It's like cops pulling people over who are driving custom made chops and classic/antique/muscle cars from next year.
>>714400893
Like local FBI agencies? So when someone makes a public threat on 4chan, or someone uploads/downloads Tb's of questionable content, the domain's host is required under some national security law (or threat of prosecution under further investigation) to call who?
Local authorities and LEA, or the ISP?
>>714400994
That's not how networking works... Your isp assigns you an IP that their network sees, depending on how they are configured, you may have a public IP to yourself, or share with others on their network, also you may have the ip they assign you for 1 hour, up to the length of your contract with them.
Then you have the local network... Everything on the local network looks to the isp like it comes from just 1 ip... But again, the local network probably randomly assigns you the ip and changes it at regular intervals such as when you connect
If you followed so far, you now know that the ips have nothing to do with your computer... Now your nic will have a Mac address, but multiple NICs can have the same Mac address, and you can even change that address to match another computer and shoe up as that computer on the network... Io addresses don't mean shit
>>714393710
Hahahhahaha, one time...my mom got a letter from her ISP saying that someone had been downloading a porn.
>>714399824
nah, they are laws. bot mostlya they are about not selling cloned movies and/or music, but as far as i am concerned, there are now laws about pirating online stuff for your personal consumption, the niggest proble would be your isp cutting of your service, but that only happens when they do give a shit about pirating, its not required by law
Never gotten caught, never used a VPN. I torrent very rarely. Generally Japanese eroge, TV, Anime, some music - though I pay for spotify now.
>>714393710
I think i've been downloading for over ten years (emule, limewire and then mostly torrents), never got caught, not even a warning. I have had an account on a torrent website for a few years now, it works on a seed/leech ratio, 5tb uploaded 4.2 tb downloaded, i'm lucky I guess ?
>>714401491
Not exactly... They call us and say we need a dump on the activities of x ip address from z day to y day
We are not required to surrender the data without a warrant, but we surrender it anyway because cheaper and expedient
>>714393942
>>714394093
>>714395001
nt fucktards
>>714393710
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH4g_ua5es
>>714398520
>1993
>>714401841
And the equipment your local branch uses to send and receive that much data, the hardware your company uses, is all paid for by the company. And the company upholds some kind of security cooperation with the Federal government in favor of national security.
So I'm imagining a scenario where a person makes a public threat on an IP assigned by an independent ISP. Would that ISP have to cooperate with local authorities if such a tap request were made? Or would they be scrutinized for aiding the person who made the threat?
>>714402164
Good old days... I would dial in and connect to scene ftp servers via arpanet... Arj was best compression, got sim City, dune, civilization that way, took ages
Spain here, no one cares. Also godsend 300 Mb/s
>>714402247
It depends, there are situations where exigent circumstances allows Lea to bypass warrant procedures, but they would generally not even ask us in that sort of siruation, they would just backdoor in and take the data
>>714401547
No, your computer has a digital identity that can be traced wherever it goes. Each manufactured part has a serial number. Each part has it's own data that has programmed compatibility with your operating system. That data shouldn't be too hard for someone to trace; let alone see where it's been and connect the dots.
An IP address is assigned by an ISP right? And the person who owns and uses the modem and router, your VPN, can easily monitor what has been downloaded. then when you seed a torrent somewhere else, like your own home, authorities can still find where you've been.
I live in austria, "consuming" pirated material is legal, just distributing it isn't
>>714402562
This isn't TV... You can be tracked by behaviour patterns yes, but that is new stuff and even they don't really bother with that, they just hack you and compromise your system to send them what they want, but no, they aren't matching a serial number on your cpu to every packet you send
>>714394310
$90nzd per month for 2MBps speed here...
That's like over 140usd
what the hell? i get 300Kb/s for 14€/month
>>714402505
But this is all just a matter of what data your internet browsers have stored, right? This is just your internet browser activity? ISP's don't go looking into your personal computer's folders through some satellite or signal tower.
This backdoor you're mentioning would be Microsoft or Apple.
>>714393710
Subpoena'd. $3000 when it was all over. I was 15. I'm 21 now. Don't download German media.
Netherlands here, i've been downloading since 2006. I use usenet and torrents, my isp kpn never noticed i did. They probaly don't spy on me. I have 500 mbps.
>>714402892
I'm talking about backdooring into our servers and pulling logs in that instance... Then backdooring into your system depends on how secure your system is... If you're running a crypto Linux with only a lynx browser and no other repository software, chances are good you are okay... Lol but who does that?
>>714398368
Richfag in a 3rd world country?
>>714402786
So let's say you download a torrent using Firefox and uTorrent. Firefox has data saved in all sorts of folders for the sake of future password memory, quick access history, and content matching with cookies. When you download a torrent, not only is that magnet link data saved in a Firefox subfolder, but a uTorrent folder as well. And not only is that data saved in those main folders, but your User AppData and other hidden folders. Am i wrong?
>>714402989
Same, but I use UPC/Ziggo. Been pirating since before 2000.
Technically it's illegal in the Netherlands, but there is no active police presence to enforce it.
Btw, don't pirate progs unless you want your system compromised, there is plenty of Foss out there...
>>714403312
Not wrong, but your ISP isn't poking around in your local PC... Lea can hack you and get that data , but we don't
>>714393710
The only time I got caught was back in highschool. Nothing happened, but my parents got a letter from someone, I think the isp.
The funny thing is that the movie I downloaded was xmen origins, and it was the pre edited version. It was the whole movie without cgi added yet. It was horrible but funny.
>>714397228
Anyone know why this is? First email was about 2 years ago, most recent was a week ago. I've never done anything about it because they've never actually done anything other than send emails. Is Charter just surprisingly cool--basically just covering their own asses with the emails--or am I long overdue for a whippin' or somesuch?
>>714403132
Yeah, it's all about what you don't do isn't it?
But can you honestly tell me there isn't at least one white knight in every local branch that acts as an informant out of principle? Backdooring into time Warner Cable or Verizon, etc., can't be that fucking easy. That's like saying it's been the ISP's fault for security leaks and compromise this entire time, not the NSA.
And you can't just simply put in an administrator's username and password to back door. It takes actual hardware and mobility if not some kind of higher level access granted by someone working for that company.
>>714393710
Been torrenting since i was like 10 or something
Started out with my mom showing me limewire
Then I learned how to download games
Thats it, never caught (to me knowledge) and no problems whatsoever
>>714403515
That would be those silly hotspots in private vans wouldn't it?
>>714403648
You realize of course that AT&T has basically given the NSA carte blanche to everything in their network just because it was a hassle fighting with them? The NSA sits on top of all the major trunks... They have leveraged Cisco and others into building backdoors for them into routers... We maintain as much security as is industry standard, which means just enough to keep the checks coming in... To the NSA we are Swiss cheese
I've been pirating shit for so many years i can't even remember, my stephfather showed me how to do it when i was like 10 and from there on i've done it maybe once a week? i'm 19 now. Everyone here does it, even normies who do it to watch their newest episodes of glee or whatever the fuck they watch nowadays.
My friends father is a police officer and he told me that almost anyone with computer knowledge in the police force pirates from time to time. I live in Norway and i have never heard about anyone getting police on their door for pirating. Not even a notice in the mail.
>>714403803
No, that would be the free copy of Orazio you thought you were downloading from them, but didn't check the md5 on, or the crack you downloaded with your game, or the infected USB key your friend plugged into your HDD to share a paper with you
>>714393710
A friend of mine lived in Germany with relatives over a summer once, he downloaded a few HIMYM episodes and got a letter in the mail for a €300 fine.
I don't know if it's still outstanding, but he moved back home after the summer without paying the fine and they haven't pursued him overseas.
>>714394192
>Taco Belle
Mu fucking sides
>>714403964
Nope. But when you say AT&T, are you referring their communication systems, like antennas?
Do you realize how hard it is to believe that internet providers are behind AT&T in the internet hardware business?
been downloading stuff from time to time, never got in trouble, seems in here only way to get in trouble with piracy is by downloading shit that is made in here or licensed
>>714393710
Yeah, I got two of those "three strikes and your out" letters from my ISP. Movie piracy. Torrenting, with anything less than VPN, leads you to being caught eventually. Learn from this anon and get the VPN. But torrenting is on a death spiral anyway, there needs to be something new, totally anonymous, encrypted, and untraceable.
>>714404313
Okay here's how your non at&t ISO works...
You --> Isp --> at&t --> NSA --> internet
>>714393710
I get caught everytime unless I use a VPN
trying not to shill but I use VikingVPN and like it
When I get caught my internet stops working and I get a portal to my ISP website that says I need to turn off all torrent software and secure my network lel
.
>>714393710
Here in Aus, been downloading shit back since limewire/frostwire was a thing, still go on isohunt/piratebay, just download a couple movies/games a year, still not caught
>>714404487
>VikingVPN
how much is it?
>>714404427
So along when did internet domains and information/data systems belong to the NSA? When did the NSA get the great idea to monitor and control internet activity and privacy?
>>714404555
About 9$ a month if you buy a year long contract. Like netflix but now you can torrent all you want
>>714393710
I live in Mexico, we have no internet laws here. Or laws at all.
>>714404555
I like privateinternetaccess... You can pay cash for gift cards to restaurants or iTunes etc at a store, use that to buy subscription, provide no personal information on registration... Plus they are zero logs
>>714404517
same here.
although i have had a vpn for 2 years now.
> paying for something so i dont have to pay for something
>>714398562
I got one of those letters...so I don't torrent those kind of files anymore.
When I can afford a VPN...."game on"
>>714393710
Ironic greentext story
>dl shit since napster, breh all the way to torrents
>my ip address wide open for all to see
>not once have i been caught
>dl vpn that doesn't keep logs (inb4 falling for that meme faggot)
>i dunno what happened
>see a discography of a rock band i like
>in pb a commenter clearly stated he got caught
>fuck you, i got a vpn doe
>dl discog
>couple days later get pop up that blocks my internets saying i have to admit to rightscorp that i did dat
>had no choice
>pop up went away
>went to my isp account
>record of the dl was in there
>pop up said 2 more strikes and further action will happen or some shit (yeah, sure, okay)
>checked my isp account
>the discog is permanently in there on record
>just thanked goodness i didn't get caught with some fucked up porn title
>checked my torrent software, the vpn address is on there, so what gives?
>go online, my old ip address was still up when i dl the discog
>so now, every tiem i torrent thru a vpn i go online to make sure my real ip matches the vpn one
>>714404804
same guy, i don't have a vpn 1 because no NBN and shit internet, and 2 i'll get it when i need it
>>714404159
So what if someone plugs in an infected USB drive to a public server, like a school computer?
This all sounds like the hacker community's mistakes being exploited by national security, viciously vice versa.
>>714404634
November 4, 1952
>>714404700
>>714404658
now as good as VPNs are, how do you know they're not honeypots used by fbi/feds?
>>714404487
And what internet provider do you use? What state?
>>714404918
What sort of person do you think works at NSA? NSA is hacker crack den, all the toys, shit for oversight, the government paying you to hack people... Nsa is black hats wrapped in a flag
>>714404964
>>714404973
Mostly you don't, which is why you pick one you can sign up for with cash, not credit, and no personal identification
Have you ever read a post on /b/ and wondered whether or not it is copy pasta? It is almost as though half the posts are pasta. Maybe they all are. Maybe this one is. Maybe it is not. Maybe it will become pasta at some point in time. Maybe it will be pasta'd over and over in this very thread. Maybe more threads will be made filled with this post. Although I fear it, I wouldn't doubt it.
>>714405282
>like a fucking Privateer out of work
I've been using Pirate Bay (via Piratebrowser) for about 5 years and never had any kind of warning. To be honest I kinda use it like try-before-you-buy, if I like a film or album I'll buy the blu-ray or cd/itunes. If I don't like it then they lose out.
If everyone pirated then the studios would stop making films if there was no profit in it anymore, in which case we all lose so I try to give back where I can.
I subscribe to Netflix as well so I' not a total leach anyway.
>>714394214
Boner lost before getting to item 3
>>714405617
You want to do black hat shit and get away with it, you have to spend way more time and effort than you would just getting a job and buying shit
>>714393710
>live in shithole without any copyright laws somewhere in europooristan
>is slav
>torrent 9^11 torrents without any problems for 8 years now
>laugh
got a letter one time. literally nothing happened and I still use Pirate Bay with no protection.
>>714405558
Would that be those undersea cables I've heard about? Otherwise, how would we have ever communicated via wire with other countries over the phone, or through morse code, and telegrams - now internet?
I was figuring that satellites give us that ability in today's world. And don't we have NASA to thank for that?
>>714404973
I don't know but they don't turn off my internet when I download 10000s of movies and music.
I don't do anything illegal other than that so I wouldn't know.
>>714405047
Suddenlink Texas
Im downloading since my 10 years old (im 21) and i ve never ever receive anything
>>714405782
I see most movies I pirate at least once in theaters so I figure that's my contribution.
>>714398446
How the fuck do they shut down your Wi-Fi?
>>714405947
Weird. Maybe you should try a different internet service provider? And leave Texas while you're at it?
>>714393710
> live in russia
> never pay for movies/music/soft
> never buy singleplayer games
> never been caught
>>714406072
>>714405924
It goes further back than that... Sure NASA put the birds in the air but the Navy invented radio modulation, the carrier protocols, TCP/up and every other building block that shit is built upon
>>714405837
Nigga, who pays to be a pirate?
>>714398356
They have to protect the companies anon, if they don't profit, they won't develop. The same goes for medicines and whatever... What's the point of doing it if you won't get rich? Saving lifes? kek
>>714406299
The ones paying jail time
>>714406095
True, but I think we should also support companies that DONT record keep on their clients.
ATT has always kept phone records and the FBI has ALWAYS used the records to incriminate people. They think it is just ok to start mass data keeping on all civilians.
Sure I could move from texas but shit will stay the same in texas if we don't stand up to what we as the people want.
>>714406299
The conv at the point you jumped in was a bit past just pirating... But in the 90s was paid by local video store guys for bootleg Vidya cartridges
>>714406167
Also want to add. We almost never use the term "piracy" in russia as it's normal way of getting something. We rather use "licensed" for not-pirated products.
If you tell someone in russia you buy music or movies they'll laugh at you, buying soft or games is more normal, but still unrespected.
>>714393710
I downloaded a car once.
>>714406644
Was it a mitsubullshit?
>>714406235
>radio
I can't believe I forgot about that. So it was Naval science? Before satellite we needed to get these radio waves overseas to communicate with our soldiers.
And I'm assuming we just had a bunch of boats connected one after another?
>>714393710
what I find amazing is that fucking millenials think it's a fucking right and that pirating is fucking legal
some bitch in my class, whom I told where to find a textbook, told the rest of the class where to get it or that she could mail it to them because it WAS FREE
>>714393710
I got a cease and desist letter once for porn, but I got a VPN right after and haven't had any problems since.
>>714406759
>telling normies anything
RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>714406759
That is because everyone does it so whats the deal? It is understandable.
What isn't understandable is when someone gets in trouble for it when everyone else is doing it.
>>714406710
Back before the world's radio waves was so crowded you could pick up stuff broadcast in Paris in usa... And don't forget shortwave... You can talk to people all over, and lots of number stations still operate on shortwave
Have any NON-AMERICANS ever been caught pirating?
>>714406856
Stop stealing my radio waves bro
>>714406518
But the pirate system is based of of trade.
You have something someone else wants, and they have something you want.
Not all treasure's silver and gold.
>>714406708
i downloaded two bears
>>714406888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c1PML5kfbg
>>714406907
gay
>>714406906
Most piracy thesr days isn't tit for tat it's tit for rep tat for free for all
>>714406907
Whatever raises your mizzenmast
>>714393710
I fucking LOVE that the symbol of the Piratebay is a fucking cassette tape and skull bones. That shit is hilarious.
I assume it has something to do with how you could just plop a tape into any cassette player and click record and have an entire album at the click of a button.
So what is the difference between watching an advertisement for shit I don't want to listen to a song on youtube and downloading the mp3 to my phone so I can hear it when I want to and share it?
Are we saying that poor poor Metallica is going broke because I bought their CD and CDs aren't as practical as an mp3?
Where do you guys live ?
Pirating since 2004. Never even got a warning.
Eastern europe ftw.
>>714407069
>>714407131
The Metallica v. Piracy argument is assanine
>>714393710
I've been doing it for like 10 years now, never had any "been caught" or "you're in trouble" instances yet.
I don't use any VPN's or any shit like that either, just utorrent and common sense.
>>714406833
the problem is entitled brats, m8
>>714407195
What does Sam Hyde Ave to do with any of this?
>>714407171
Brazil, pirating movies and games since 2006.
South america ftl
Feels bad man
>>714407288
All humans should be entitled to information. We have a responsibility to educate
>>714407405
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLS-cpgbe0
>>714407405
Knowledge wants to be free entertainment is a different kettle of fish
>>714407519
entertainment isn't important and is selfish. If it is actually art and not degenerate art and teaches something important than you would care less if it is out there for free.
>>714407601
Couldn't agree more
>>714406877
ching ching chong chong ching bingbong
>>714394214
Oh yes spoof your MAC address. That way the very next device upstream from you will be fooled. Good job!
>>714393710
>doing it for 4 years thinking it was legal
Underage or retard
>>714405175
I think the argument is about the morality of hacking. anyone can do it, from Joe Schmoe to the director's of every intelligence agency on the planet.
So why does it mean anything different when someone 'hacks' into the cameras or computer of someone else?
Been pirating for 5 years now. Comcast emailed me once after i downloaded all 5 seasons of Eureka.Havent got caught since them. internet was getting shut down because the bill was triple than what they said it was going to be so in my last week i downloaded 200gbs of movies and a bunch of games. Last night i couldn't finish download Witcher 3 so on my shitty internet i continued to download the 30gb files and it took a good 3 weeks.
>>714407801
Yeah, fags don't get basic networking topography
>>714395059
I've been streaming vids for years now. I've never gotten any letters.
>>714407854
I guess this should be posted then
>>714396197
I feel the same way about it.
>>714404241
Welcome, newfriend :^)
>>714407909
Netflix isn't piracy
>>714406856
So there grew a need for security. And that began with Nixon?
And new communication technology needs to meet some kind of prerequisite set by the American government since it was the Navy that began working on what has lead to today's internet and the security hardware behind it?
I can understand the the concern for security. But this CCTV shit and cameras turning on by random doesn't sit well with the people who actually have a clue to what's going on. Is it all just bad intel? Big brother checking in to see if we're safe?
815 euros, I had to pay in germany
>>714408286
Big brother's primary concern is you not threaten big brother
Secondary concern is you not make big brother look bad by publicising that you are doing stuff they should stop you doing
>>714393710
>2073 torrents downloaded (movies, games, software)
>no vpn
>not even a letter
>>714400906
Nice b8
>>714408016
kys stupid kike
Eh, haven't received anything. But there's a company over here called Hedman Brothers, asking for a payment to not get into a large legal case. You can basically use those letters as toilet paper over here, Hedman Brothers have been to the court and lost a large majority of their cases.
It's basic scaretactics, "do this and pay this to not get this or that happen to you". They send out thousands of those letters and rely on some idiot paying the full fee from the basically a blackmail letter.
>>714408697
Look, I like to think that I'm against invasion of privacy as much as the next guy. But Big Brother makes money by (what I can only assume is) ensuring the safety of his citizens. I can't complain too much. I just don't like knowing that my camera and microphone can record whatever I'm doing and saying at almost any given moment. It's a powerful ability that can be abused by the wrong people for the wrong reasons - and has been.
And too many people, myself included, are unsure of Big Brother's ability to keep this power in the right hands, and to be used for the right reasons. The right reasons being along the lines of, 'protecting the innocent from harm'.
The 'if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear' argument is out of the question when people deem pirating to be 'wrong'. And that being that pirating is an economic issue, as in, our economic security is as closely related to our national security. Which they aren't. So pirating isn't a threat, and it shouldn't give the government the right to track our computers. And the government shouldn't allow companies like Comcast to invade our privacy either.
So it becomes less about Big Brother, and more about Media Companies hiring teams of hackers to collect evidence and then collect fines. Because whether a person can pay the ridiculous fines, or whether prison is anymore fiscal, doesn't mean these companies can't just pay off local agencies to look the other way.
>>714409206
Yeeeeiiii
>>714398368
30€ for 1.8 mb.....
>>714393710
Dutchfag here
been pirating for as long as I've had a computer, so about 20 years
amiga
>don't copy that floppy
pc
>warez collections cd's
>irc
>kazaa
>edonkey
>others
>torrents
>streams
>>714394192
Thats nice but who are you quoting?
>>714395059
Oldfartfag here. I did get a letter back in the Napster days. Did nothing with it, nothing ever happened.
Got a letter from my ISP because I downloaded the shit movie, Pete's Dragon. For some reason shit movie companies get butthurt their movies suck so go after pople downloading the movie no one saw. Lesson learned. I no longer download shit movies.
I have been pirating for years. I just go on thepiratebay and get whatever I feel like getting. Nothing has happened
>>714394214
Did this when I started. Got lazy. Now I just do it as it is. Virgin Media couldn't give a fuck by the looks of things... Plus I live in England so you'd think I'd have been v& by now but fuck all...
>>714398386
utter horseshite
I download music, films, porn, games etc every fucking day and I've never had any kind of letter or warning. I'm not convinced that these warnings actually exist to be perfectly honest... I don't use any sort of VPN or peer-guarding software
ANY CANADIANS ON HERE?
I've been torrenting for years almost entirely music. Never had one problem. Have I just been lucky?
>>714412623
being this new
I'm in Washington state in a rural area and use Frontier as my provider and have gotten nothing from them and i don't have a vpn.
Anyone else here use Frontier?
ever been caught by them?
>>714393710
No, If i torrent something that might be tracked, like current movies or tv shows I use my vpn.
I don't use my vpn when streaming
My ISP is pretty good, never had an issue, I do know others on shit-tier ISP's that have gotten letters for piracy however.
>>714413199
Virgin media is based and give zero fucks. And they're pretty much better than any ISP in the UK
>>714393710
no.never not in my country. I'm doing this more than 15 years.
if someone try to control this. the society will crush him. the government perfectly know that if they try to inflict a control on the pirating they will fall from power. they let this "freedom" to happen because this is the only think that keeps the mass busy.
and this is the only way as a user and consumer to punish the greedy corporations.
I like to have the choice to download everything for free.
>>714394310
India, 14$ a month, 50mbps, unlimited. Check mate.
>>714394310
Lithuania here 1G/S
using Skynet in capital
paying only 30 euros/month unlimited download
>>714414016
fellow canadabro here. I live in Ontario and use torrents all the time, never had a problem in 10 years.
>>714394310
>>714415225
not so fast India!
> live in a Balkan country.
> the EU back yard.
> 65mbps ; 11 Euros
> no restrictions
>>714393710
Been doing it on many ISPs in my country all the time and switched multiple times, none of them gave a fuck and they still don't.
Got caught, had to send a signature back that I wouldn't do again.
Stopped downloadung shit off my wifi
Forgot I had my torrent program still open on my laptop when I connected to my wifi. Had it up for a matter of seconds b4 disconnecting.
Internet gets disconnected.
Call internet company & get Indian fuck that just keeps telling me "we can no longer do business".
Switch to other internet company in area....Top speed in my area is 1.5 mbps...FML
Signed back up with old company after a year or so. Back to 100 MBPS speed.
No more downloading off my wifi. Not worth it.
>>714413031
I second this.
>>714414613
although theyre fuckers because they blocked a shitton of sites smh.
caught downloading porn and movies. I simply never opened the emails,but i stopped pirating those. anime, jap porn and vidya is still ok
>>714393710
A few letters but it's too risky now. I don't do it anymore for copyrighted material. VPNs are useless now that the FBI has new hacking powers listed in amendment rule 41. They are legally allowed to hack any computer that is using encryption services like VPNs, Tor, Freenet, etc. It's all under attack now.
Google amendment rule 41. Trump is inheriting these new hacking powers.
>>714393710
Oldfag here, OP. I beta tested the original bittorrent script under Linux years ago. Been at it all these years and never so much as received a letter.
>>714393710
I've been torrenting since the early 2000's when Kazaa was around. I'm in my 20s now and the last thing I pirated was 10gigs of music this morning.
I've never gotten a letter. I don't seed, so that's why I've been so lucking I'm guessing.
>>714415225
Wut is unlimited?? is there such thing as limited internet??
been downloading for i would say 10 years now, never heard anything
>>714394192
Link or name of the scene?
>>714408064
he is probably talking about popcorntime, putlocket etc
12 years here, never heard about any penalties or shit
>>714393710
I started "pirating" things with one of these, still 0 problems. I don't live in the land of the free tho.
>>714408064
You must be new here.
>>714398416
In Switzerland I pay 100chf (105USD) for 300 Mb (up and down). I have 1Gb available for only 25 Chf more but my server wouldn't be able to handle it.
If I switched providers I can get 1Gb for 65chf.
Pretty much the entire country is fiber.
>>714393710
I've been "pirating" for 20 years or so and never received a notification and never got a virus.
It's not really a problem in my country. ISPs have to send a letter to the offender when a company complains to them but there are no repurcussions at all. It's basically a "stop it or we'll say stop it again".
>>714393710
Well my friends family lives next door to the woman who made and pushed through the main swedish piracy laws. They invited her over for dinner and watched some downloaded movie. Nothing happened to them so why would anything happen to anyone else? especially if you only download and don't seed.
>>714393710
Never had an issue, but then again I only torrent a few things a year. The worst I've seen was a cease and desist letter sent to a friend of mine, and the idiot finally had his service shut down and had to pay a big fine after three warnings. Even then, he was downloading terabytes of shit every month back in the mid-2000's when amounts like that were a huge red flag.
>>714393710
doing it for like 10 years back from the kazaa/winmx/frostwire/limewire days and never been caught, moved on to torrents now though
torrenting for more than a decade. And never had any issues. Not sure if it is for the net neutrlity laws here or maybe they just don't give a fuck.
A guy from my street made the news here when he received a £10,000 fine for downloading one copy of Jumping all over the World by Scooter.
This was like 15 years ago in the Kazaa/Bearshare days, think it's a completely different world now and highly unlikely to happen.
>>714394707
This
>>714394310
Haha wanted to say the same thing. Are you on RDS?
>>714412623
Summer never ends
>>714393710
Currently typing this from my jail cell, why oh why did I have to download that new Game of Thrones...
i used to get warnings from my isp
but ever since I used peerblock + vpn the warnings disappeared
we already pay to go see movies at the theatre so fuck paying again for the same movie
>>714423420
>>714422553
Hehehehehehehehehe
>>714394707
kek
ITT, people with visible IPs admit to shit they did online. Kek.
