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What do my fellow Canucks use for infringing on cartel copyrights these days, with the new laws passed and all?

Uhhh, RevTT? Also, slightly related, BitGamer bit the dust. Which sucks.

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Oracle wrote:What do my fellow Canucks use for infringing on cartel copyrights these days, with the new laws passed and all?

I just use a month to month VPN (privateinternetaccess, NL servers if I am torrenting) and leave it at that. I've had a few VPN accounts terminated due to "ToS violations", but never gotten notices.

Obviously, if you care, don't use public trackers (I don't care, for now).

In terms of any form of creative work, I am always in favour of the rights of any authors or owners of creative work to use and distribute it however they please, and support any laws against any form of unauthorized reproduction.

Although within reasonable fair use limits such as videogame footage, excerpts or sampling of films, music, or books, etc...

Julius Seeker wrote:In terms of any form of creative work, I am always in favour of the rights of any authors or owners of creative work to use and distribute it however they please, and support any laws against any form of unauthorized reproduction.

Although within reasonable fair use limits such as music sampling of a few seconds, screen captures of films and games, excerpts of books, etc...

Nobody cares!

I'm still on uTorrent through TorrentDay on Primus. I haven't gotten an email yet :-)

Eric wrote:

Julius Seeker wrote:In terms of any form of creative work, I am always in favour of the rights of any authors or owners of creative work to use and distribute it however they please, and support any laws against any form of unauthorized reproduction.

Although within reasonable fair use limits such as music sampling of a few seconds, screen captures of films and games, excerpts of books, etc...

Nobody cares!

The question was asked. So I answered.

Julius Seeker wrote:

Eric wrote:

Julius Seeker wrote:In terms of any form of creative work, I am always in favour of the rights of any authors or owners of creative work to use and distribute it however they please, and support any laws against any form of unauthorized reproduction.

Although within reasonable fair use limits such as music sampling of a few seconds, screen captures of films and games, excerpts of books, etc...

Nobody cares!

The question was asked. So I answered.

The question asked was how to infringe, not why you take the higher road like a good person, gawd.

Zeus wrote:I'm still on uTorrent through TorrentDay on Primus. I haven't gotten an email yet :-)

I'd recommend you at least use a VPN. Don't need the hassle when the letters start coming. I know you are cheap, but it's like as low as 4 dollars a month.

Eric wrote: The question asked was how to infringe, not why you take the higher road like a good person, gawd.

QFT.

But his response was anticipated.

VPNs? Is that what you guys call seedboxes?

Eric wrote:
The question asked was how to infringe, not why you take the higher road like a good person, gawd.

Ah, fail on my part, I misread the question somehow as "What do you think..." =P

SineSwiper wrote:VPNs? Is that what you guys call seedboxes?

No, a seedbox is technically great but the provider(box/bandwidth) usually offers you no assurance that they won't hand over logs when feds come knocking. If you are gonna utilise a seedbox for heavy sharing/downloading, then you better make sure you either own/operate it (and ensure it does not tie back to you) or pay for it/access it in a way that isn't trackable. Personally, if i was gonna actually rent a seedbox, I'd use a VPN to access it.

Sure, at the end of the day, everyone is trackable. But making it hard as hell works for now.

I am pretty sure you know what a VPN is, but just in case, it's just a seperate server you route your traffic through, to hide your real IP/DNS(essentially joining a swarm of other users on the VPN) and, due to encryption, remove ISP monitoring and/or throttling.

Edit: I think the IP address I am currently on is for Toronto. My speeds are still fairly respectable. If I am torrenting, I'll swap to a NL server. My speed takes a hit but it's not that big of a deal.

I use a private tracker that actually manages to be a secret and hasn't accepted new members for nearly a decade and Usenet as a backup if it goes down for a couple weeks (happens every year or three) to change the domain name or some other reason.

I don't think I've been on a public tracker since 2005.

kali o. wrote:

Zeus wrote:I'm still on uTorrent through TorrentDay on Primus. I haven't gotten an email yet :-)

I'd recommend you at least use a VPN. Don't need the hassle when the letters start coming. I know you are cheap, but it's like as low as 4 dollars a month.

You have a recommendation for a good Canadian one?

Zeus wrote:

kali o. wrote:

Zeus wrote:I'm still on uTorrent through TorrentDay on Primus. I haven't gotten an email yet :-)

I'd recommend you at least use a VPN. Don't need the hassle when the letters start coming. I know you are cheap, but it's like as low as 4 dollars a month.

You have a recommendation for a good Canadian one?

You don't really want a Canadian one (data retention laws), just one with good speed/performance and a wide variety of server locations.

That said, I really do like privateinternetaccess. They are smaller, but offer really great service.

kali o. wrote:No, a seedbox is technically great but the provider(box/bandwidth) usually offers you no assurance that they won't hand over logs when feds come knocking. If you are gonna utilise a seedbox for heavy sharing/downloading, then you better make sure you either own/operate it (and ensure it does not tie back to you) or pay for it/access it in a way that isn't trackable. Personally, if i was gonna actually rent a seedbox, I'd use a VPN to access it.

I pay for it in pounds, the server is in France, and I have full root access. So, unless the RIAA is going to tap Interpol to shut down my box, I seriously doubt I have anything to worry about.

Also, the feds aren't going to come knocking on a seedbox when it's only using private trackers. They would have to A) get a hold of the logs from the private tracker, B) get a hold of the logs from the seedbox itself, and C) get a hold of the logs from my ISP. That's a pretty lengthy chain of events, and the "feds" really don't give a shit. They just want to shut down the trackers and call it a day.

SineSwiper wrote:I pay for it in pounds, the server is in France, and I have full root access. So, unless the RIAA is going to tap Interpol to shut down my box, I seriously doubt I have anything to worry about.

Also, the feds aren't going to come knocking on a seedbox when it's only using private trackers. They would have to A) get a hold of the logs from the private tracker, get a hold of the logs from the seedbox itself, and C) get a hold of the logs from my ISP. That's a pretty lengthy chain of events, and the "feds" really don't give a shit. They just want to shut down the trackers and call it a day.

A seedbox is moving the sharing to a remote box -- so you are still connected in some way (usually payment method is the big mistake people make). I don't think your ISP is an issue, since you probably just download the files with some sort of encryption straight off the box...I don't see why you wouldn't do otherwise. Your only concern is how private your tracker really is -- if it isn't (or stops being so), then your server provider gets the correspondence and it goes from there. France isn't exactly a friendly p2p country.

Do I think that will happen? Nope, easier targets for bully tactics. All I was saying was I'd rather use a VPN if I was gonna share heavily from a seedbox. Then, even if your box is compromised, they need to prove it was you that accessed the seedbox via FTP or whatever from a swarm of shared IPs (VPN).

kali o. wrote: That said, I really do like privateinternetaccess. They are smaller, but offer really great service.

Thanks, I'll definitely look into it

Speaking of.. we have a few RevTT invites if anyone wants one. The ratio regulations are a PITA though.