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Another reason to sail the high seas (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by Oneandonlyzach@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it... Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.

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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Literally no one cares about a single person doing it for personal usage. It's not worth the effort for law enforcement. It's like busting a teenager for a gram of weed when the guy down the road is selling pounds a day.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago

Not unless they already have reason to look at you.

I'm not saying youre in danger, I'm just saying it's better to not publicize it

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Unless you have a reason to hide, no one really cares. If OP is in the US it would take at least two subpoenas (one for ~~reddit~~ Lemmy to get OP's IP address, and one to OP's ISP to match the IP to a physical address) to figure out who OP is. If OP isn't in the US then it gets a lot more difficult.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

We're on Lemmy, not reddit. Your instance admin likely doesn't have a legal team, if nothing else you'll be putting them at risk.

IDK why people are so flippant about this. The US intelligence agencies absolutely have the means and resources to surveil you if you give them the slightest reason to. Even if they DGAF about your pirating, doing so could flag you for further monitoring and they can do so even if you have a VPN in place.

VPN's aren't armor, they're more like camouflage. But if you're running through the thicket yodeling about the crimes you're committing, that camouflage isn't doing you much good.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not even since

It's not a crime, it's a civil offense, so the only people looking for you are, in theory, copyright holders, not cops.
Teenagers actually do get busted for small amounts of weed sometimes, no one is getting busted for piracy since 10+ years outside of a small handful of copyright trolls (so if you torrent the porn videos associated with their companies without a vpn).