Sony victory in Cox piracy case could be overturned by Supreme Court.

Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate” and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.

        • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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          7 days ago

          Mullvad does this nicely with lockdown mode. It’s also really inexpensive and you can pay anonymously so the only record they have is your customer ID number.

            • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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              7 days ago

              I’ve never used Torguard but I’m guessing it’s probably pretty good too? The only ones I hear about a lot are the big ones (NordVPN and the like) and I’m always leery of the really large, common and corporate used VPN services.

              I ended up on Mullvad 7-8 years ago because of the recommendation of a SysAdmin I worked with at the time.

    • Carrot@lemmy.today
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      8 days ago

      I have a collection of 240TB of (mostly) pirated material. I’m uploading 10s of TB a month, downloading ~3TB per month. All going through a VPN, and have never received a notice. Granted, I have unlimited 5 gigabit service at a residential address, so I’m guessing my ISP is catering to people like me with that offering.