>heckin' torrenting a game without a VPNrino and 3 proxies?>Uh oh bucko, you did a fucky wucky! you'll get a letter in your mail and pay a fine!>pirating is too dangerous!Does this actually happen anywhere or is it just an online meme?
It happens to third-world negroids(Americans)
>>737701467happens in america but you won't pay a fine (unless you leak/host something big enough)most isps just send toothless letters, some will shut off your internet for a short period of timei think there was a recent court case that found them non-liable for torrenting of copyright shit, so this behavior may change soon
It happened to me once (american) when I pirated a square enix game. every since then i would buy a month of VPN if I had a square enix game i wanted to try, and would usually download a bunch of movies during that time too
I've been pirating for about 20 years nonstop, I've gotten 2 letters.First from my isp for pirating some movie I didn't watch.And second from LucasArts for starwars empire at war.I ignored both of them.I only use a vpn for 4chan.
>The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in March 2026 that ISPs (like Cox Communications) are not liable for user piracy simply because they provide internet access, overturning lower court rulings that sought to hold them responsible. The Court decided that knowing subscribers are infringing is insufficient for liability unless the ISP actively encourages or facilitates it.At least in the US now ISPs dont care if you pirate.
>>737702774So how are publishers going to defend their IP's now? Not that I'm defending them, but I'm curious what they are supposed to do.
>>737702682What vpn actually works with 4chan? All that I’ve tried are blocked
>Yes, you vill own NOTHING and be ha-
>>737703267All of them work if you become a passcuck
>>737703141I think your ISP will still give you up, they just have no liability to protect IP.
>>737703141>So how are publishers going to defend their IP's now?get better security/DRM.for example ISPs and pirates are not responsible for the Avatar movie leaking. It's all Paramounts shitty opsec.
>>737701467I have literally never suffered a single consequence from pirating, and I don't take any precautions, which is surprising for australia the nanny state.
>>737703141Defend their ips would imply if I said "This is a character named blipbloop the rapist" I suddenly created something of value, when in reality ideas and stories are free and IP has no value except what they attribute to it through throwing lawyers at it.
I live in first world (Central Europe) and I've been torrenting things since I was a teenager ans nothing ever happened to me
>>737703317Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of being “anonymous”?
>>737701467My entire family were pirates back in the good ole days of limewire and TPB. We got so many emails from Cox I'm pretty sure we got barred from them. It was largely for music or big name films the first week of release. I think maybe one game got us an email it was some AAA shit back around 2012 or so. Now all I pirate is anime and the random old movie I wanna watch.
>>737701467it happens in certain countries like Germany
has anyone even gotten in trouble in the US for personal use piracy in the last decade? i remember it being a 1 in a 100,00 instance back in the 2000's. i know the big players that do it for profit get fucked eventually, but like the small fry who's just downloading a couple TB's of 4k rips. i got multiple warning emails through HS and a bit after for torrenting movies and TV shows, but never vidya. told my parents they wouldn't do anything and sure enough whatever film distributor for Let the Right One In wasn't actually going to take some 14 year old to court for pirating the movie.i don't even bother torrenting anymore since disk space is at a premium with how fucked vidya file sizes are now.
How do I convince my family to start pirating stuff? Or is it just a lost cause?
I got letters from two different lawyers threatening to sue me for torrenting tushy porn. Just ignored them and never got served. (US).
>>737702774based black conservative judge Clarence Thomas doing the US a favor with reasonable supreme court rulings
>>737701569no it doesn't.
>>737701569Europeans*
I don't normally pirate, but I am going to once I lose access to the 400-500 games I have on the Amazon/Luna game client
