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While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (22 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (16 children)

MFW I went to upvote but couldn't because "error: VPN blocked" 😑

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I've never seen that one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That would probably be because your instance is different. Lemmy.world has recently blocked VPN traffic apparently because of bad actors uploading CSAM behind VPN. I also had issues with Lemmy with my VPN this week and either need to split tunnel or need to browse Lemmy as view-only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Those bad actors are really stupid, a VPN isn't going to protect them. You're not magically anonymous behind a VPN, and such material is obviously going to attract the attention of very skilled cyber security experts & law enforcements.
Idiots doing crimes never understand basic OpSec.

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