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One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It's not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don't even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?"

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (64 children)

Don't believe that you're always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.

Get a proper VPN, dammit!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Yo! What's a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I personally like Mullvad, their practices, and their straightforward price of 5€/month. They’re not going to try to lure you in with discounts by subscribing for multiple months or years. Now if Mullvad has gone downhill, someone chime in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Mullvad doesn't do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based

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