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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... (www.pandasecurity.com)
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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guess what’s also been increasing? Prices.

Guess what also has refused to go up? Wages

[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guess what also been increasing? The number of streaming platforms trying to out bid their competitors. You know what else is increasing? The number of streaming platforms going after account sharing and they wonder why people are going back to piracy. Piracy is king and no one will be able to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That’s what I’m worried about….billionaires will convince governments (who haven’t banned them yet) a “think of the children act” which will ban VPNs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

VPN is basically just a encrypted channel between 2 systems, while one of them forward traffic to the internet and unless they block/filter every encrypted connection, there is no way to block it at mass...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It can't be impossible because certain countries have been trying. Hasn't China already been fining people for using VPNs?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Way too many businesses rely on VPNs to ban them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Oh you sweet child. They only need to ban them for citizens, not for business / shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well….how does China and Russia and other authoritarian shitholes that have banned them operate?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I don't know about China, but Russia has not banned VPNs. They banned specific VPN services. I'm guessing it's similar in China. And there are plenty of grey and black market VPN services for people in those countries to use. And they use them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, at some point people will remember that it's possible to share things via USB stick or a drive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Man, those were the times... Borrowing hard drives from friends, burning CDs, sharing lists of who has what...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's scary. France and the UK are already well on their way to heading down that path.