Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

If you actually read the article, you see that this problem is 100% solvable if you use a VPN.

This is for the Netherlands, but it’s about the anti-piracy group not allowing defeats in court on the basis of GDPR and ISP refusal get in the way of a good harassment.

Good read if you want higher blood pressure.

"injured rights holders"

🙄🙄🙄🙄🤮

What I don’t understand is how an IP address used as an identity? If you have CG-NAT there’s a good chance you share your IP with 5-6 other people (even more possibly). Alternatively you can say I keep my WiFi open for guests so anyone can walk by my house and torrent on my IP (idk NL law but maybe the court will consider this negligence)

Use a VPN. Keep Sailing.

Many copyright holders believe that if they’re able to communicate with pirates, a proportion will change their behavior.

Yes, they will probably be more careful next time

Fuck this group with an engorged cactus. Pieces of shit.

One thing I always find curious is these "rights holders" assuming a 100% sales conversion from piracy when, in reality, it's probably closer to 1-10%

Even if they do make it to court; how do they plan on translating an IP address into the ID of the actual infringer? (not the ISP subscriber, they can't be assumed to be the same, particularly in court)

Just because I pay for my families internet connection doesn't make me responsible, culpable, or even aware of their activities. Even less so now that I'm not going to receive any notice of potentially illicit activity.

If they could haul people into court based on just an IP and get somewhere useful, they'd have done it hundreds of thousands of times over already.

BREIN. There's an evil villain name if I ever saw one.

I suspect this is not going to go well when they find poor people who torrent for the community and try to squeeze them for blood in the courts, or find that an academic server is used to seed in it's idle time.

This figured into the cruel, heartless reputations of the MPA and RIAA that persist to this day.

Can someone TL;DR the actual "worse" thing?

BRB switching my VPN location to the fucking NETHERLANDS

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN

How sad do you have to be

imagine if they spent half as much time going after abusers or billionaire tax cheats as they do people who download game of thrones from seven years ago.

I watched a thing about copyright and trademark enforcement where the corporate organization was somehow able to gather a team of 50 police at tax payer expense and march them into a Sunday market in order to capture and shut down market stores selling fake knockoffs. You could see how wildly unpopular it was with the entire crowd around them where some shoppers even continued browsing and trying to purchase goods from the shut down stores even with cops standing right there trying to make the crowd move on.

Copyright and trademark infringement against multi-billionare companies with continuous record profits is seen as a victimless "crime" at best by the vast majority of people, even reasonably well off people too. The only repercussion if you're "caught" should be just paying the actual construction/reproduction cost of the item which is pennies, they weren't going to make this sale at their ridiculous retail price in the first place and their real losses are miniscule at best.

And that is why I don't torrent, living in Germany. Even just leeching will put you on the radar of, at best scam law firms, at worst motivated rights-holders.