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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old::undefined

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[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 8 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Why is VPN port forwarding relevant here?

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP's in US Canada and UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting, unless you mask your IP with the correct VPN.

[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shit they do that? Man that sucks. People go to jail? Or have to pay fines?

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago

Fines. And say you seeded a movie to 1000 people and a DVD of the movie costs $20, they sue you for $20000, treating it like you broke into a warehouse and stole 1000 DVDs of the movie.

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