Using an old laptop for piracy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ninakuup21@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello people I recently acquired an old(er) laptop through my workplace. I was initially planning on running a Pi-hole on it but after installing it I noticed that my router is causing issues with the Pi-hole so I gave up on that idea.

Now if I were to decide on dedicating it for piracy, would I be able to do anything that isn't viable on a general use PC that would make it less likely for these piracy activities to have legal and/or financial ramifications on me? Or would it be no different than using the PC I use for my everyday stuff?

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[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The main benefits is that is a separate pc that you can keep always online downloading/seeding or whatever completely independent of your main one.

Plus since is a laptop it has a battery and if electricity goes down will keep working for a while without needing an UPS. And maybe since it's a laptop it might be more efficient so energy saving, although probably less performance.

The legal stuff not much a difference, well you can destroy it without destroying the main one if the need arises, or encrypt it if your main one isn't but... I am not a lawyer neither HackerMan. But in any case it wouldn't effect much on the piracy case... specially if you are on the downloading side, if you are going to upload lot of content (not just deeding, but like the main uploader) that's another story....