Anti-PIRACY Six Strikes Law Starts Tomorrow???

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I stopped illegally downloading things a loooooooong time ago. I look for uploaded movies online instead and just buy games I know I want instead of ones I'm not so sure about.

-shrug- I have nothing to worry about.
 

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I stopped illegally downloading things a loooooooong time ago. I look for uploaded movies online instead and just buy games I know I want instead of ones I'm not so sure about.

-shrug- I have nothing to worry about.

Where else are you going to look for uploaded movies?

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I stopped downloading movies and music illegally a long time ago myself, after I uh, had a friendly chat with my parents and haven't done so ever since. I still download stuff I probably shouldn't (emulators, legacy ROMs...guilty as charged), but this isn't going to stop people for using torrents. They cannot physically coerce people into not downloading illicit material. It cannot be 100% enforced. What people do is their own business, I want no part of it.
 

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I stopped illegally downloading things a loooooooong time ago. I look for uploaded movies online instead and just buy games I know I want instead of ones I'm not so sure about.

-shrug- I have nothing to worry about.

So if I just watch it on youtube or one of those rebroadcast streams I am all good? Bloody hell, that is where I have been going wrong all these years.

Re: usenet and safety.
Number of people pinched for downloading from torrents-
Several thousand at present, still quite a few if I ignore the "mailshot" type cases.

Number of people pinched for downloading from usenet in all its decades as one of the foremost sources for those that can not be bothered to maintain IRC, old style file lockers, new style file lockers or be a part of "the scene"
Zero unless you count people that fell foul of a call home mechanism in a program or something.
There have been some cases of uploaders being done and some odd cases of slander/libel and such like over the years (though they are not piracy related).

you can't break 256 bit encryption, no one can do that; it's physically impossible even with what the govt has for a super computer

Thankfully my chair has strong arms or I might have hit my head on the bookcase as I rolled about laughing. Failing that was it a quote from swordfish?
 
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So if I just watch it on youtube or one of those rebroadcast streams I am all good? Bloody hell, that is where I have been going wrong all these years.

Re: usenet and safety.
Number of people pinched for downloading from torrents-
Several thousand at present, still quite a few if I ignore the "mailshot" type cases.

Number of people pinched for downloading from usenet in all its decades as one of the foremost sources for those that can not be bothered to maintain IRC, old style file lockers, new style file lockers or be a part of "the scene"
Zero unless you count people that fell foul of a call home mechanism in a program or something.
There have been some cases of uploaders being done and some odd cases of slander/libel and such like over the years (though they are not piracy related).



Thankfully my chair has strong arms or I might have hit my head on the bookcase as I rolled about laughing. Failing that was it a quote from swordfish?

Isn't 256-bit AES encryption still incredibly difficult to brute force or decrypt?
 

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Well he means he's not downloading it and can't be prosecuted because of it.

Are we being sarcastic and my 1am addled brain is missing it?

If not then streaming still counts in some regards and downloading it into cache might also count depending upon the judge you get (various cases have tried various things here).
 

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