More reason to use a VPN.
They’re not trying to actually stop you; they’re trying to keep the lawyers at bay.
And make sure it isn’t PIA… I am using it and i wasnt aware it was zionist controlled!
Mossad says hello. So does Palantir and Penlink. They are all drinking buddies. They drink data.
I paid for the sub… and I am strapping for cash for now. Once I am not I will find a different provider and ditch it.
Good luck. Avoid american vpns too
PIA is my third… or fourth, I dont remember. I used avast, nordvpn, expressvpn, and I even had McAfee come with my new (formerly) windows PC. But since McAfee is a sack of shit VPN with a logs policy it was no better than using no VPN.
What is your recommendation?
I personally use Proton but it has its own issues and is expensive for a lot of people. Ive heard good things about Mullvad too but havent looked into it
Or i2p.
Sounds like a bunch of us should put up seeds with titles like “This (1947) It’s A Wonderful Life (Public Domain) is better than (2025) Fantastic Four”
I like your style.
They’re just trying not to lose their internet service provider probably. ISP’s are even starting to threaten their residential and commercial customers alike because they can’t afford the lawsuits so network tech’s are starting to turn in individuals about compliance and such.
Yeah, this is just a student-run association running it, providing connection from university’s upstream ISP which apparently is easy to upset.
I posted this because I actually find this nice, as it doesn’t fully block torrents, but just specific ones, and they also make that clear. They could just block torrents and stay safe.Func fact: Some dorm rooms apparently actually have 2.5Gbit. I’ve seen the speed test. Of course, you’ll need a compatible network card. Most have “only” a gigabit.
In that case they should have been promoting VPN usage ‘’(^-^)
Not a new thing either z this has happened for decades now
Use a VPN, people! The “we’re watching you” is not a joke, LOADS of parties are watching your every action, actually
At least theyre making the distinction
Why would anyone, anywhere block torrenting? There is nothing illegal about it.
Coming from an IT perspective, I can tell you 100% that torrenting on a network can cause a bottleneck with the amount of bandwidth that it often can take especially if it’s not set up properly. Several years ago I remember working in a corporate network and we had our internet slow down to a near crawl because one person decided they wanted to torrent a movie during one of our busiest seasons. Let’s just say we’re able to track them down and they got fired on the spot.
NGL firing someone for downloading a movie seems like overkill
Knowingly pirating a movie on a company network and it causing a lot of disturbance for everyone else is pretty bad. Also could’ve been a new hire in probation period or something.
sounds like bad network admin. no single device should ever be able to make 100s or thousands of simultaneous connections, and the bandwidth should be reasonably throttled to prevent this.
Again, they knowingly did something illegal with company property.
It is bad network admin but if it was on a trusted network segment it’s not entirely unexpected.
Potentially opening up a issue with the internet service provider and other fines for the company you work for knowingly by doing something idiotic like downloading seems like a bad move.
That’s interesting, I always figured the router/OS or whatever did a decent job balancing network resources regardless of the type of application.
The feature is called QoS, and is available on even the cheapest router. Torrenting can cause network issues, at least on crappy infrastructure, not because of bandwidth usage, but because it opens a lot of connections and can overload a router if it doesn’t have enough RAM.
Tracking down and firing someone to cover your corporate iT incompetence is certainly a choice.
Well you also have to remember this was about 10 years ago Network infrastructure isn’t quite what it is today. Not only that but when somebody does something illegal on a corporate network that is something that legal deals with and is not a choice that is made lightly.
A better solution would just be to limit connections per client.
Or, not do illegal shit on a corporate network. Maybe do that shit on your own at home?
because IP holders have enough pull to make their bitching and moaning heard instead of fixing inherent issues to force people into piracy.
Do you want real answers or are you just expressing frustration? Because if you’re just expressing frustration then the answers will just frustrate you more lol.
debrid services for the win! just let someone else torrent it for you, and download it from them.
AllDebrid costs €3 a month and saves you any legal headaches.
I am saving that…
nice
Glad they don’t see the porn.
I wonder if there’s an anonymized version 9f torrenting software ?
…which is why today’s sponsor is NordVPN!
(don’t actually use NV there are much better options, this was for comedic effect)
What’s wrong with Nord?
Nord is owned by a shady company
it has google firebase trackers https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/652224/
use mullvad instead
It’s not too bad. The client is the usual bulky Electron trash though.
Nothing really, I’ve been using them for years and have had no issues.
If you’re just pirating movies it’s fine, as long as you’re not selling state secrets or anything like that you’re fine with nord.
Overall the marketing is dishonest/over promises and there’s some previous lack of transparency with data breaches along with being closed source. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordVPN#Criticism
There’s just better options: https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/
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*Builds privacy site*
*Embeds Google sheet*
That sheet seems to hold Nord in pretty good regard,
I used to use Nord. Happier with Mullvad, way less faff
How have you not yet realised to be very doubtful and suspicious of anything that’s heavily advertised on YouTube etc? Which Nord is like top 5 of along with Raid Shadow Legends, Raycon earbuds, BetterHelp and Manscaped. All, including Nord, having been widely known for years to be scams and/or just shitty products and companies. Do you really think they’d do those sponsorship deals if they were actually good and naturally got customers via word of mouth? All of this is so damn obvious.
aside from the fact it just doesn’t work on windows 10 anymore for me?
idk it also seems to not work for torrenting, one of my ISPs blocks torrent traffic when using it now
For real. I don’t torrent much rn but I absolutely would if I saw this
The Big Brother energy of that “We Can See You” eye in the middle is pretty high.
I mean, it’s an open “heads up” so better that than not informing their students at all
Yeah college networks are one of the biggest ones I would not trust unless I had a VPN going. Average computing? Perfectly fine. Naughty things? VPN up
You shouldn’t need to pay for a VPN to prevent your ISP from seeing whether your torrent is public-domain or not if you’re using TLS.
If you don’t use the VPN for normal things then you leave yourself open to indentification by correlation. It’s the same rule for naive Tor users. The more normal and distributed it appears in traffic, the harder it is to correlate other pieces of data they they already have access to.
indentification by correlation
Not in my college. They have plenty of IP addresses to not use NAT, i.e. every user gets their public IPv4, and authentication is done with WPA2-Enterprise, i.e. unique login.
Everything is immediately traceable.
Friendly reminder that the panopticon we live under today was considered horrifying a hundred years ago
It’s still horrifying today. We’re just powerless to stop it.
We didn’t start the fire…
Ryan started the fire
It was always burning.
Or even 25 years ago! They (and in many cases we) tried to warn them. Turns out the other “they” are happy to give it away for AI slop videos.
That’s not when they gave it away. It was well and truly gone 24 years ago lest terrorists win
VPN, even for legal stuff cause “we can see you” can f off tbh
VPN’s are the new essential subscription service for online content. Back in the olden times, we had to pay for minutes of using internet and long distance phone calls, today we have to pay for privacy and access to content we’re “not allowed” to see. And what you’re allowed to see or not is a strange, politically motivated list that is always changing.
Back in the olden days people scoffed at China fencing off the web, shutting down access to sites and whatnot. Now politicians in plenty of western countries actively talk about it like a good thing.
On top of that, the big visible VPN companies are all owned by the same one or two companies, and while they boast loudly about keeping you safe, they do fuck all for privacy. You’re just paying to give your data away. There’s a scarce few good private VPNs, but they also don’t tend to advertise much.
Well don’t leave us hanging, which one’s the best?
Personally I use Mullvad. They’re a Swedish company and I’m located in Sweden. They had their servers taken by the authorities, who in turn were unable to recover anything of use. That’s the best kind of audit you could get, and speaks volumes more than say, Apple self-proclaiming that their stuff is private with their source being “trust me bro.”
That said, I don’t think you should trust a random gay dude on the internet; my judgement is based on an event that happened here, I’ve no idea if their infrastructure looks the same everywhere. Look into how the companies operate, who they partner up with, who owns them, etc. and make that judgement for yourself.
I’ve been using NordVPN linux cli and I’m actually quite happy with it, good speed and server availability. Also tried Mullvad and is 5* also
Proton is my favorite (most servers to choose from)
Runner up is Mullvad and IVPN
I’ve been using Private Internet Access for probably 10+ yrs.
they say they don’t keep logs, and I believe years back they even went to court for it.
PIA VPN offers secure and fast VPN servers in 91 countries, no logs, and 24/7 support. Protect your online identity, access blocked content, and enjoy unlimited bandwidth with PIA VPN.
and for a 3 yr plan it’s like 3 bucks a month.
when I was living in the US yrs ago I was even using prepaid Visa cards to pay (almost) truly anonymously. one step removed and all that.
they also have the latest protocols, complete configurability on almost all devices, and split tunneling and port forwarding and the likes.
and no, I am not a spokesperson for them… just a happy customer.
if they have since sold out, please enlighten me. but I’m now in a country with less to worry about.
They uh…they sold out. Like a while ago.
https://www.hackread.com/private-internet-access-pia-vpn-sold-israel-privacy-concerns/
Who knows, maybe Kape is trustworthy, but the fact that they have roots in advertisement and have bought out, at this stage, 4 different VPN companies… no thanks.
Mullvad or Proton are both easy recommendations
But if that’s the extent of the approach you’d still be giving the same information to your VPN provider.
Most people would be better off just making sure all of their traffic uses TLS. If you also need to obscure your address from your destination’s host, then combine the two protections.
I got “busted” downloading Debian once lol
You say you can tell what I’m downloading? Mullvad says otherwise.
You can still download a car
But I would never do that of course. I would however shit in a policemans helmet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg (IT Crowd)I wish I could download public transit
Best I can do is a copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon.
That’s a pretty good deal.
You wouldn’t!
