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Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

arstechnica.com Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

Sony victory in Cox piracy case could be overturned by Supreme Court.

Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs "have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate" and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.

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This terrifies me.
- I have a collection of 240TB of (mostly) pirated material. I'm uploading 10s of TB a month, downloading ~3TB per month. All going through a VPN, and have never received a notice. Granted, I have unlimited 5 gigabit service at a residential address, so I'm guessing my ISP is catering to people like me with that offering.
  
  Argh! pirate salute
- VPN.
  
  And make sure you bind it to the app, otherwise when it disconnects it will expose you
  
  Mullvad does this nicely with lockdown mode. It's also really inexpensive and you can pay anonymously so the only record they have is your customer ID number.
  
  I've been a Torguard user for almost 10 years now
  
  I've never used Torguard but I'm guessing it's probably pretty good too? The only ones I hear about a lot are the big ones (NordVPN and the like) and I'm always leery of the really large, common and corporate used VPN services.
  I ended up on Mullvad 7-8 years ago because of the recommendation of a SysAdmin I worked with at the time.
  
  As far as I know, this one was made for torrents. I push terabytes of data through it, up and down, no complaints at all. I avoid all the ones that advertise and lie on YouTube channels. Nord, surf shark, etc. Torguard is pretty small and offer a lot. I have it on my Zorin laptop, desktop, tv, phone and tablet just in case I need to change locations.

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