Just a heads-up: no matter how safe you feel with your VPN, you shouldn’t share this explicitly on a public forum. You’re never as safe as you think you are.
Consumer level piracy is like the lowest tier of illegal (assuming US). VPN actually does confer perfect security in this specific circumstance, zero chance of consequences.
Literally no one cares about a single person doing it for personal usage. It’s not worth the effort for law enforcement. It’s like busting a teenager for a gram of weed when the guy down the road is selling pounds a day.
Unless you have a reason to hide, no one really cares. If OP is in the US it would take at least two subpoenas (one for reddit Lemmy to get OP’s IP address, and one to OP’s ISP to match the IP to a physical address) to figure out who OP is. If OP isn’t in the US then it gets a lot more difficult.
We’re on Lemmy, not reddit. Your instance admin likely doesn’t have a legal team, if nothing else you’ll be putting them at risk.
IDK why people are so flippant about this. The US intelligence agencies absolutely have the means and resources to surveil you if you give them the slightest reason to. Even if they DGAF about your pirating, doing so could flag you for further monitoring and they can do so even if you have a VPN in place.
VPN’s aren’t armor, they’re more like camouflage. But if you’re running through the thicket yodeling about the crimes you’re committing, that camouflage isn’t doing you much good.
It’s not a crime, it’s a civil offense, so the only people looking for you are, in theory, copyright holders, not cops.
Teenagers actually do get busted for small amounts of weed sometimes, no one is getting busted for piracy since 10+ years outside of a small handful of copyright trolls (so if you torrent the porn videos associated with their companies without a vpn).
Nobody is coming after you, don’t worry about it. If they were really determined? Maybe, possibly, depending on many factors but you’re a very small fish in a very big pond.
Yep, I’ve been screaming it from the rooftops for years and have gotten a few “stop downloading pirated content” letters from ISPs, and I’m still here.
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Just a heads-up: no matter how safe you feel with your VPN, you shouldn’t share this explicitly on a public forum. You’re never as safe as you think you are.
This isn’t communist China. He’s not going to get disappeared for this.
Annnnd he’s gone.
He’s gone, he’s all gone
Consumer level piracy is like the lowest tier of illegal (assuming US). VPN actually does confer perfect security in this specific circumstance, zero chance of consequences.
Literally no one cares about a single person doing it for personal usage. It’s not worth the effort for law enforcement. It’s like busting a teenager for a gram of weed when the guy down the road is selling pounds a day.
Not unless they already have reason to look at you.
I’m not saying youre in danger, I’m just saying it’s better to not publicize it
Unless you have a reason to hide, no one really cares. If OP is in the US it would take at least two subpoenas (one for
redditLemmy to get OP’s IP address, and one to OP’s ISP to match the IP to a physical address) to figure out who OP is. If OP isn’t in the US then it gets a lot more difficult.We’re on Lemmy, not reddit. Your instance admin likely doesn’t have a legal team, if nothing else you’ll be putting them at risk.
IDK why people are so flippant about this. The US intelligence agencies absolutely have the means and resources to surveil you if you give them the slightest reason to. Even if they DGAF about your pirating, doing so could flag you for further monitoring and they can do so even if you have a VPN in place.
VPN’s aren’t armor, they’re more like camouflage. But if you’re running through the thicket yodeling about the crimes you’re committing, that camouflage isn’t doing you much good.
Not even since
If I directly downloaded it, and am using lemmy on a different device, is there still a way for them to link my comment to my online behavior?
Your ISP has bigger things to worry about than trace a user through a VPN service and stalk their fediverse comments for piracy confessions. :)
Nobody is coming after you, don’t worry about it. If they were really determined? Maybe, possibly, depending on many factors but you’re a very small fish in a very big pond.
Yep, I’ve been screaming it from the rooftops for years and have gotten a few “stop downloading pirated content” letters from ISPs, and I’m still here.