I was just reading through the interview process for RED, and they specifically forbid the use of VPN during the interview. I don’t understand this requirement, and it seems like it would just leak your IP address to the IRC host, which could potentially be used against you in a honeypot scenario. Once they have your IP, they could link that with the credentials used with the tracker while you are torrenting, regardless of if you used VPN while torrenting.
I’ve been on red for over 7 years now. It’s one of the best resources for music on the internet. Calling members “nobodies” for defending a community we care about is pretty lame.
I understand being skeptical about requiring the use of home internet to connect to the site. But, it’s kind of a requirement to keep people from avoiding bans, using accounts with stolen credentials, or selling invites (big problem).
I’ve been on red for over 7 years now. It’s one of the best resources for music on the internet. Calling members “nobodies” for defending a community we care about is pretty lame.
Disagreed, people will defend their community whether it’s a good community or not. And yes you and the others here sticking up for them are nobodies to me, and likely to the rest of us in the thread. People think the practice is shady, and they’re right to, a tracker could easily use such information against you if they fold or turn. But see, people who are with them either don’t think of these things or they deliberately avoid the topic because, like you yourself said, they’re defending a community they care about. So even if the ones they follow do things that are generally sketchy or seen as unacceptable they will still stick up for them, because they are there and they care about them and are willing to ignore the bad and shady stuff.
I understand being skeptical about requiring the use of home internet to connect to the site.
Clearly you don’t because if you did you wouldn’t even bother trying to stick up for them, making excuses for them, or trying to make me feel bad for calling you and the others who stick up for them what you are to people here, nobodies.
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I’ve been on red for over 7 years now. It’s one of the best resources for music on the internet. Calling members “nobodies” for defending a community we care about is pretty lame.
I understand being skeptical about requiring the use of home internet to connect to the site. But, it’s kind of a requirement to keep people from avoiding bans, using accounts with stolen credentials, or selling invites (big problem).
Disagreed, people will defend their community whether it’s a good community or not. And yes you and the others here sticking up for them are nobodies to me, and likely to the rest of us in the thread. People think the practice is shady, and they’re right to, a tracker could easily use such information against you if they fold or turn. But see, people who are with them either don’t think of these things or they deliberately avoid the topic because, like you yourself said, they’re defending a community they care about. So even if the ones they follow do things that are generally sketchy or seen as unacceptable they will still stick up for them, because they are there and they care about them and are willing to ignore the bad and shady stuff.
Clearly you don’t because if you did you wouldn’t even bother trying to stick up for them, making excuses for them, or trying to make me feel bad for calling you and the others who stick up for them what you are to people here, nobodies.