One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It's not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don't even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?"

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Don't believe that you're always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.

Get a proper VPN, dammit!

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the end, you can't out-tech the law. You need rights.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your so-called "rights" won't hold to the pressure of massive media capital alone. It will erode away.

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have so far. It's still legal to use a VPN without verifying my identity. It's still legal, though difficult, to access the Internet anonymously. The local police department doesn't blanket monitor everyone's search history.

increasingly difficult tech solutions for privacy are a bandaid not a cure.

[–] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yo! What's a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.

[–] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

ProtonVPN

[–] UnfortunateTwist 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally like Mullvad, their practices, and their straightforward price of 5€/month. They’re not going to try to lure you in with discounts by subscribing for multiple months or years. Now if Mullvad has gone downhill, someone chime in.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago

Mullvad doesn't do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Just self-host a VPN on a VPS so you can enable disk encryption and disable logging.

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