Removing DRM from a legally obtained copy is not illegal in itself.

It is technically not illegal to remove the DRM, if the purpose is just to read it and the DRM is not compatible with my reading device. I just still have to honour the lending agreement I made with my local library.

IDK about movies/TV shows being in decline here, it seems to be in better shape now than when I first left the sea 15 years ago. New stuff, especially movies, hits the trackers way faster than they did “back then” and are easily available from public trackers. I can still find all the older things I want, granted some it only on the private trackers I’m using, but it’s being kept alive. Old or niche media has always been the hardest to find with torrents, but it really feels easier now than it did when I first started out 25 years ago.

As for books, I rent most of them from my local library as e-books, strip the DRM so I can read on me reader, and immediately return so someone else can rent them. I haven’t really needed to pirate a book in years by doing it this way.

We don’t have plunder, that would imply that we’re stealing.

I’ve used seedit4.me before, but they’re really expensive if you want any meaningful amount of storage on them.

That’s what I meant for giving it to us for free.

Fair enough, that wasn’t clear to me at least.

Printing and binding is expensive, not to mention a waste of paper, you can’t really expect them to front that cost IMO. He should have just given you the PDF instead printing it.

Unfortunately what you and I consider bullshit harassment laws are not necessarily (and often not) considered that by governments. We can both agree how ridiculous something like this is, if it happened, but I severely doubt courts would have a similar attitude towards it.

Switzerland is not some magical safe haven outside the reach of agencies like Europol.

Unfortunately this is likely from an EU country, which usually carries a little more weight when it comes to cross-border law enforcement co-op.

My current client has only been running for a little more than two months…but it’s something at least 🤷‍♂️

If they are required by law to only sell to business with a valid licence, they also have to document that all their customers in that country have a valid business licence.

By selling it to someone private, even by proxy, would be illegal and they would be liable to lawsuits by doing so.

But what a PITA it would be if you have to use a seedbox for everything, and also expensive if you want/need to keep seeding torrents for extended periods of time so you’re not just doing hit’n’runs. But yeah, piracy is pretty much always going to find a way to exist.

And seedboxes of course does nothing for the far more important general online privacy.

No you just need to disallow VPN providers to sell access without a business licence, that way the VPN provider can’t legally give you access to their network unless you’re a registered business, and it would simultaneously remove options for anonymous subscription like mullvad VPN.

Enforcing that you need a business licence to buy a VPN is easy and requires very little. They suddenly can’t sell you a subscription if you can’t provide the business licence.

The phrasing of the law would most likely allow use of VPN for commercial use but ban for private use, so it’s unlikely to have a major impact on coorporate IT work in general.

The article also mentions this VPN ban in a context of VPN services being marketed specifically for piracy use as the scope rather than “legitimate” VPN services in general.

But yeah, these people can get bent…

No I want full access to my home media server for streaming, I have very little use for SSH only in this case.

Is it creepy what people collect data on their own viewing habits so they can visualise data for fun and keep track of things they’ve watched? I’m not sure I understand why that is creepy TBH. It’s not like people are collecting data on viewing habits of random strangers.

LMGTFY

TL:DR it’s an application for gathering statistics on jellyfin users and watching habits.

Yeah this actually works, but only specifically for openvpn on 443 in TCP mode…anything wireguard is blocked regardless of port.

This did the trick, ingot my tailscale to stay connected by using my phone AP to log on and then switched to hotel WiFi…thanks