Re: Virgin to pass on details of porn downloading customers
 

I agree it's on borrowed time. If you use them correctly, it's easy to find content that hasn't been taken down but it takes a fair bit of investment (Time and money) to do this.
It seems to be shifting towards streaming via torrents anyway, via the likes of popcorn time which has a built in VPN. Not entirely sure how they manage to run that all but I imagine they'll start charging at some point and in that instance you may as well just pay for netflix.

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UHD porn just isn't nice. There is being able to see too much. :sick:

480p is just fine, slightly soft focus.

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VPNs are awesome. Saves the powers that be a ton of work having to monitor in many different places when they can just grab from endpoints.

Re: Virgin to pass on details of porn downloading customers
 

Grab what, though? ;)

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Raw data streams.

If they're clever they can even de-anonimise the VPN users.

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Yup - people forget one of the aspects of traffic analysis is knowing which traffic needs to be analysed....;)

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Then make sure you use a decent provider? I doubt the copyright trolls are going to go to such extreme lengths. Anyone beyond that with the resources to do such interception isn't likely to be after your porn habits.

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Well 3D then, often looks fairly blurry and lower resolution than actually recorded just due to your eyes fuzzing up but you get the extra depth that makes you 'feel like you're really there'

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Indeed, they're after Silk Road and the likes

Re: Virgin to pass on details of porn downloading customers
 

Wasn't copyright trolls I was thinking of. If they were to start intercepting in that manner they'd be on their way to jail fairly rapidly.

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I sure hope so =\

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You'd have thought after the NSA got caught unconstitutionally wiretapping they'd be on their way to jail too but nah, they get a free pass. And the copyright troll media companies abusing the legal system seemed to get a free pass too, as long as money as being passed to the right people.

Re: Virgin to pass on details of porn downloading customers
 

Well they are still liable.

It up to you too make sure your equipment is secure.

If your not secure and somebody downloads illegal stuff you can go down for it.

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Ah yes, the good old backwards and archaic British legal system that holds pub owners, bus companies, and coffee shops liable for what every passer by on the street does on their wifi.

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Has that actually been proven yet, in an actual court of law in the UK?

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You don't need to 'prove' what's clearly stated in law...

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What's "clearly" stated? Nowhere in the law does it state that the bill payer is liable for the actions of someone using their connection. An IP address is not a person. It's illegal to pirate stuff, sure, but that does not mean that an IP address caught in a torrent is proof of the bill payer being the pirate. To my knowledge, this has never been the case and no court has convicted the bill payer purely on an IP address alone.

That doesn't stop these companies sending threatening letters hoping for out of court settlements, but again to my knowledge, nobody that has ever challenged them has ever been found guilty in court. Tell them to go away and they will, because the legal ground is extremely shaky.