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Censorship happens
davidnix71:
The problem with VPN servers is they get sued over the content passing through the server. Most have TOS that allow them to cut you off if you torrent illegally with them. If the DRM police trace your torrent through a VPN server, they won't find it hard to prove what is going through it even though it is encrypted, because they seeded the torrent themselves just so they could snitch you out.
If the VPN is accessing illegal content, unless the server is in Vanatu, there will be pressure or DNS blockage against anyone who doesn't play along.
TOR sounds like a good idea until you realize you don't know who is actually on the TOR with you. They can still snitch you out or poison the content.
The better way to bypass content controls is usenet. Yeah, you have to pay, but as long as a few people upload whatever is getting banned this week, there will be an way around blockages.
yourlife:
Or you chould riot outside westminster :P
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: davidnix71 on 3 May 2010, 05:03 ---The problem with VPN servers is they get sued over the content passing through the server. Most have TOS that allow them to cut you off if you torrent illegally with them. If the DRM police trace your torrent through a VPN server, they won't find it hard to prove what is going through it even though it is encrypted, because they seeded the torrent themselves just so they could snitch you out.
If the VPN is accessing illegal content, unless the server is in Vanatu, there will be pressure or DNS blockage against anyone who doesn't play along.
TOR sounds like a good idea until you realize you don't know who is actually on the TOR with you. They can still snitch you out or poison the content.
The better way to bypass content controls is usenet. Yeah, you have to pay, but as long as a few people upload whatever is getting banned this week, there will be an way around blockages.
--- End quote ---
They can sue me all they want, every asset I own is registered in my girlfriends name and we have our own houses, thus she isn't legally my de-facto. The things we do for liberty.
Generally I simply depend on the second ammendment, and taking my own steps to stop piracy. I don't like piracy (when its not getting me cheap albums) and I don't think any FCC regulation would be a problem because they would have a hard time calling my server 'public' in the first place. In any case unless internet censorship consumes every single country in the world, I have a business model and a place to run it. I don't mind moving to South Korea or Taiwan if it comes down to it. Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito!
Calum:
--- Quote from: yourlife on 3 May 2010, 14:09 ---Or you chould riot outside westminster :P
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yeah, that's a good way to make change happen, it certainly showed the government what was what when that happened before the iraq invasion.
</sarcasm>
yourlife:
Didn't get that, if you would kindly rephrase that in a way a 14 year old autistic person would understand?
(I know nothing about Iraq, I don't watch the news, I code websites/computer programs or write information booklets/stories, not sit around rotting in front of the TV)
Yes I did just talk a load of rubbish
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