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1 month agoThanks! I figure all this grey in my beard should be good for something.
BartyDeCanter
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Oh definitely. And it really depends on your ISP. Before the ISP consolidation it took enough work that sending out those letters to every small local ISP that they wouldn’t bother for Jane Rando who downloaded a few episodes here and there. Now that (in the US at least) most people use one of two or three ISPs who all have a cozy corporate relationship, it’s harder to fly under the radar. But if you have a good privacy-forward ISP it’s not a worry.
The Piracy Eras:
- Pre-DMCA: The golden age of piracy, no one worried about anything. Music piracy was common, video files were way to large to bother with.
- Post-DMCA: Possible prosecution from big copyright, but also hard to track individuals down, so not a lot of worry, but a lot of angst about it.
- iTunes Music Store: Did more to end music piracy than any legal action. Cheap enough and easy enough that a lot of people stopped bothering. Pirate Bay for video, expect multi-day or week downloads.
- Torrent tracking/poisoning and ISP consolidation: More prosecutions against small pirates put more of a damper on it.
- Cheap Streaming: Did to everything what iTMS did to music piracy
- Expensive Streaming: Now. Bringing back pirates, but people are more cautious due to 4.
I also run a very low end machine with 4GB ram.
The issue often isn’t the browser or even the website, exactly, it’s the tons and tons of advertising and tracking crap that is in the background of most sites nowadays.
The way around that is to run a solid ad blocker. uBlock Orgin is the best, but Google (and maybe MS? I don’t use windows) has fucked over plugins to specifically make things like it not work.
So, what you want to do is run Firefox with uBlock Origin with the more aggressive blocking settings in both uBlock and Firefox. Extra credit for setting up PiHole to block a different set of crap.
The one thing is that this will absolutely break certain sites. But fuck those sites, they’re fucking you.