I think pirating from smaller ISPs is advantageous. Simply because a lot of the staff could not be as tech savvy to understand what you’re downloading.
Big ISPs, it’s a little harder but challenging and possible, because they know what to expect.
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Big companies are not inherently more tech savvy. Thats a misconception.
if anything it’s probably the opposite because smaller ones hire skilled, big ones don’t want skilled because you’d question their garbage practices and get fired so they hire numpties who don’t care or know
Big or small, use a VPN and take them out of the equation.
I don’t think it matters much but on principle your ISP should not be a rights holder of any media.
Just so let you know, if someone operates an ISP their staff is tech-savvy. Even if they are not, they still know what you download. They have logs and they are bound by law if some government agency wants your data. They will provide it.
no BC I use incognito mode
incog is ONLY useful to keep your browsing “safe” on your machine from someone looking at your history. Your ISP still knows where you went and logged it, you need a VPN to potentially hide from your ISP. Or, live in a place that won’t cough up your info. Historically in Canada, if we get “caught” pirating our ISP sends us the letter they received, wag their finger at us and move on, I’ve caught a few letters due to the kid
I’m regionlocked to one of the shit Big ISPs in the US, so VPN is required. Unfortunately, my experienced years of free roaming a smaller ISP is probably out of date because they easily could have been merged/bought out or otherwise notified that they need to start snitching.
But if you think you’re safe because you haven’t received the first of your 3 strikes or w/e, they might be building a case against you and waiting for the right amount of net total seeded infringement or right administration to prosecute you under.
I think it depends on the ISP. There are a few small ones that do not GAF what you do. I’ve been told “we do not care what you download, we only care that you can.” There are a few big ones that are too big to care what people do on their network.
That said, you should always take precautions. A VPN is a good place to start.
What are you pirating from your internet service provider? Or does ISP stand for something else I’m not aware off?
I’m assuming he means pirating while using the service of a large or small ISP
Yeah, sometimes the pedants of Lemmy get a bit grating (I’m guilty of it myself). Most people were able to understand that OP was asking whether smaller or larger internet service providers are easier to use for piracy without detection. Most who didn’t get that context scrolled past.
That being said… OP’s replies are hilarious LMFAO wtf is that shit
To be fair, “from” is not grammatically incorrect here, it just sounds weird to a native speaker.
If you read “from” as in “I come from Georgia,” rather than as, “I got peaches from Georgia,” then it makes sense.
Think of it as saying like, “would it be better to fly to Europe from a small airport, or a large airport?”
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I’m assuming you are a piece of shit then.
Get fucked.
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So lame.
Nice alt, bruh.
Cringe…
Got em
I can see it. They got caught in your use of from, which isn’t even incorrect. Via would have been a better word, but from works here just as well.
They’re reading it as you’re talking about pirating content that is owned by (from) your ISP, not what you meant, which is talking about pirating content from behind or via or even using your ISP. I guess through would have worked, too.
But the difference between me and them is, while I realise another word would have worked better, I understood exactly what you meant and didn’t think it was an issue. Though I admit I thought the first thing… at first. Hey, it’s early.
So let me get this straight.
You understand what pirating is, but you don’t understand what ISP is? How do you breathe?
I do understand what an ISP is that’s why I was confused how you would pirate from one. But it seems you just don’t understand how grammar works.
Simplicity is the same. Nothing changes from a technical standpoint. If you live in a country where the government monitors what you’re downloading, then use a VPN. No need to risk guessing if this provider will report you or not. You can’t fight the oppression machine alone by yourself.
