After a lengthy $10,000,000 lawsuit, TorGuard has conceded to movie studios and is now banning BitTorrent traffic and is now keeping logs on American users and servers.
This article is from March of last year, and a quick google seems to show that’s when most outlets covered this story. Am I right in seeing that this is a year-old story? The article mentioning things that happened in 2021 as “last year” caught my attention
I don’t mind too much, I didn’t know TorGuard was blocking that traffic or logging American users but now I do. So I appreciate the article in that regard but the post should’ve been titled like “Reminder that TorGuard tracks American users” or something rather than being presented as new info imo.
Yeah that’s basically my view as well. I don’t take issue with posting “old news”, so long as it’s presented as such. This is good for people to know, especially TorGuard users who are unaware, but the lens people use to understand a story changes depending on whether they think it’s a new development or an old fact, so some distinction is good
They are not logging American users; they disabled Bittorrent traffic for any user connected to a US server.
I still use it today for torrenting…if it’s from last year wouldn’t it not work anymore? I didn’t see an effective date
I’ve noticed within the last month I’ve had to switch location server to a non-American one. I’m not seeing in that article that they keep log info now though, do you?
No. And their website still says that they don’t keep logs, and I can find no other information indicating otherwise. If it was the case, I’d have canceled immediately.
Good thing. How else would they finance Transformers 9, or 13 fast 14 furious 15 drift?
Or the 100th marvel movie and tv show or some member-berries star wars show.
Hmm. I enjoy those things. They’re entertaining, expand on the things I like, and I can watch with my entire family.
I like other stuff too, but I want to be entertained by fantastical BS that takes me away from the shitty things in everyday life.
Guess what? While you’re pirating the content you watch, the rest of the world that doesn’t know how to pirate is paying for Fast 45 and Transformers 27… Geee…I wonder why they keep making those movies and not the ones you like?
Is the implication here that the average pirate has statistically different entertainment preferences than the general population? That it’s pirates fault that investors choose an established safe brand over novel, compelling, yet risky storytelling? I find myself skeptical.
It’s response to a complaint. Vote with your dollar. Just as with voting in elections, you don’t get to complain when you’re not participating in any capacity that has an impact on the result.
Can you imagine if they worked this hard to stop corrupt corporations from ruining everything…
10 million for private individuals…500$ fine for company’s stealing money from citizens daily…who owns who
I use PIA, and so far torrents still work. It sounds like the film studios are going after smaller VPNs or VPNs that make it obvious that they’re piracy friendly.
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