"Cox did not profit from its subscribers' acts of infringement," judges rule.

One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users’ piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go “lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It’s not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don’t even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?”

  • Lemonparty@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    Yo! What’s a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.

    • UnfortunateTwist@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I personally like Mullvad, their practices, and their straightforward price of 5€/month. They’re not going to try to lure you in with discounts by subscribing for multiple months or years. Now if Mullvad has gone downhill, someone chime in.

      • MiaouEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        Mullvad doesn’t do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based

    • muix@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Just self-host a VPN on a VPS so you can enable disk encryption and disable logging.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Edit: looks like I need a new VPN…

      I use private internet access (pia). It’s reasonably priced, really good for the number of devices, and I don’t believe they keep logs. At least it used to be that way, but I haven’t checked that since I signed up a decade ago. I have had zero issues with anything or anyone while using it for any reason. Uptime is basically 100%. Also has mobile support if that matters.

      • Lemonparty@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Same, I used to use PIA for about a decade, but I could’ve sworn I heard they were one of the ones that had gone way downhill. Otherwise I never had an issue with them. I’ll have to do some digging, see if it was founded or just a reddit rumor.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          PIA’s service is still decent and offers all the features that other VPNs do, but they got bought out by a company that has added spyware to programs in the past. So many users jumped ship when that buyout was finalized, because it’s hard to trust their application or their service when the owning company has a known history of intentionally infecting their users.

          • Lemonparty@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            Okay yes that’s what I remember reading. I have Express VPN now, and while researching found it’s still surprisingly highly and doesn’t log. it’s on the more expensive side though, so I may still give proton or one of the other recs a try.