Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

56516 readers

770 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others

Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

Torrenting:

Gaming:

💰 Please help cover server costs.


Ko-fi	Liberapay

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

How do VPN companies get away with DMCA? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

44 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've noticed many people promote VPNs for torrenting to evade legal troubles in some places. But I wonder how do VPN companies get away with legal complaints? Especially if their servers are located in Germany or Japan, where piracy is heavily penalized.

p.s. I have never used a VPN for piracy, and I have never received any DMCA emails.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] circuscritic 81 points 4 months ago (3 children)

DMCA is an American law with American jurisdiction.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But America is the world?

Every time the spaceships come, it's defending the white house, which is the most important house on the planet.

[–] circuscritic 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, is this about Independence Day? Or the DMCA?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Devil may cry: aliens

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Nailed it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All the same, didn't seem to help Kim Dotcom or the many others that are operating pirate sites outside of America when American companies bitch about copyrights

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And America controls all of the fucking Internet. Especially all main social networks and search engines.

Americans, especially after 9/11 happened, feel entitled to catch criminals (or at least what they deem so) all around the world and beyond.

[–] circuscritic 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay ... All of that could be true, and then some, and it still wouldn't give the DMCA any legal jurisdiction in Germany, or Mexico, or anywhere else that isn't America..

Is this thread about some moral invective? Or is it about the DMCA?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In a just world where everyone minds their own business, it would be true.

It's the fault of people who live there for not fighting for abolishment of this hellhole of a law.