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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by barfbagginus on Sunday April 14, 2024 @05:33PM (#40034682)
I am old fashioned. So I would use a VPN if I want to prevent my landlord from getting a cease and desist letter from a lawyer when I download warez. Mostly audio books, and textbooks, but also movies and music.

Ie, it's the use case where you Pirate all the media, and use a VPN as a security bandaid against anti-post-scarcity busybodies.

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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by ldjb on Sunday April 14, 2024 @05:40PM (#40034729)
Piracy is also listed under the "When to use a personal VPN?" heading.
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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by g4zj on Sunday April 14, 2024 @05:52PM (#40034802)
It is, but I believe the comment you replied to was in response to this line.

> Is there anyone whose primary use case for a personal VPN is not "Geofence bypass for region-locked content"??

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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by averageRoyalty on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:38PM (#40082247)
So... piracy, but worded fancy?

There's no ethical difference between faking your location to bypass licensing and copyright and downloading a file via torrent to bypass licensing and copyright. Both are piracy.

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