17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Site Blocklist

Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by veqq on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:26PM (#41330368)

How much would you pay for that - compared to existing VPN solutions? You can find cloud hosts or server rentals in Bosnia, Colombia or wherever fairly easily.

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by amatecha on Friday August 23, 2024 @01:37PM (#41331114)

You can technically just get any ol' VPS and install the respective/relevant software on it. Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS, I guess :)

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by Ray20 on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:41PM (#41334113)

>Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS They almost always do. But many of them forbid only in tos, and not exactly do something about it

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by giobox on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:07PM (#41334287)

I used to do this, but virtually all streaming sites etc block VPS IP ranges now. The beauty of OPs idea is that you get a nice domestic IP instead of one belonging to AWS/GCP/etc.

I've also resorted to putting tailscale exit nodes in foreign relatives homes with Pis in the past.

There are enough weird issues with pretending to be a domestic internet connection from a VPS IP that I've given up trying.

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