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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by looperhacks on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:51PM (#41332480)
You are downvoted, but from my experience, you are pretty correct. Most people I know will use a streaming site, then sharehosters (good old boerse comes to mind - Megaupload, Rapidshare and Uploaded were the big hosters I remember)

I even know of more people using Usenet then torrents! The amount of work to use torrents safely just isn't worth it for most people.

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by tourmalinetaco on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:10PM (#41332660)
They are downvoted because it was an obvious and low-quality statement, as another comment outlined. Torrents publicly expose IPs and thus can be seen by copyright Nazis, but streaming/direct downloading has so far been safe.
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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by wkat4242 on Saturday August 24, 2024 @03:17PM (#41340695)
True but it is possible for them to capture one of these sites and go through the logs to check for IPs. So it would be best to use these with a VPN also.

I'm not aware of this having happened for movie downloading but it has happened to data breach forums, the police in Holland have contacted some downloaders there after they took down a platform (raidforums): https://tweakers.net/nieuws/208638/politie-mailt-duizenden-n... (in Dutch, sorry)

So it's not unprecedented and certainly within the legal realm of possibility even though this is a different country.

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by wkat4242 on Saturday August 24, 2024 @03:16PM (#41340679)
> The amount of work to use torrents safely just isn't worth it for most people.

Using a VPN isn't a lot of work really? And that's more than sufficient. It does cost a bit of money but so does a good Usenet server.

The problem with Usenet is the DMCA takedowns so you have to be really quick these days, after a day the content is gone.

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