My point is, if you’re blocked traversing the routers across the sea you’re not reaching those other continents. That’s a bit of a simplistic way of looking at it, given satellite internet and stuff but my point is it is not that incredibly hard to block the routes. Especially with BGP. BGP on the internet also has some bodies regulating route ASN reputation, so those could be potentially null routed.

Anyways, I clearly have no clue what I’m talking about so I’ll stop there.

Core routers are the core.

Sounds cool but I just can’t think of why I’d want a GPU accelerated terminal emulator.

This makes me sad. I wanna believe in gog. The last bastion of hope for gaming.

That sounds fun and convenient to manage for the average person…

/s

Lol. To think you need to sniff actual unencrypted traffic to deduce information and draw lines is ridiculous. You don’t need to do that to incriminate someone, especially if there’s other evidence.

10% of 300k. Ooooo. But not the bonus, of course, which is the real salary.

I…what?

Look up how routing and VPNs and NAT work, then you may understand. VPNs existed in the business world long before consumers started becoming aware of them as “this lets me watch netflix in country X and pirate shit!” services.

Okay, so the two examples you’ve provided about those VPN services, have nothing to do at all about piracy. One is about cyberstalking and the other was about a child abuse investigation. Those are arguably more serious than piracy in comparison.

You’re missing the point. The point is that the “protection” doesn’t necessarily work, regardless of what you’re using it for, which undermines the purpose.

The fuck are you on?

If you are paying for something and you ultimately get busted and in financial trouble for using a service that says they’re going to shield you from this stuff, you don’t think you should get compensation? They aren’t delivering their end of the bargain.

OK some countries, ya I get it - I’m not in one of those countries so for my country, my view stands. Also you do keep some logs, else it wouldn’t be possible to troubleshoot connection issues. Active VPN sessions, etc, who is connected to what IP, session duration, etc.

Serious question, how does this work on Linux when using wine? Elden ring uses this one and it runs in Linux. It doesn’t have kernel access does it?

A single 1080p Netflix stream will consume about 4Mbps.

If you just stream music and media and browse the net, that’s an easy way to benchmark. If you’re gaming, higher speeds will not increase performance of online gaming - this requires quite little and depends more on latency (satellite/star link vs cable/fiber etc). The higher speeds will only help with more concurrent users or game/media downloads (if you pirate media, for example).

Zero cost.

VPNs are not required. Instead of egressing on your ISPs network, you’re egressing on someone else’s network. It’s kinda like paying for a second ISP so you can egress your ISP to go encrypted to your other ISP. What does it accomplish other than putting you in another law jurisdiction?

Even purevpn who said “no logs” handed over data.

"In 2017, PureVPN, which advertised a no-logs policy, supplied connection logs to the FBI during a cyberstalking investigation. These logs enabled the identification of a suspect by linking activities to originating IP addresses. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureVPN

"In 2016, IPVanish, another provider asserting a no-logs policy, furnished user data to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during a child abuse investigation. The information shared included the user’s real IP address and connection timestamps. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPVanish

You pay them, and for what? To just take their word for it? Sorry but it’s impossible to run a reliable network without some level of logging.

Not to mention that there have been documented instances Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), have been misused, leading to concerns about domestic surveillance.

This section allows the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to collect communications from non-U.S. citizens located outside the United States, even when those communications are routed through U.S.-based companies, such as cloud providers, internet service providers (ISPs), and tech companies.

At that point do you think you’ll get some form of compensation from the VPN provider?

That’s even worse.

No idea but I hope so

Exactly. Biden pushed for the bill.

Not really a trump thing, as much as I despise the guy, the article says Biden pushed for this.

It’s a bad bill and shouldn’t be legal. The NSA already has so much power.

Oh no :(. I hope this doesn’t mean some BS with new games and having them be PS6,7,8 exclusive until they come to PC.

No, sony, having titles exclusive to your Sony branded PC won’t make me buy a Sony branded PC when I’ve already got a PC.

Housing costs are a big one.

Must be a regional thing I suppose? I mean I get lots of other stupid spam call variants.