1 edit | A few problems with this How do you pay anonymously? Pretty hard to do these days. It's not like you can just walk up and pay cash. If they ever are successfully prosecuted, all the MAFIAA has to do is follow the money and everyone is busted.
What's to stop ISPs blocking this? They're already in bed with the MAFIAA.
What's to stop scumbags like BayTSP and others from signing up?
On the flipside, if people are willing to pay 5EUR for content downloads, why don't the MAFIAA just offer this and save themselves the trouble? |
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 fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
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Atlanta, GA | said by fifty nine:How do you pay anonymously? Pretty hard to do these days. It's not like you can just walk up and pay cash. If they ever are successfully prosecuted, all the MAFIAA has to do is follow the money and everyone is busted. What's to stop ISPs blocking this? They're already in bed with the MAFIAA. What's to stop scumbags like BayTSP and others from signing up? On the flipside, if people are willing to pay 5EUR for content downloads, why don't the MAFIAA just offer this and save themselves the trouble? The "follow the money" routine would not work, or I hope it would not work. In a like fashion, should we assume that if you buy bullets your intent is to murder someone, so we just arrest and prosecute you for attempted murder when you make the purchase? If you buy a bottle of vodka, we should then assume you're going to drink it all and drive drunk?
And do you really think ISPs are going to try blocking VPNs? I really want to see them try that.
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said by fifty nine:How do you pay anonymously? Pretty hard to do these days. It's not like you can just walk up and pay cash. If they ever are successfully prosecuted, all the MAFIAA has to do is follow the money and everyone is busted. Umm...yes, you can !
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Torrance, CA | said by rsa0:said by fifty nine:How do you pay anonymously? Pretty hard to do these days. It's not like you can just walk up and pay cash. If they ever are successfully prosecuted, all the MAFIAA has to do is follow the money and everyone is busted. Umm...yes, you can ! PREPAID CREDIT CARDS bought with cash That is soon going to be outlawed@! 
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said by fuziwuzi:The "follow the money" routine would not work, or I hope it would not work. In a like fashion, should we assume that if you buy bullets your intent is to murder someone, so we just arrest and prosecute you for attempted murder when you make the purchase? If you buy a bottle of vodka, we should then assume you're going to drink it all and drive drunk? If you pay for VPN services and you are caught uploading pirated material, the "follow the money" trail will erase any perceived anonymity you'd have.
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And do you really think ISPs are going to try blocking VPNs? I really want to see them try that.
Some already block/throttle BitTorrent. What's stopping them from blocking PirateBay's VPN? |
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Franklin, TN | reply to woody7
said by woody7:said by rsa0:said by fifty nine:How do you pay anonymously? Pretty hard to do these days. It's not like you can just walk up and pay cash. If they ever are successfully prosecuted, all the MAFIAA has to do is follow the money and everyone is busted. Umm...yes, you can ! PREPAID CREDIT CARDS bought with cash That is soon going to be outlawed@! Never!
They will just require a name and address, everyone will just make up some phony address, how is the store going to prove otherwise? The store isn't going to spend a fortune on some "verification" setup a few prepaid credit cards.
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