[–] hypfer 2 days ago
[–] nekusar 2 days ago
If you try to use a normal VPN, you get rate limited or blocked everywhere. But if you switch to a residential proxy, all those problems go away.
To be fair, if all you're doing is torrenting or similar copyright infringing actions, then a simple VPN is sufficient. But if you want to do web stuff, you gotta use a residential vpn. Not much way around this.
[–] hypfer 2 days ago
The point however is that this is crime and crime is incorrect and fundamentally shouldn't exist.
But, more importantly, as a serious business, you do not want to be seen doing crime or benefitting from crime or supporting crime or being near crime. At least in a working society that is.
[–] nekusar 2 days ago
Secondly, it's only for-profit copyright violations that are a crime. But as OFCOM learned the hard way, stuff illegal in the US can be legal elsewhere.
Thirdly, for some fucking reason, the US AI companies are immune to criminal statutes of for-profit copyright violations. Job creators, or some bullshit.
And I'm not sure exactly why you're so dead-set on "crime crime crime". It's all politics and manufactured criminality. And well, I don't particularly care if backing up my movies to a Jellyfin and sharing access is "ill eagle".
The AI companies are bulk pirating AND then selling that access.... But I'm the criminal? Fuck that noise.
[–] hypfer 2 days ago
Which then was countered with a broad range of classic HN dysfunction, hostility and pedantry.
When the truth of the matter is that it's actually just a decent idea for some use-cases and a less-decent idea for others.
But instead of acknowledging that nuance, an explosion of nonsense happened here.
I genuinely do not understand why you've suddenly started talking about yourself and your own residential proxy use? Why does that belong here?
[–] mitxela 2 days ago
[–] itintheory 2 days ago
[–] hypfer 2 days ago
Either by technical means or by a whistleblower.
Which might be a gamble worth doing, but also might not. And regardless, the fact that it is a gamble alone slows down velocity.
[–] geraldwhen 2 days ago
[–] hypfer 2 days ago
Yes, yes there is always something. Yes there can always be workarounds.
But that is not the point. The point is that things are made harder. That is the point. To make things harder
Not impossible. Harder
Jesus Christ. It's all just a game of probabilities and friction. One needs to understand that to understand reality.
In the sense that you do not have people that actively sell those services via their home internet connection.
The whole thing just exists because there's this whole predatory ecosystem that uses malware and malicious devices to sell that without the owners even knowing.
That makes it legally questionable, even though I guess technically it is legal enough? Still radioactive, so as a serious business, you do not want to be seen doing that.