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[–] grooveygroovester@lemmy.world 22 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

They're just trying not to lose their internet service provider probably. ISP's are even starting to threaten their residential and commercial customers alike because they can't afford the lawsuits so network tech's are starting to turn in individuals about compliance and such.

[–] shut@lemmy.pt 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

In that case they should have been promoting VPN usage ''(^-^)

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, this is just a student-run association running it, providing connection from university's upstream ISP which apparently is easy to upset.
I posted this because I actually find this nice, as it doesn't fully block torrents, but just specific ones, and they also make that clear. They could just block torrents and stay safe.

Func fact: Some dorm rooms apparently actually have 2.5Gbit. I've seen the speed test. Of course, you'll need a compatible network card. Most have "only" a gigabit.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago

Not a new thing either z this has happened for decades now

Use a VPN, people! The "we're watching you" is not a joke, LOADS of parties are watching your every action, actually

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bunch of us should put up seeds with titles like "This (1947) It's A Wonderful Life (Public Domain) is better than (2025) Fantastic Four"

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 23 hours ago

I like your style.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

They're not trying to actually stop you; they're trying to keep the lawyers at bay.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And make sure it isn't PIA... I am using it and i wasnt aware it was zionist controlled!

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Mossad says hello. So does Palantir and Penlink. They are all drinking buddies. They drink data.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

At least theyre making the distinction

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 110 points 1 day ago (2 children)

VPN, even for legal stuff cause "we can see you" can f off tbh

[–] Arcka@midwest.social 2 points 18 hours ago

But if that's the extent of the approach you'd still be giving the same information to your VPN provider.

Most people would be better off just making sure all of their traffic uses TLS. If you also need to obscure your address from your destination's host, then combine the two protections.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

VPN's are the new essential subscription service for online content. Back in the olden times, we had to pay for minutes of using internet and long distance phone calls, today we have to pay for privacy and access to content we're "not allowed" to see. And what you're allowed to see or not is a strange, politically motivated list that is always changing.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Back in the olden days people scoffed at China fencing off the web, shutting down access to sites and whatnot. Now politicians in plenty of western countries actively talk about it like a good thing.

On top of that, the big visible VPN companies are all owned by the same one or two companies, and while they boast loudly about keeping you safe, they do fuck all for privacy. You're just paying to give your data away. There's a scarce few good private VPNs, but they also don't tend to advertise much.

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[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Glad they don't see the porn.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago (8 children)

debrid services for the win! just let someone else torrent it for you, and download it from them.

AllDebrid costs €3 a month and saves you any legal headaches.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 23 hours ago

I am saving that...

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why would anyone, anywhere block torrenting? There is nothing illegal about it.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Coming from an IT perspective, I can tell you 100% that torrenting on a network can cause a bottleneck with the amount of bandwidth that it often can take especially if it's not set up properly. Several years ago I remember working in a corporate network and we had our internet slow down to a near crawl because one person decided they wanted to torrent a movie during one of our busiest seasons. Let's just say we're able to track them down and they got fired on the spot.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

NGL firing someone for downloading a movie seems like overkill

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Knowingly pirating a movie on a company network and it causing a lot of disturbance for everyone else is pretty bad. Also could've been a new hire in probation period or something.

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago

Potentially opening up a issue with the internet service provider and other fines for the company you work for knowingly by doing something idiotic like downloading seems like a bad move.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Do you want real answers or are you just expressing frustration? Because if you're just expressing frustration then the answers will just frustrate you more lol.

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 188 points 1 day ago (15 children)

...which is why today's sponsor is NordVPN!

(don't actually use NV there are much better options, this was for comedic effect)

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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 151 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The Big Brother energy of that "We Can See You" eye in the middle is pretty high.

[–] Microw@piefed.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

I mean, it's an open "heads up" so better that than not informing their students at all

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 119 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Friendly reminder that the panopticon we live under today was considered horrifying a hundred years ago

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