Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14806043

Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy - Divisions by zero

One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users’ piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go “lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It’s not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don’t even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?”

Don’t believe that you’re always gonna be protected py some judge somewhere.

Get a proper VPN, dammit!

Yo! What’s a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.
I’ve heard proton and mullvad are pretty good
mullvad no longer portforwards, so probably not a good option to torrent with. proton is good if you use their whole ecosystem.
Proton does port forwarding
I do miss port forwarding but could you explain why its necessary for torrenting?