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coolfission“This show is not available in your country” is the one that pisses me off the most. The Internet connects the entire world and then we have unnecessary artificial barriers like georestriction for no reason. There’s foreign shows I’ve been wanting to watch but they’re not available on torrents and only on these georestricted platforms.
7101334What about using a VPN?
Idk if sites have ways to block that now
Rusty@7101334 @coolfission they do but they get circumvented fast.
The real way the gov/big tech (they are one and the same) will shut this down is by making vpns illegal, and making your ISP beholden to this law, and the next step is to make your OS verify who you are with Id or biometric. This means anyone using Linux or graphene os etc will be marked a criminal. All part of their plan.
yeah and we’re already seeing that with how now you need an account with your personal information just to use software. And everything is requiring a phone number and SMS verification to setup. I miss the days when all I needed to create an account on major sites was an email and password.
Idk, given they haven’t even cracked down on things like Monero or the dark web, I’m not super nervous about the immediate future of VPNs. Even the guy who ran Tornado Cash, which was basically just a money laundering website, essentially just got a slap on the wrist. The elites in question also have less political capital and more resentment from the masses than ever. What you’re saying isn’t impossible, but I don’t see it as an impending doom scenario.
There’s also the question of how much being “marked a criminal” really matters. I’ve technically broken the Controlled Substances Act, potentially rendering me guilty of a federal felony, just about every day for 17 years. But even though that’s the law, it’s not enforced. The speed limit in California is 65, but everyone - and I do mean everyone - in the fast lane is going 80. Many countries have already banned VPN, but even in supposedly more restrictive countries like China, people still get their hands on them.
I do really need to learn how to use the dark web just in case the ropes do tighten around the clearnet, though. Never hurts to have a backup plan.
Even VPN isn’t enough. Ex. One time I wanted to watch a show that’s only available on Amazon Prime India according to justwatch. VPN isn’t enough because I’m using US-based Amazon account and I have to create an Amazon IN account per Amazon’s policies. And for that I need an India phone number for verification. So of course I don’t want to spend money on account setup especially since I don’t know if it’ll work. So I setup Azure VM based in India (in case they use location) but it still got stuck on the phone verification or puzzle loop so there’s nothing I can do unless I find a friend in India and use their account :(
And it wasn’t available on any piracy sites I’m guessing? Yeah that is rough. I know it took me quite some time to track down a copy of the movie Blueberry for similar reasons. (Weird French acid western)
yeah not available on any torrent sites. I checked all of the major ones through Jackett and it returned no results. If you’re curious, the name of the movie is “Kulkarni Chaukatla Deshpande”. There’s a couple movies like that that are available on Amazon Prime India but not on torrent trackers.
I found it free online in 5 minutes 👀
Given that you literally attempted to pay for it and were unable to, I’m going to post the link here for you then delete it after you reply so hopefully no one gets mad: irishrsa.ie/…/watch-mrs-deshpande-movies-free-hd-…
