[DaGamer!!!]

Hey guys, sorry to ask this but I am kind of curious as to how things stand as of now. Has the ODEX thing blown over? Or are they still tracking people who DL animes? What about paid sites in the US or whatever? Sorry if this has been covered before....guess I'd had my head buried in the sand for a while. Kind of curious as I dun mind paying to DL anime LEGALLY....

[DragonFire]

Crunchyroll. Go get yourself a VPN tunnel endpoint in the US of A and watch all you want.

DF

[DaGamer!!!]

Originally Posted by DragonFire

Crunchyroll. Go get yourself a VPN tunnel endpoint in the US of A and watch all you want.

DF

Thanks for reply, but I can already watch....want to know if DLing is possible LEGALLY (from US sites) cuz I dun need the hassle if ODEX is still playing Big Bro.

[XTimX]

gimme your GFX and I'll stuff your HDDs to their max capacity full of Anime lol.

That includes your second rig's HDDs as well.

[DragonFire]

Afaik you can legally dl from Crunchyroll since they have distribution rights of sorts. Have to purchase those copies tho.

DF

[XTimX]

o.O DF is online, get on MSN !

[XTimX]

You're looking at this world

But the way is too simple to live

with a light heart

世界が愛しく回り出す
魔法をかけてあげるよ！

:3

Miku-sama !


Oh how godly she is.

[XTimX]

O btw I might be wrong about the lyrics, doing it by ear D:

[DaGamer!!!]

Hey, thanks for the replies guys, I think I have some understanding of the matter....so ODEX's still being a bother, eh? Oh well, guess I'll just watch for the time being.... The anime I'm most interested in are Naruto Shippuuden and Bleach, gotch these two I happy liao.

Edit - BTW, XTimX, my gfx is obsolete liao dah, in light of the awesome present gen nV and ATi cards. But I'm still happy with their performance so it's OK.

[XTimX]

Tsk tsk you got 3870X2 + 3870 right ?

lol gimme the obsolete 3870

my 4850 in RMA for like a month -_-


Wahahaha me can pass you HD naruto

[teelotes]

Here's the million-dollar question:

Does VPN help protect your privacy? (Not in relation to crunchyroll.)

In other news, I think BayTSP is now actively targeting foreign users.

[DragonFire]

In relation to P2P over VPN,

The whole idea is being difficult to persecute. Would you go after those requiring additional legalese spanning multiple countries, or those out in the open who are easy pickings?

You'd need to take a court order to a multimillion dollar VPN services company whose very own business is customer privacy to gain access to records they may or may not keep.

After you get access to any records they may have, it is an uphill task taking action back to the individual countries in the case of foreign subscribers; Those countries' legal systems may or may not support your actions. The paper trail is further blurred if the foreign subscriber uses a "traceless" media like western union to pay for the account.

In short, too much work for returns that may not materialize.

I'd rather go after that college student sitting unprotected in his dorm room, or that elementary school kid downloading stuff in clear from his room.

DF


Edit: btw I am in no way suggesting that you use VPN to breach copyright laws and MDA filters. This was posted for technical/sociological debate. You are free to refute my POV anytime =3.

[XTimX]

Originally Posted by teelotes

Here's the million-dollar question:

Does VPN help protect your privacy? (Not in relation to crunchyroll.)

In other news, I think BayTSP is now actively targeting foreign users.

O.O me late reply D:

Damn I missed this post lol

[XTimX]

Originally Posted by DragonFire

In relation to P2P over VPN,

The whole idea is being difficult to persecute. Would you go after those requiring additional legalese spanning multiple countries, or those out in the open who are easy pickings?

You'd need to take a court order to a multimillion dollar VPN services company whose very own business is customer privacy to gain access to records they may or may not keep.

After you get access to any records they may have, it is an uphill task taking action back to the individual countries in the case of foreign subscribers; Those countries' legal systems may or may not support your actions. The paper trail is further blurred if the foreign subscriber uses a "traceless" media like western union to pay for the account.

In short, too much work for returns that may not materialize.

I'd rather go after that college student sitting unprotected in his dorm room, or that elementary school kid downloading stuff in clear from his room.

DF


Edit: btw I am in no way suggesting that you use VPN to breach copyright laws and MDA filters. This was posted for technical/sociological debate. You are free to refute my POV anytime =3.

Speaking of which, I think I'm somewhere in the middle...

The users that do not have properly setup torrent clients fare the worst, unencrypted traffic.

[DragonFire]

LOL no matter what encryption you use, the honeypot method of grabbing IPs will always be able to grab your IP.

DF