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Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I use QBittorrent, and Mullvad for a VPN (although I'll probably switch soon once my subscription runs out.)

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

Why are you switching away from Mullvad? My Nord subscription is ending soon, I was planning on subscribing to Mullvad for the privacy.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I'm switching for political/ideological reasons TBH. It's a good service and it works well, but one of the company's co-founders recently made a huge donation to the Örebro party in Sweden (as in, big enough to account for 72% of the party's entire income for 2025.) The party's leader, Marcus Allard, has called for mass forced remigration of immigrants, including people born in Sweden, and has referred to immigrants as "damn parasites."

In fairness, this isn't the political position of Mullvad the company, it's a personal donation made by one of the founders and the CEO and others have expressed discomfort with it. But the fact still remains that if I keep giving the company money, it will keep funding the co-founder, who will (presumably) keep funding the party and I can't in good conscience send money if I know it's going towards something I disagree with that profoundly, even in a roundabout sort of way. I only have about 30 days left on my subscription anyway so I'm going to just let it run out and then switch to something else.