Hi all.

I've pirated before, but on my own independent network. For reasons I won't get into I've gone from living independently to living with roommates, and while I personally don't have anything against piracy myself, my current concern is that because things are on a shared network, I don't want them to get dinged by our ISP should I get caught in the act.

Beforehand, because it was my own network, my actions, my consequences to face in the rare circumstance that I do get caught (which hasn't happened yet), everything was smooth sailing.However, even if the likelihood of this happening is low, I don't want others facing consequences for my own actions.

What are some ways I can generally mitigate this issue? I mostly just pirate movies, and was curious if using streaming websites from FMHY or using SoulSeek would have the same risk as torrenting.

Edit: My region is Canada to help.

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Canadian laws and/or enforcement is pretty weak in Canada. The worst thing you'll get is a scary email or two but that's it. That being said I pirate a lot so I just use a VPN.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Would you say it’s similar in the US? I’ve never heard of anyone getting anything more than a nastygram from their ISP.

    (People profiting from downloading excluded of course)

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