Most of us are aware how geoblocks are one more reason people nudge towards piracy. Well, I didn’t knew that companies imposed geoblocks even on free content.
Many US based websites are no longer displaying content to Europeans, since they can’t legally harvest data. Youtube, Instagram and other websites/apps playing licensed content are also increasingly disregarding countries where licenses are expensive and/or revenue is low.
I’d really look into getting a good VPN. Mullvad ($5/month) is awesome, or else Proton in the free tier (can’t pick the server but get one assigned at random, might need to restart to get one in a useful location).
Yup but that’s fine, they are full of crap anyway. :)
(can’t pick the server but get one assigned at random, might need to restart to get one in a useful location)
Oh, you absolutely can. You can download Wireguard or OpenVPN configs for specific servers even with free tier.
On Android I use: https://github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpnThough they don’t let you select servers in Romania and Poland. Perhaps they just forgot to update the download page.
Ah yeah, I’m in China so I need the stealth option, which doesn’t work with OpenVPN.
since they can’t legally harvest data
Oh, poor little things 🥺
Free proton has USA, Japan and netherlands
And as of recently Poland and Romania:
Guess I gotta update lol, sadly free proton can’t torrent
My favorite is streaming apps geoblocking contents and blocking access from all known vpn networks, then wondering why piracy on the rise again.
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Most of Protonvpn addresses seem to not be in those lists usually. I haven’t had any issues with anime sites, Netflix etc
That doesn’t mean it will continue to be the case, it might just also be that I have gotten lucky so far
The 2024 eBook experience (with a pocketbook e-reader)
No Piracy:
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Go to bookstore in webbrowser on reader.
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Pay for book
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Download book (you can only do this 5 times)
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Open book (not really the book, its a link to ad*be to download the book.
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Get network error when opening my fucking ebook I paid for.
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Troubleshooting for 5 minutes
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Proceed to piracy section step 3
Piracy
- Go to bookstore Website and pay for book (cause personal ethics but you do you)
- Ignore download link
- Go to website of preference
- Download ebook
- Enjoy without ad*be enshittification
*edits cause formatting
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Anybody remember when the fucking optical disks were locked to certain regions?
Getting FBI warnings in an non-us country
I remember buying a region unlocked DVD player that would also play DIVX discs. I just recently got rid of it when i moved and cleaned out my garage.
You sound like you aren’t from Australia! Vast majority of geoblocking is for free content actually (selectively free, that is). Things like Netflix US having different titles to Canada isn’t really geoblocking, unless it’s for a Netflix Original (not aware of any such cases)
Yeah, so much US content gets geoblocked here. It’s super weird, just a random clip from a show on youtube? woops, looks like that content isn’t available in your country.
Well at least we get ours back when we geoblock them from watching the AFL/NRL grand final. Right? Oh, no one watches it? Oh.
You can take what you’re given and be happy /s
TL;DR: You must buy but you can’t buy, therefore you can download for free because they don’t want your money.
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