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    Can anyone recommend a VPN service?

    I'm thinking that this might become increasingly useful and important. I'd love to hear your thoughts, recommendations, and experiences. TIA.
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    You get the warning email for Dexter-S05.torrent too, eh?



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    I have no idea what you're talking about. None whatsoever. No-sirrreee. Forget you even saw this thread...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Starfish View Post
    You get the warning email for Dexter-S05.torrent too, eh?
    E11.

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    I went with WiTopia in the end. I'm now using PSB from Atlanta, Georgia - or at least I 'should' be.
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    Hidemyass. $80 a year and I get 7Mbps from an IP in Vegas which streams netflix and spotify perfectly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sventek View Post
    I went with WiTopia in the end. I'm now using PSB from Atlanta, Georgia - or at least I 'should' be.
    How'd it work out, Sventek? Those pesky MediaSentry emails stopped now? @#$(@#*$
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    It works really well. The only thing that seems to be affected by it is my SmugMug photo uploader, but that's no biggy. The speed is the same, and everything else runs just fine.
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    Cool. Trying demonoid first, if I get another email I'm going to cut my losses, blame Akeracat for being norty on the net and give your mob another account.
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    You may be out of luck. Rumour has it that someone at my house has used Demonoid as well...
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    Try and stick to the closed invite only sites. All the notices I know of have come from using public sites such as Demonoid or Piratebay.
    Last edited by r0gue; 03-01-2012 at 05:51 PM.

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    If only I knew someone who cared enough to invite me...
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    That would be lovely, wouldn't it?

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    Yes, yes it would. For some reason I thought Demonoid was kinda closed - then again, the ease of joining should have bloody warned me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WiTopia
    Do you support torrents and P2P services?We’re a data security and privacy (not piracy) company first and foremost and although torrent technology has many legitimate applications, it is often used in the trading and sharing of media files with 100,000 of your closest friends.


    It is a fact that P2P sites are often riddled with viruses, law enforcement honeypots, identity thieves, as well as, of course, copyrighted material. We also hear regularly from customers that when they subscribed to proxy services that cater to P2P activity they were sometimes attacked through these sites.


    Suffice it to say that, all arguments aside, we’d be remiss as a security company to encourage use of these sites so , like most every other VPN provider, we must say that if your goal is to download or upload files that contain copyrighted content without the owner’s permission, please do not do so over our network.
    So... a warning couched in salespitch, or a wishy washy "no mr gubmint, we doing the right thing!"?

    Despite this little gem in the FAQ, anyone had WiTopia piss on them for torrents?

    Trying out a private tracker at the moment but getting nailed because (apparently) everyone has a more attractive ul rate than me. My ratio is shit, and buying ratio is going to get asspensive fasssssst.
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    No, but it's only been a short time. There's another service in Malaysia that looks OK, so I'll switch to them if I run into any problems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Starfish View Post
    My ratio is shit, and buying ratio is going to get asspensive fasssssst.
    Hire a seedbox for a month or two, that should take care of it.

    btw, anyone want a what.cd?

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    With a VPN, Witopia for example, what's to stop the U.S. Government, or in fact the movie studios taking them to court to force them to hand over details as to where you've been?

    It's all ver well for Witopia to claim to offer total privacy, but can this really be achieved?

    And does it mean i can preten to be in the U.K. So i can view motor bike racing on the BBC, and the video streamng that was on WSBK?

    The streamng from WSBK was blocked here as Foxtek had the rights.


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