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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd guess it's first gonna be used for streaming TV shows

I thought they were already being protected by DRM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda, but it doesn't work very well. Using video download manager you can download pretty much every video from the web

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you recommend me one that can be used to download DRM protected content from OTT platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Mubi? Might well as archive the content I watch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly I can't, netflix won't let me watch anything on Librewolf/Firefox on linux. I'd recommend looking into getting a good proxy, a Jellyfin server and also the *arr stack (Sonarr, etc...)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, personally I use ProtonVPN. Iirc they don't care about copyright laws because they don't really apply in their country, I might be wrong though

Also make sure your ip doesn't get leaked by your torrent client

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using PIA for sometime. Has port forwarding and have been liking it so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't know about that one, you can check for IP address leaks here https://ipleak.net/

Also https://browserleaks.com/ is pretty useful

And last but not least, inform yourself if PIA is trustworthy, some VPN providers gave information about their users to the police