The way they catch you is by downloading a complete “Linux ISO” you seeded. Their log from that download shows your IP and that’s the evidence.
So either don’t seed a complete “ISO”, or use a VPN from a provider that will laugh at info requests from German lawyers.
Safest way is to make sure you only torrent Linux ISOs that can be legally shared according to their copyright license, of course ;)
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Yeah, “don’t do anything” is horribly advice, at least in Germany.
I managed to avoid the lawsuit by showing the lawyers who wanted to fleece me that I had legal representation and collected enough evidence in my favor to make it difficult.
All they had was a file and an IP address.
It was a back-and-forth of letters between me, them and the court, which eventually refused to formally open a trial.
The data will be safe to play on a linux box.
Whether you’ll be safe depends on where you live and whether you have a VPN in a different country.
I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie I torrented someone on my network allegedly torrented from Piratebay (Germany).
Why not manually configure a LAMP stack, editing your dotfiles with ed?
Sir, I don’t understand. Who needs a sysadmin in the cloud anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir.
TIL “L4TL”
I think the response may have been one too, at your expense.
Then you have like 20 ingredients
Potato and Mayo = potato salad
no.
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Sounds like a very complicated solution to a problem you could solve with a guillotine.
Did you mean Ed?
photogimp
I think the reason so many people are diagnosed with ADHD is related to how our society looks like.
I wouldn’t even consider it an illness or defect. Our brains are just wired differently.
In the past, this would have been beneficial for the survival of your tribe. But if you live in a modern city and work in an office, it makes you unable to deal with the challenges you normally face.
Even just 30 years ago, the pressure to work efficiently and the hustle culture were much less pronounced than today.
Whenever I am out in nature hiking, hunting or kayaking, I don’t have any issues motivating myself and don’t feel like anything is wrong with me.
But in daily life, I barely function without meds.
And it even made more sense the way it was.
You use the UI from left to right, the way we are used to look at things:
Choose camera orientation -> Take pic -> Look at pic
Nothing left wing about the current German liberal party.
It’s basically the polar opposite of traditional leftists.
They want slaves.
Yes, I hired a lawyer for consultation.
Since I was very poor at the time, I could get the cost for it reimbursed from the state, after laying bare my finances in front of a judge.
As for the seriousness, the legal firm moving against me had opened a case before a court in Munich (500km from where I lived) and I had to plead my case in writing to the court.
Next step after a lot of legalese back and forth would have been a summons before the court in person, which didn’t happen. The letters just stopped.
In the end, I paid 60€ for fees and postage. They had wanted me to pay 2000€ to settle and my lawyer told me if it goes before a judge, worst probable outcome would have been 600€ in court and lawyer fees.