Thats not how piracy in germany works. Torrenting for german content is quite uncommon. Normally the pages either point to sites hosting a streamabale version of the video content or point to a external file hoster (e.g. Rapidgator).
> Torrenting for german content is quite uncommon.
Obviously, because, as the chain of comments above your shows, torrent users are easily caught and get fined to hundreds of euros per downloaded movie. Then they stop using torrent and tell all their friends about the experience. This has been going on for more than a decade, maybe two. So by now, German culture has adapted and people don't use torrents.
The cease and desist fine (about 900 euros these days) is what the lawyer wants. Max return on investment for a single letter. You don’t have to react to this letter which will bring about the second letter with the generous offer to pay less, this repeats until around 340 Euro are reached.
Then you may get a court order that states what the lawyer accuses you of and this you have to react to. The court just states this and gives you 2 checkboxes. If you check the one saying “I reject the accusation completely” the lawyer needs to decide. He invested some 40 euros into the court order but going to court is a different ballgame and not his main business model so they have to weigh the chances.
The owner of the router that the file went through is responsible for access to the router. Since the owner has so far not said anything to his Defence there is a possibility that multiple people including family members had access to the router and the lawyer might, in court, be presented with a list of people and their addresses which satisfies the defendants task to erschütter the accusation for the court and leave the lawyer with the option to figure out whodunnit or rather who in the list is going to fold and pay.
This is really not his business model. That said they do go to court and people get sentenced to pay the fine.
Years ago I did exactly this by modifying my client to never seed/share, and also to fake my reported sharing stats so the private trackers wouldn’t boot me for failing to share.
Those were the days.
Now, I no longer fear the ISP or copyright holder chasing me (seems ISPS and laws moved on where I am) and don’t bother with modifications any more.
There are some services where you send a torrent file/magnet link and it’ll download the file for you, so you can download over HTTPS. I believe those particular services intentionally don’t reseed.
That's a very technical nitpick — GP's general point ('Obviously, because, as the chain of comments above your shows, torrent users are easily caught and get fined to hundreds of euros per downloaded movie.') stands.
You are downvoted, but from my experience, you are pretty correct. Most people I know will use a streaming site, then sharehosters (good old boerse comes to mind - Megaupload, Rapidshare and Uploaded were the big hosters I remember)
I even know of more people using Usenet then torrents! The amount of work to use torrents safely just isn't worth it for most people.
They are downvoted because it was an obvious and low-quality statement, as another comment outlined. Torrents publicly expose IPs and thus can be seen by copyright Nazis, but streaming/direct downloading has so far been safe.
True but it is possible for them to capture one of these sites and go through the logs to check for IPs. So it would be best to use these with a VPN also.
I'm not aware of this having happened for movie downloading but it has happened to data breach forums, the police in Holland have contacted some downloaders there after they took down a platform (raidforums): https://tweakers.net/nieuws/208638/politie-mailt-duizenden-n... (in Dutch, sorry)
So it's not unprecedented and certainly within the legal realm of possibility even though this is a different country.
On January 26th, Mirantis made Lens closed source.
I personally found it to be a useful tool, as it provided a good overview of existing Kubernetes clusters and easy access to them. Since I used OpenLens, I did not notice the license change and the removal of the source code until now.
Would love to hear about alternatives or best practices for cluster management below.
I’m sold, just bought a license - we just deployed our first multi cluster application and constantly switching contexts has started to drive me up the wall. Thanks!
Also interested in other tools. I don't mind working on the command line but Lens (and OpenLens later on) has been my tool of choice for keeping an eye and managing on our K8s stuff.
We have been working on an alternative project for several months, and will open its source on April 22nd. I truly believe this project will keep open source forever, it will be a project backed by CNCF Foundation, hope you can give a try after we open its source.
We have been working on an alternative project for several months, and will open its source on April 22nd. I truly believe this project will keep open source forever, it will be a project backed by CNCF Foundation, hope you can give a try after we open its source.
Versatiles provides a free and open to use Server under tiles.versatiles.org which is sponsored by People around the CCC.
Versatiles is also the First to offer a free to use vector card server, which is also amazing.
(For the German Readers: https://media.ccc.de/v/ds24-406-versatiles-freie-karten-fr-a...)
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