It's the digital equivalent of those sovereign citizens who think the people in charge give a fuck what they think. It makes them feel better.
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E-Book growth makes sense as Americans are all going back to school from summer break and students are a very likely group to pirate.
Send them back a clip of you wanking to their email.
People get weird about VPNs. I think it's the way that they're marketed as security solution which is not really true these days.
Proton and Mullvad have the best privacy record, but I want to suggest a different tool. VPNs are really only useful for tunneling and adding an extra layer of anonymity, there's no total assurance they won't rat on you or get breached.
Real-Debrid is a way to torrent without risking ISP shutting down. Other debrid services exist, I just prefer real-debrid. The debrid service does the illegal part and you download over high speed. It's also more available since you can think of it like a very large scale seedbox. There's also implementation for most media center apps.
Just in case the mod responsible is here in the room with us, just wanted to say thank you.
That's it, pack it up. We're done here