As far as Giganews and their VPN - I had a "chat" with one of their people
once. I'd gotten a notice from them, that while doing a torrent download
they'd gotten a notice on me. They had me sign their DCMA policy and that was
that. I asked the guy what would happen if they got another notice. He said
I'd have to sign the policy again. Wondering if this was the pattern I asked
how many times I could sign and if there were any repercussions. He wouldn't
give me an exact number, but it was a limited, small, number of times. Then my
account would be suspended.
I was rather surprised. I mean, what's the point of an anonymous VPN account
if they turn you off when you get tagged? Its a free service, so I guess its
worth every penny.
There are plenty of reviews for VPNs, I chose Hide.me. Reasonable price,
reasonable speed loss, lots of servers all over the world, and they keep no
logs. Someone comes to them with a complaint, they can't answer with any info.
One of the handy things of having a VPN with servers all over the place - I'm
not sure if they're still doing it, but the folks at DVDFab were giving a very
crippled version of their software if you downloaded from a US IP, pick an IP
from anywhere else and you still get the full product.
Enjoy, Freddie
abk <up@abk.ws> wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:46:36 -0600, Scotto wrote:<
>
>> On 21 Nov 2016 09:23 PM ,Adam Smith <none@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you!!!
>>
>> You are very welcome.....enjoy
>
>Not to butt in where I'm not wanted again, but you really don't want to
>post using Giganews, getting down to it, you're probably way over paying
>with Giganews anyway. But... they have a zero tolerance DMCA policy and
>they also log who uses their VPN for what. Best case scenario, you get
>your posting rights removed, worst case scenario, they give your details
>to whomever wants them.
>
>See here: http://www.giganews.com/legal/dmca.html
>and here: http://www.giganews.com/legal/dmca_onetimenotice.html
>
>If you still like the Giganews service for downloading, maybe at least
>check out their much cheaper sister company supernews.com, which comes
>much cheaper than Giganews itself, but still uses the same servers.
>Special deal for $9.99/month available here: http://www.supernews.com/
>super-special/
>
>I do not get anything from advertising them, in fact, I do not recommend
>them at all.
>
>As for uploading, I'd very much recommend an anonymous block account
>(posting doesn't usually count towards the traffic allowance), paid
>anonymously, with fake personal info and preferably with an active VPN
>connection.
>
>It may be overkill, but one never know when audiobook labels decide that
>Usenet is taking too much off their earnings.
>
>Just my, long winded, two cents.
>
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