Thanks for the heads up Freddie
On 22 Nov 2016 04:25 PM ,Fred Fishbin <FredFishbin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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