In ukraine, piracy is technically illegal, but nobody cares and its not enforced. In 2022 after full scale invasion, ukraine banned most popular russian piracy websites as a “sources of propaganda”. Absolutely nothing has been done to foreign and especially local services.
in south africa piracy is also technically illegal
but I only heard of one case of someone being prosecuted
someone was filesharing a locally produced film and the director sued
that was over a decade ago, and there might have been other cases where people were prosecuted for digital piracy since
but uh… someone I know… has been rawdogging torrents for years, no VPN, no fancy router settings or whatever
zero complaints from Hollywood nor ISPs
I doubt the police service will bother doing anything about it anytime soon
“Okay, today we could either monitor the TCP traffic of some guy downloading terabytes of copyrighted adult films… or we could go stop a gang shootout and do some state brutality to innocent citizens on the way back…”
“…last one to the squad car has to use that old R4 with the fucked barrel!”
In ukraine, piracy is technically illegal, but nobody cares and its not enforced. In 2022 after full scale invasion, ukraine banned most popular russian piracy websites as a “sources of propaganda”. Absolutely nothing has been done to foreign and especially local services.
in south africa piracy is also technically illegal
but I only heard of one case of someone being prosecuted
someone was filesharing a locally produced film and the director sued
that was over a decade ago, and there might have been other cases where people were prosecuted for digital piracy since
but uh… someone I know… has been rawdogging torrents for years, no VPN, no fancy router settings or whatever
zero complaints from Hollywood nor ISPs
I doubt the police service will bother doing anything about it anytime soon