This is an excellent answer, and the most realistic one I’ve seen so far.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes they will, and anyone confident in saying no doesn’t understand that laws will be changed if they need to. If VPN usage is significant enough of a factor in piracy or any other illegal activity laws will be changed to find providers responsible. They could mandate data be logged. There’s so many other more nefarious things that these VPNs could be sheltering more important that governments would like to be able to have information on that I just can’t see them shrugging their shoulders and ignoring it. That time will come.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go for it. I have a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam. Took and evening to spin up, and I can do it again. $6/mo.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Digital Ocean collects this data already. Some of these Vpn providers claim to collect nothing, sometimes not even payment information. If you’re doing something illegal on that Digital Ocean droplet and law enforcement tracks it down to that IP, Digital Ocean will comply with any lawful order for the data they have on you.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You could theoretically set up a logless VPN server where everything resides in RAM… Unless DO can export RAM at an exact moment in time or catch you in the act and take a snapshot of the RAM at that moment.
nabladabla@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
They know which IP address belongs to which customer at the time and anybody can download a torrent of some copyrighted content and see which IP addresses are down or uploading it at any given moment. No need to inspect RAM, no need for DO to monitor traffic. They (the copyright holders) will send a cease and desist through DO already, and could change to send a lawsuit instead.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
that server is directly tied to you. this won’t make a difference at all.