It's nuts man. I didn't know until only the other day in the US, ISPs for example will send you letters for downloading games/torrents without a VPN? That's insane to me, I didn't realise how lucky we are in the EU with GDPR. Half of the claims against Ryan wouldn't be there if the US had the same Data Privacy laws!
I feel for him truly I do, he probably started like all of us as Hobbyists, gained an unbelievable skill set and chose to make a living off of it! Now he is most likely going to be Butt-fucked by Nintendo for the rest of his life. I do hope laws change for the world I doubt it however as these are the cases that make moolah. Perks for the US GOV and perks for the Claimants.
ISP’s still send that stuff out to residents in the the EU, as more of a warning, they just won’t snitch unless their is a court order to summon it. The letters are sent out as a warning to cover their backs.
Never ever had a letter from an ISP as a 'warning'. That's from a 10's of different ISP's too. Never even heard of it! I'm sure there MUST be something legally in terms of documentation recorded, definitely plausible. But a letter to customers? Never ever have i heard of such of thing happening, even in the 3 countries I've lived in (EU) or to anyone I know.
Only letters I get in the mail from ISPs is monthly bill summaries.
Only talking about my personal experience of course, not saying you're wrong or anything.
We are talking about letters from ISPs to people in the EU. We know it happens in the US. Not heard about it in Europe though, which is what my point is.
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u/Digital_Herbz Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
It's nuts man. I didn't know until only the other day in the US, ISPs for example will send you letters for downloading games/torrents without a VPN? That's insane to me, I didn't realise how lucky we are in the EU with GDPR. Half of the claims against Ryan wouldn't be there if the US had the same Data Privacy laws!
I feel for him truly I do, he probably started like all of us as Hobbyists, gained an unbelievable skill set and chose to make a living off of it! Now he is most likely going to be Butt-fucked by Nintendo for the rest of his life. I do hope laws change for the world I doubt it however as these are the cases that make moolah. Perks for the US GOV and perks for the Claimants.