discussion Is there any chance of creating a rule for games with extreme content to have passwords?

[RichardLewd]

A friend of mine works for an internet provider and they can see everything the users see and download...
For example, there is a user, a well know member of society, that is married and constantly watch gay porn!!!

Is there any chance of creating a rule for games with extreme content to have passwords?
By the way there are some developers that already password protect their games, which make them safer to download!

 

[mazick101]

I mean, "your friend" could always use a VPN right? They are inexpensive these days. Its not up to the uploader to protect the privacy of others. Although on the other hand is wouldn't be hard to add a password so what ever..

 

[fllyn]

Most downloads here and elsewhere go over HTTPS. Unless your friends works for an ISP that somehow breaks TLS and man-in-the-middles the connection or takes the time to correlate exact transfer sizes with known files at a specific host, it is absurdly unlikely they know more about downloads than "user X downloaded Y amount of data from this shared file hoster".

But you know what they can see? That you frequent this forum. So if you care about that, better think about that.

 

[Loliholic]

I'm just a leecher here, but i can understand if devs or uploaders of...lets say not globally legal content make sure not every hoster can open them right away to keep their accounts from getting banned.

 

[R51093]

I'm just a leecher here, but i can understand if devs or uploaders of...lets say not globally legal content make sure not every hoster can open them right away to keep their accounts from getting banned.

This is the only reason I can think of to do such a thing, to protect the uploaders and/or file hosting sites from being able to verify what the content is and ban the said account.

 

[Redyscom]

This needs a lot of analysis, I can understand why some people would prefer to have the highest level of security and why others don't give a shit if someone knows what they do on the internet. I'm somewhere in the middle, I like to have a certain level of privacy, but I'm not paranoid who thinks that I'm being watched specifically, and encryption programs and VPNs exist and although they are relatively expensive, if you care about security then you are willing to pay for them.

At the same time, remembering how PlayStation workers were found to be taking sensitive information from users and selling it on the black market makes me worry about this.

In the end, everyone covers their own asses and if the developers of games with highly sensitive and not very legal content think it is necessary to take such measures, then let them do it, in the end it is their product and they are completely free to do whatever they want. And if they don't do it, well, that's also their right.

 

[kakarottooalgo]

What's questionable about a filed called "a summer in loliwood"?

 

[UStinky]

Scary thoughts tbh

 

[xatfx]

The site requires a password, and the M+ sections require LC coins...
I think that's enough.