The common advice to "hide your IP" misses the point. The threat is not your ISP sending you a warning letter. The threat is the .

State-sponsored actors have realized the utility of piracy. By flooding a market with high-quality, free, cracked versions of industrial design software (CAD, engineering tools), a hostile nation can:

: In the U.S. and many other regions, digital piracy can result in civil lawsuits for damages or criminal charges carrying up to five years of jail time and heavy fines.

While many users view piracy as a "victimless crime" against large corporations, the reality for the end-user is increasingly dangerous. Pirate sites are high-risk environments for:

Piracy Megathreat -

The common advice to "hide your IP" misses the point. The threat is not your ISP sending you a warning letter. The threat is the .

State-sponsored actors have realized the utility of piracy. By flooding a market with high-quality, free, cracked versions of industrial design software (CAD, engineering tools), a hostile nation can: piracy megathreat

: In the U.S. and many other regions, digital piracy can result in civil lawsuits for damages or criminal charges carrying up to five years of jail time and heavy fines. The common advice to "hide your IP" misses the point

While many users view piracy as a "victimless crime" against large corporations, the reality for the end-user is increasingly dangerous. Pirate sites are high-risk environments for: piracy megathreat