One late night I opted to sign up to NewsDemon and abNZB to dabble into Usenet and done used my personal CC to authorize the payments, how screwed am I?

I obviously don’t intend to renew the services with this oversight, likely going to use prepaid visas from now on however, I have an itch that this will bite me in the ass.

  • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Unless someone anti-piracy is combing through your statements, why would anything come of it? I use my debit mastercard for nzbgeek and vipernews and have never had an issue.

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      3 days ago

      You really shouldn’t use your debit card for anything other than withdrawing money at an ATM. Credit cards are safer plus you get rewards.

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    4 days ago

    That’d be like paying for internet service being used to screw you.

    A usenet account is not in itself proof of anything.

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    Total non-issue. I’d be surprised if anyone can provide a single credible instance of this biting someone in the ass.

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    3 days ago

    Its fine, downloading isn’t an issue. Uploading/seeding is where the legal issues arise. Source: Facebook told me so

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    You are t screwed at all. That’s perfectly fine to pay for legal tools using legal forms of payment.