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When will Sony be sued for stealing their customer's legally purchased digital media
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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February 31st.
Too long. I hope on Feb 30
Oh that's very soon then! :D
Internet is a utility and should be treated as such.
Up next Sony sues Pacific Gas & Electric for profiting off of piracy. All those torrents were powered by Pacific Gas & Electric.
If you were a true american you'd be for privatization of all utilties
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Ain't nobody going to talk about that guy in the thumbnail eating a CD while wearing that hat? Stock photos are weird.
That’s how true hackers read the data without a cd-rom drive.
i thought he was munching it into shape so it would fit the floppy drive.
I miss r/WTFstockPhotos
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Stop copying my comments ;D
But actually: I don't want to mod it :/
That's okay, you can create subs and not mod them. Lemmy has a sort-of-mechanism to transfer modship already.
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Don't believe that you're always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.
Get a proper VPN, dammit!
In the end, you can't out-tech the law. You need rights.
Your so-called "rights" won't hold to the pressure of massive media capital alone. It will erode away.
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I just wish they would advertise the truth. VPN's are basically useless nowadays for everything except torrenting. Most websites once they detect a VPN address will just shut down. Go ahead and give Imgur a try with it turned on to see what I mean.
I use a VPN constantly and sadly a lot of sites add known VPN ip's to a ban list, I just reconnect my VPN and usually I get a good address but yea it sucks
Change your server to another location. ISP blocks VPN addresses that have been tagged.
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Media Corporations should not have a say in disconnecting users from the internet based on copyright infringement. The right to social participation is part of a basic human right - self-determination. Today, the majority of interactions with society involve communication via internet in one way or another, so that access to the internet is vital for enabling social participation.
Yeah, it's somehow comparable to a scenario where they had the power to decide you can't use uber/taxi, or postal services, because you used it to transport the HDD you're using for your private collection of copyright-protected media.
You're right, but looking at this analogy backwards tells us the problem isn't the ability for Uber/ISPs to ban users--this happens and isn't a problem with Uber-- it's that Uber, unlike ISPs, doesn't hold a monopoly on feasible means of transportation. We can't reasonably expect a business to act outside its own best interests, so it's insane to allow a business to exist in such a form. Short term, sure, regulate; but really, nationalize it.
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1 billion dollars over pirated music? Who pirates music amymore
Billion? What are they smoking???
Ikr? It's like they're counting every act of digital piracy ever to be their lost profits when that's obviously not the case.
It's not "like", that has been the argument with these piracy cases for ages. If I pirate 100 movies, it obviously means that if I couldn't have I would have gone to the shop to buy each and every one of them. It's even worse for anyone caught distributing the downloads, where a site host can be hit with this logic for every user download ever.
Apparently these days they are claiming that movie and TV piracy costs the US film industry $29-71 billion a year and the US GDP a cool $115 billion in total
Because, you know, we have all that money just floating in our pockets now thanks to piracy.
Video game piracy has led to more purchases from me, because I'll download a game to try on a whim that I wouldn't have purchased, find out that's it really good and buy it
It has been shown that pirates spend more on media than anyone else, so companies are effectively attacking their best customers because they are short sighted idiots
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Spoons made me fat!
I live in Brazil, there are many problems here and stuff. But at least no one gives a fuck about piracy, lol. Never needed a VPN for torrents, not gonna need anytime soon.
If I'm not mistaken, Brazilian law allows people to download and make digital copies of copyrighted material, so long as it's for personal use. I should probably look into that sometime
It's like that in many countries. The USA is just kind of shit in this regard.
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