@santiago
It was similar for me. My parents really didn't know anything about computers. For them computers were "black magic". When I was at school, I had pirated everything. The "problem" was, after I had figured out how to get everything possible, especially in the age of the Internet, that although I really had almost everything I could possibly have, I hardly used any of it. And it was never enough. But now it's the exact opposite for me: everything is legal. @root42@stefanhoeltgen
@osz@root42@stefanhoeltgen Same . It’s been a long time since I pirated software. Most of the tools I really care about are open source or free now and I have a company to buy the rest. Certainly once you run a business the risk of installing random stuff on your computer doesn’t make piracy so appealing.
Now I see kids have a pirate Steam that downloads games over torrent. I am too old for this shit but it makes me smile.
I cheer for #piracy because I don't think the modern IP or patent laws were made to protect me.
I use art that might belong to a big company - I get suspended. OpenAI and others steal everyone's IP, and there's nothing done to them, besides maybe a slap on the wrist or a small fine they don't care for.
Someone patent an algorithm I published? There's not much I can do. I can't sue them in the US, not logically and not money-wise.
Illustration for the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine, for an article about Stichting BREIN, translating to "BRAIN Foundation", a foundation funded by publishers to battle digital piracy.
I don't remember the exact scope of the article, but I guess the foundation threatened legal action to kids who copied CD-ROM games.
The Motion Picture Association has announced it is working with Congress to block known piracy sites in the US, reports @engadget
Speaking at CinemaCon, chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said the plans will establish and enforce new legislation to ensure ISPs block websites that share stolen content – something 60 countries worldwide already do.
what kind of info would you like to see in a "how to pirate everything" class? what sort of things did you find out about later than you think you should have? what do help others with the most when showing them what you know about piracy?
If purchase doesn't mean ownership, #piracy doesn't mean stealing.
Facing malicious actors (basically any big tech company) piracy, hacking/cracking and involuntary open-sourcing are acts of digital self-defense.
If you don't want people to act against you, don't act against them. A system that perpetuates malicious, exploitative behavior doesn't deserve your loyalty or trust. It is as simple as that.
@davemark I’ve seen sharing happen in real time- the person paying is there in the room. Can be holiday family visits, etc. I don’t think that much different that using a password as you are traveling.
I know in the cases I’ve witnessed, no one had any interest in retaining that log in info.
I would also understand a streaming service denying a password in two different locations at once. But what if a parent is on a business trip, while others are at home?
j'aimerai bien arrêter d'utiliser Netflix et tout mais je sais pas trop comment ça marche le piratage xD les torrents et tout je connais, mais j'aimerai que ça soit facile a utiliser genre je cherche un film, ça me le trouve et ça le télécharge pendant que je le regarde
et aussi ça en est où Hadopi et tout ? ça flic toujours autant ?
@minybolito perso pour éviter hadopi (qui peut être chiant surtout si tu regardes des shows populaires) je passe par un serveur qui télécharge pour moi mais j’avoue ça peut être chiant à setup. Sinon tu peux utiliser les torrents avec un vpn mais ça peut amener à diminuer ta vitesse de co (en fonction du vpn)
J’arrive pas à trouver des sites de streaming en français là tout de suite.
Ce que tu décris par contre, c’est littéralement le fonctionnement de stremio.com !
Thinking about the “You wouldn’t download a car” meme.
Due to reasons, WBD removed a bunch of LEGO DC superhero movies from Max. We’ve subscribed since launch, in part because our seven-year-old loves these movies.
If I lease a car, pay monthly for years, and then CarCo says, “We took rear defrost off of our service. You have to buy it separately,” you bet your ass I’d download a hack to turn rear defrost back on.
Taylor has lived her entire life as a boy. Hiding away as a serving boy at a local inn, but when a pirate comes stumbling into her life, he brings adventure and horror with him. Whether she wants it or not.
Except this analogy doesn't really work because in #piracy, the small authors still get a chance at some compensation via recognition of their works. And as that work gets more known and popular outside of the artist's intended and known avenues, the losses they got from each unauthorized copy will get covered eventually by those who just have learned about their work and have the ability to pay for it. As well as those who pirated the work from years before (probably when they're still a kid who can't really pay) and now finally purchases a copy legally (e.g. they're now an adult and have a working credit/debit card)
You can't say the same of #AIart / #AIscraping which sucks off from tens of hundred thousands of artists, a lot of whom are probably not well-known to begin with and will not get any people interested in their works via your big #LLMs and #AI. :seija_coffee:
What is piracy? This is a good definition from Courtney Love...
"Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. I'm talking about major label recording contracts."
What a rabbit hole, integrating Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Deluge and Jellyfin to completely automate the tracking, sorting, naming and searching of my entire media library.
@albi They don’t rename the original. They create a hard link to your destination directory and rename the link. 😁Hard links don’t take up any more space, it’s a double entry in the file allocation table, but the underlying bytes point to the same location on disk.
I used to use qbittorrent because it had so many search plugins. Now I want something I ran run on a headless server. I've found qbittorrent-nox, but I don't see anything about plugins in the documentation....
"It’s amazing, even ironic, how corporate types can compartmentalize their thought processes. One moment, they’re vehemently objecting to piracy, pointing fingers at unauthorized content acquisitions, be they software or movies. The very next, those same supposedly hyper-ethical corporations are wholeheartedly condoning AI like it’s the second coming. Is this some weird paradox? Or are big businesses only concerned with their own interests?" [We know the answer to that question!]
