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.
I am always so impressed with the quality of FitGirl releases. They are tens of gigabytes smaller than the official releases of games, and they always work! It's amazing that they do all that work for free and still manage to do a better job than the million dollar game studios.
For a decade, Hollywood hasn’t aggressively fought piracy because it saw people would pay if they made them a good deal.
But as streaming has gotten worse and more expensive, consumers turned back to file sharing. Now the industry plans to get Congress to pass new legislation to stop them.
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.
Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....
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.
"È una fake news" dicevano. Ormai per qualsiasi verità scomoda, basta bollarla come #fake, chi la diffonde come complottista, e tutto si risolve.
Con il "piracy shield platform" Italiano, nella migliore delle ipotesi stanno facendo una figura di merda a livello globale, nella peggiore stanno mettendo su un sistema che va oltre il grande firewall cinese.
Questa è l'email che ho ricevuto oggi da #cloudflare: un mio sito (niente di importante per fortuna) è caduto nel ban del piracy shield perché questi signori hanno bloccato un IP di cloudflare che ovviamente è condiviso da migliaia di siti legittimi e perfettamente legali.
Io mi chiedo come si possa bloccare indiscriminatamente un indirizzo IP senza neanche fare un whois, ma soprattutto come si possa dare un potere così grande ad un ticket aperto da qualche centralinista di sky o dazn, che non sa neanche di cosa sta parlando.
Non commento il presidente di agcom che ieri piangeva in parlamento che Google non gli vuole bloccare gli IP a livello di dns perché sarebbe un precedente mondiale... gne gne gne.
More than 20 attempted hijackings since November have driven up prices for armed security guards and insurance coverage and raised the spectre of possible ransom payments, according to five industry representatives. Two Somali gang members told Reuters they were taking advantage of the distraction provided by Houthi strikes...
You know why people pirate stuff? Because even when you pay for it, you get hit with garbage like this. Was reading thru the EULA for the #MetalGear Master Collection bonus content on Steam, and this little paragraph jumped out at me.
Shit like this is the reason I built my own home server to keep backups of everything, including the installation files of all my Steam games. "No CD" or "No Steam" cracks are a thing, should worse come to worse.
Hey #Fediverse what #book do you recommend about history of software piracy? I would be interested in early days like c64/atari etc. as well more modern things like Dreamcast, PSX, Wii etc. I read several articles about it and watched videos from modern vintage gamer. But looking for something which talks more in depth about it.
Could you recommend me something? #games#piracy#giereczkowo
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 ?
I was going through old boxes and these sent me! We had a 'swapping' crew back in 4th grade. I used a xerox to make our own disk sleeve and the design has me in stitches!! #c64#floppydisk#evil#tools#piracy
Apparently all .tv domains registered through Sarek Oy (sarek.fi; or #Njalla, which uses them) are currently disabled by the .tv registry (turnon.tv / godaddy). No details are known and domain owners were not notified. This affects a few piracy sites, but also any other unrelated .tv domains, unfortunately including my jomo.tv domain. Piracy related .tv domains using a different registrar are not affected.
Somali pirates release hijacked Bangladeshi ship (www.bssnews.net)
Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....
Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies (www.reuters.com)
More than 20 attempted hijackings since November have driven up prices for armed security guards and insurance coverage and raised the spectre of possible ransom payments, according to five industry representatives. Two Somali gang members told Reuters they were taking advantage of the distraction provided by Houthi strikes...
Yuzu is gone. (yuzu-emu.org)
They settled for $2.4M and shut everything down....