I use those to train my AI though. It’s not piracy if there’s money.
“Sonarr has escaped containment 😱!!!”
It was openai or meta that claimed because they didn’t seed the torrent that it wasn’t really piracy.
So piracy only starts becoming bad when it takes the form of communism/socialism lol.
The theft for a major corperation? Thats just good ol reliable capitalism.
Non of the people pirating content have money to buy more stuff. These tens of billions they talk about don’t exist.
Non of the people pirating content have money to buy more stuff
How DARE you!
My piracy is morally; not financially driven
Mine is accessibility driven.
Oh, wanted to watch that series from last year to end? Too bad, it’s gone now.
My wife and I have a game we play sometimes. We pick a title, and then we have a sort of race: can we find a way to watch something the “right” way before we are able to torrent it?
Mine’s mostly financial, my moral objection is to streaming shows where, even if you have money, you can’t buy the show on DVD.
Though I wonder if streaming legally and ripping illegally would be the next viable option. Netflix’s 720p streams are largely unprotected.
If you’re using a semi colon, you need to make sure it’s a stand-alone sentence on both sides.
If you’re using standalone as an adjective, you need to make sure it’s hyphenated or a single word.
Thanks, fixed
You might be the only person in the country that knows how to use semi colons then. I thought it was just when you are already breaking apart a sentence in commas and want a list within one of those comma breaks.
If you mean like when you’re creating a list of items that already contain commas, such as New York, NY; Boston, MA; and Sacramento, CA, then that is also a valid use of semicolons.
My error was writing my sentence with a valid semicolon, then editing the sentence structure without replacing the semicolon with a comma before posting.
We standing on principal over here. I’ll continue supporting indie devs and small projects but mega corp has too much and won’t be getting anything from me.
I would be surprised if most US politicians are capable of understanding the concept of duplicating files on a computer
You are correct. It’s like expecting car salesmen to be able to understand how to do brain surgery.
Most politicians are failed lawyers. And if they are too incompetent or corrupt to be representing people or entities in court, they sure are hell shouldn’t be making calls about anything in society or in the political realm. And that obviously includes technology.
Remember when late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens described (with great confidence) that the Internet “is like a series of tubes”? Classic example of their wider incompetence right there.
that guy made ytmnd twice as entertaining back in the day
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“…it’s more like a series of tubes.”
You think they care about things like facts, or logic? No. This is, and always has been about control.
Even the business side of things know piracy doesn’t actually hurt business, it helps it. They’ve conducted studies on this since 2004. They found that the vast majority of pirates are actually the biggest spenders. They found more often than not a pirate will download a movie, or an album or a game, or whatever. Then within a month buy that same thing they just pirated.
Thats the reason you used to see these record labels try to stop piracy back in the days of kazaa and napster, and limewire. There used to be lawsuits where they’d sue some household for 20 million dollars. Knowing they don’t have it. Well what ended up happening is they ended up suing this elderly man who had no idea what limewire was. He didn’t know how to use a computer. And the only one who used the computer was the 8 year old boy, who now had to live with his grandpa, because both his parents were killed by a drunk driver. Now this record label was trying to put his grandfather 20 million in debt. For someone who had no idea who the black eyed peas. When they kept asking him about it, he asked why they kept asking him about soup if this was about music theft.
As the case went on, it was revealed that between his parents, and other family members, he had a cd collection, including the albums accused of stealing, worth over $5,000 worth of cds.
The whole thing turned the public against record labels, and painted them as the bad guys for trying to ruin peoples lives over music. To this day I haven’t heard of another time they tried that tactic.
And the republicans know this.
You have to remember one thing. The cruelty is the point. It doesn’t need to make sense. It just needs to punish their enemies. And at times even punish their own base. I saw a story last night where a guy who voted for trump was complaining that insulin used to be $6, and now it’s $80 under trumps new plan. And he said “I didn’t think it would happen to ME!”
And thats where we are right now. Just leaving the fuck around stage. Now entering the find out portion of our journey.
Mine is mostly convenience. I’m not going to try to figure out which of a dozen streaming sites have a show or movie that I want to watch, and manage all those subscriptions. I could probably figure out a way to afford them, but my time is more valuable.
Meta, X, and ChatGPT have all automated mass piracy of art, music, articles, and anything their genAI touches. Surely you mean to start there?
Its only illegal when peasants do it, not when billionaires do it. *
*it being anything.
That explains the demonic sex cult…
They want to lock down file sharing so no one else can use the data to build AI now that they have it
This. Totally this. Illicit recording of live broadcast radio performances of black jazz and blues artists in the 20’s and 30’s was how the major labels got their coffers large enough to start to change laws to protect them from others doing what they did to those original musicians.
The copyright enforcement laws came into place once they’d established themselves by breaking copyrights.
Utter cunts.
That’s probably why they want regulation
meaning, “Block whichever sites we say.”
Yet another FREEDOM bill from the Party of FREEDOM
FREEDUMB! 'Merica, fuck yeah!!
Yet another FREEDOM™ bill from the Party of FREEDOM™
FTFY
how do they plan to enforce this with foreign VPNs?
Don’t try to explain technology to them. It won’t work.
You see, it’s a series of tubes…
Are you sure it’s not a big truck?
they’ll try to pass it anyway. if republicants lose majority, it’ll be a horrific couple of months as they try to ram and cram every piece of shit legislation they can think of through before the new session starts.
Make those illegal too probably
Probably best we just let them think they got one over on us.
At a guess, tariffs. “Tariffs” is also the answer to all the other questions.
I think they could order Visa / Mastercard / etc. to ban payments to that entity, but 99% of the cases there are ways around it, just ask Putin, he always knows a way to sell petrol to EU / US
See the Autistici/Inventati debacle
Oh, I run a new company called FaceMeta, and this is all being stolen for “training” - therefore perfectly 100% legal according to capitalism
If you tell a joke that you heard from somebody else to a friend you’re breaking the Copyright of the creator of the joke.
If Copyright was strictly enforced it would constantly intrude in people’s lives and pretty much everybody would turn against it.
You don’t need to copyright it. Everything is copyrighted by default. You can decide to relax your copyright protection if you want, but the © symbol isn’t some magic spell. The sign kinda makes it look like it works the other way.
The sign isn’t meant to be taken literal. It’s hyperbole.
"Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups and other criminal networks. ". I never thought of AI companies as terrorists, but it’s a good label for the harm it’s caused
Um… Piracy funds terrorist groups? Handing out software for free earns money?
Well, technically it can, in that some piracy installs things that make them money, and that can go for their private gain or their pet projects. Kinda like how google offers you free products that make money for them.
the ironic part of this is in some cases it can. Pirate broadcasts and media boxes are becoming increasingly common to have subscription models for way cheaper than you would having the traditional streaming subs.
We are in a world where even piracy is starting to cost money in some cases fair cause convienence, but its still weird to think about. Everything always goes full circle.
That’s been the talk track since back on VHS. Apparently copying that tape from Block Buster went straight into buying drugs and weapons.
There was a very weird PSA video I think they put out there at the beginning of some of them.
Edit, yup: https://youtu.be/qcrrZ8X3UKM
For people who hate the government, they sure like using it to oppress everyone else.
Actually they (Republicans) love the government, specifically because it pays them money to pass corporate protectionism bills. Remember, when Republicans take over and lock out the Democrats, then:
~ They no longer need Republican votes, so officials no longer have to serve their constituents
~ The Executive no longer needs Congress, so their money train is in jeopardy.
~ The businesses no longer need lobbyists, so their money train is in jeopardy.(Considering the level of incompetence we’ve seen in the federal government lately, it’s possible that our congresscritters haven’t fully thought this through.)
We’re in the AI age now, which has shown us IP laws mean nothing when an entire major industry wants to violate them. This has always been true, as the studios and record labels pirated all the time, but it wasn’t as open and in the sunlight as it is with AI development. And Big AI is currently propping up the entire stock market.
It turns out IP laws never meant anything anyway. Copyrights and patents were justified as temporary monopolies to promote science and the useful arts, specifically to produce a robust public domain.
Except it does neither. Artists and scientists are rarely the copyright holders, and to get to own their own stuff, they need to be hot property (still making content) and have good lawyers. Also, the temporary monopolies have become permanent in practice. (much thanks to Walt Disney.) SCOTUS has not only refused to see the public as a stakeholder, but has taken things out of the public domain, so it has to be licensed again, in defiance of the Constitution of the United States.
So now IP law is only a rent-seeking racket. Especially now since you need subscriptions to use your appliances.
But as Sony has made clear for us in 2026, if purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t a copyright violation.
This bill is a technology solution and has technology countermeasures. They can order ISPs DNSes and VPNs to block piracy sites, but those sites change all the time, and can do so faster than it takes to update the registries. Furthermore, when services don’t follow through, they will get more usage (and will make more money) so there’s a perverse incentive to slow walk the updates, and not talk to whoever makes the lists.
We learned this a long time ago when the biggest selling point of ISPs was free porn and free movies.
Like encryption with backdoors for law enforcement, there’s no way to nerd harder to make it work.
It also depends on foreign service offerings cooperating with US law. Unless we build the Great Firewall of the US (which, I’m sure, is on the table), US offerings will be obligated to follow the law while foreign ones do not, which will run against the interests of local businesses.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes [sic] but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Yup, all “rules for thee, not for me” isn’t it?
I have a seedbox in a country that gives no fucks, so I’ll just use a DNS provider in a country that gives no fucks. You can make it harder, but you can’t make it impossible.
And it’s not like it’s so much harder to press a few extra buttons. Bonus: you’re safer online, so if anyone wants to go down the road, they’ll just be safer online.
They’re all a bunch of fucking idiots, the people making these bills.
Wish people would realize they are NOT idiots.
This erodes privacy and allows character assassinations on anyone who wants to be safe and/or private by using those VPN that do not comply. Is your mega ISP really going to stand up for your rights under this? Can you really get a new ISP at the “press of a few buttons”?
You aren’t the only one here not understanding how “this doesn’t directly affect me” bc you have the technical skills to avoid it. It does affect you, even if only by the chilling effect of it being more difficult to discuss online.
Well, they are idiots, for “as long as men die, liberty will never perish”. But that doesn’t mean they are harmless, we do need to push back against anything like this, not just allow it to happen because “I can press a few buttons”
So it’ll block ChatGPT and others?
Nah
Piracy is only okay for AI companies.
Laughs in I2P
I tested I2P a number of years ago and havent messed with it since. Been wanting to get back into setting it up for torrenting on my server. Will have to do some research and set it back up this weekend. Nows a better time than any I guess. Thanks for the reminder to start again.
I tried it again recently as a comparison to Tor and I much prefer the “everyone is a node” system + full TCP and UDP support, but the main downside is throughput/bandwidth.
It’s excellent if you’ve got time but I wish they would bump the default node share limits so thst the network runs faster.
Yeah, I do know its alot slower. I at least want to get it set up as a fallback if this bullshit the governments are doing actually happens.
“Site-blocking orders force any service provider, from residential broadband providers to global DNS resolvers, to disrupt traffic from targeted websites simply accused of copyright infringement.”
I know a few sites I can accuse of copyright infringement… (x, M$, FB, etc.)