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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how much money gets spent on all this vs how much it would cost to just not suck major ass. Neither approach is going to eliminate piracy, but at least trying to attract more flies with honey wouldn't send more people to the black sails purely out of spite lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

At this point I will never again respect IP, the phoniest of all property. Get bent propertarians!

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

Let’s talk after they start arresting studio execs for sending fraudulent DMCA takedowns.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Universal, Nordisk, and Warner Brothers are all part of this "Rights Alliance" group. Each of them have used, or plan to use, generative AI going forward - which, by design, is unable to abide by copyright since it is trained on whatever they can get their hands on.

This is yet more "one rule for them and one rule for everyone else" from leaches that are desperate to profit from the work of others and punish anyone who won't pay into their state-enforced protection racket.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hope Swedish government is not brain dead enough to harass its own citizens on behalf of corporate parasites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Lets call most of our population criminals and have them sit next to each other in jail sharing file sharing techniques.

But being realistic, it depends on how far into the future the political party would like to keep winning votes.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't hope too much. File sharing became illegal in Sweden after a push from corporations, and later, downloading as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Surprised VPNs aren't illegal there either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My question is if they are going to start putting pressure on mullvad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They already did. No more port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fair its still quite good, though I might move back to proton with their new move to a non-profit. They gave me a little more trust for them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I guess we got a lot of education to do on topix of OpSec!

Paying your opressors is for bootlickers IMHO

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hopefully the government realizes that the loss of profit from piracy is usually zero, because the people downloading usually won't even buy the game

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Governments rarely realize anything related to IP that the copyright mafia doesn't spoon-feed them, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've always thought that was a more exclusive US government thing

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh I wish it was. Eg. here in Finland sharing movies etc. among friends or downloading them off the internet used to be legal as long as you weren't doing it for profit or distributing stuff to a huge audience, but that changed in 2006 because the new EU Copyright Directive required it, and that directive was hugely influenced by the likes of WIPO.