• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Um, has there ever been a time Sony, the rootkit DRM company has not called for state intervention to enforce IP laws regarding Sony holdings? (All the while Sony pirates anyone else’s stuff.)

    This is like the news that Comcast objects to municipal areas opening up Comcast monopoly regions to new ISPs. Sony is almost as bas as Nintendo when it comes to their franchises.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Get a vpn provider. Set the location as the Netherlands. Set up a docker container with deluge and openvpn, and set it up to use your vpn provider.

    Voila. You only need run your torrent traffic through the vpn, and it’ll be on its own kill switch.

  • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it’s coming from corporate.

    You pirated a song?

    Well then, we’re going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.

    We’ll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we’d rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.

    Fucking LOL.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      It’s the same idea as “death penalty will scare people out from committing murder”

      The hope is the threat will stop new people from getting into that

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        Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it’s used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.

        Now, forget cutting off the internet, if you’d get the death penalty for getting caught pirating music, it would prove to be a very effective deterrent at stopping it. I guarantee, zero piracy after a few years.
        A lot smaller population left to buy the legal media too, though, but hey, no pesky pirates!

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          Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it’s used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.

          People pirate for not caring about the consequences

          Death penalty for its use cases though is getting off easy. That’s why you find people killing themselves either with murder-suicide or suicide in prison

          It’s like “what if we gave you no punishment at all”

      • MangoCats@feddit.it
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        My Google account that I had for 15+ years got banned from YouTube when I let my 9 year old play around making edited videos. He’d mash up clips from PBS Kids and other places. Apparently PBS didn’t like this and after a couple of vague warnings, my account is banned from YouTube for life, no actual chance of appeal. Of course I could just ditch it and open a new account under another name, but I’m stubborn, over seven years have passed and they’re still silent on the issue. I can watch YouTube, but not comment or post videos. Oh well.

    • fishos@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      For me it’s having a kind of Streisand Effect… Is there a mass torrent of just Sony songs I can grab? Cus fuck em, I want it just out of spite

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      2 days ago

      Forget marketing. They want every game to require logging in to their servers. You won’t even be able to buy or play their games.

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Spectrum had a policy like this at one point. They’d shut you off after a couple of instances of p2p that were reported. Afterwards, they directed you into a captive portal with some plausible deniability where you had to say “I don’t know what happened, but it won’t happen again”.

    Nowadays they just send you an email but don’t restrict access.

    Either way the Internet isn’t too safe, protect yourself with at least a VPN.

  • vane@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Cut us all off, so corporate can use internet, what they meant to use it for. Corporate Porn.

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      They could but let’s be honest, the AI companies have no capital to take. They’re just one big ponzi scheme waiting to collapse as soon as new investors stop coming in faster than they leave.

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    I’ve never forgiven Sony for decades deleting an account with paid for expensive games on it, they claimed inactivity for 6 months and UK law meant they had to.

    No other account (with purchases) I have has ever just got deleted on me and you better believe Sony are never getting a single penny from me again.

  • deathbird@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say “um, ackchually, the constitution doesn’t say anything about access to the internet”.

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      2 days ago

      As an aside that’s one of the major things I’ve never understood about how SCOTUS developes rulings, ie: how they use ‘original intent’ to figure out current issues.