• Art35ian@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    a) discussions aren’t a crime.

    b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters?

    c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.

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      10 months ago

      b and c) Go after the ISPs who don’t disconnect the pirating users and sue them instead. Go after the deep pockets.

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    10 months ago

    Or, perhaps it would be more cost effective to spend your money developing a way to access content that isn’t user-hostile. Then, suddenly, piracy wouldn’t be on the rise.

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    10 months ago

    There’s like 2 decent movies released per year. I think people can do without.

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    10 months ago

    Strange, my reddit account seems to have had all its posts and comments deleted and my IP leads back to Proton. Oopsy daisy. Get fucked clowns.

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      10 months ago

      Maybe, but at least Reddit is big enough it can say “no”. You have no rights B over whether it dies, but it can. A smaller device may not be able to afford to.

      What would happen on Lemmy? I seriously doubt anyone hosting Lemmy could afford a legal battle with something that big.

      A better argument is “shut the hell up”. You’re playing with fire by discussing something a place deems illegal, on a service under the legal jurisdiction deeming it illegal. You really can’t assume any right to privacy online. Use your VPN first, and discuss it in a jurisdiction where it is ok. Countries are better suited to “just say no”

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        10 months ago

        What would happen on Lemmy?

        You switch to a different instance that isn’t snitching on you, right? There’s already so many instances, big and small, that I don’t think it would be feasible for the movie people to go after all of them.

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    This must be the reason every piracy community I know has strict rules about not requesting specific titles. Even if they had the IPs, I’m not sure what they could prosecute, especially considering the number of users who use a VPN.