He still has more say than average joe. Average joe pays an affordable but budget of a premium. He’s probably paying for top-tier level stuff, giving how much he’s making. He has more saying power than average joe. Average joe is the one getting the hot-potato of agents, getting ignored, getting mislead .etc

What makes you think a rich person is getting the same?

Oh please. Someone like him raking in the money, money can guarantee better service than average joe’s pull. Let’s not kid ourselves here. I’m actually astounded to know how much there is a divide here in the comments, where people are actually defending the rich one here.

And here I thought piracy was for the people that couldn’t afford these luxuries on a daily basis. Piracy being for people that simply, by choice, don’t want to bother with the legal alternative because of the questionable practices in play. Piracy being for people that just simply are locked out and have had their consumer rights stomped on all the way.

Why are we drawing the lines of exception here between a dude that pulls a million a year. That’s like the antithesis of the concept of piracy. He’s earning $83,000 a month, that’s a lot more than an average joe makes in an entire year’s worth of their salary.

You’re defending the 1% and that’s just wrong on so many angles when it comes to piracy.

Supreme Court is going to uphold it, watch. The Supreme Court isn’t really a viable source of decision making when it comes to these things.

"The major record labels, including Sony and Universal, want the Supreme Court to take a closer look at the “profit motive”. They asked the Court to consider whether an ISP must profit directly from the infringement itself, or if profiting from the overall operation in which the infringement occurs is enough. "

This is really just straight up bullying. Because, Sony and Universal for years have targeted pirates who they know are pirating and knew of the sources. They know the difference, it’s just they want more people to do their dirty work for them.

To support this argument, the music companies cited the dance hall cases, in which courts have held that the owners of venues can be held liable for copyright infringement committed by performers they hire.

The petition further cited the Supreme Court’s holding in Herbert v. Shanley Co. that a hotel could be held liable for the infringing performance of an orchestra it employed. The Court concluded that the hotel profited from the performance, even though visitors only paid for their meal, not the music.

Fucking dumb logic.

"“That would imperil the livelihoods, safety, and social connections of a massive universe of downstream users who rely on internet connections to run businesses, pay bills, apply to jobs, read the news, connect with friends and family, petition their representatives, and attend school.” "

True. But “muh muneh” are all that these studios care about.

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Cell phones, when they had personality. The 2000s was such a good time for them, you had so many designs. Slide out keyboard, panels that can slide, sleek designs, some had actual buttons .etc

But we’re now relegated to just a varying series of rectangles and squares. Yay…

I’ve only registered to it when I feel I need to interact a little more than few on here. I’d last long enough until I’m shadowbanned or banned outright because of a report from an overly-sensitive redditard.

I keep registering just out of spite though because if Reddit cared about alts or shit, they’d re-tool their registration by now. But, Reddit never learns anything so why not keep abusing it.

It’s only been getting longer between times though before I consider re-registering again. Just playing the whole ban evading whack-a-mole with them. But I do make my feelings known time to time about Spez because that shithead can still go fuck himself and that stupid grin of his.

"Seahawks CB Tariq Woolen was using MethStreams to watch today’s NFL games. He makes over $1 million a year,”

I hate to sound like that guy but, I’m on the side of those who can’t afford the luxury of streaming, playing games as they’re released and vice versa.

He can afford it.

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Hey American entertainment corps, fuck off from european stuff.

Retail stores.

Fuck your shopping ‘experiences’. People want to buy shit and get out. I saw at Wal-Mart recently these tables for ‘Customer Appreciation Day’. Fuck that shit.

Will it last?

That’s always been my concern. I’ve seen a lot of great alternatives come up over the years, some last a few years, but some also have lasted a couple months. I think the Fediverse as a concept and as an idea will last a lot longer than anything that branches off from it. So even if Lemmy dies or KBin goes or something else. There will always be a Fediverse and something will come off from it that will continue.

Said Dumbfucks: “WHUUUT!?! DUWNVUTE DUWNVUTE!”

Again, lazy corps need to do their own work.

This is what it’s sounding like right now;

Entertainment Corp: “Hey uh, Cloudflare…we need you to stop piracy”

Cloudflare: “We specialize in preventing DDoS attacks and -”

Entertainment Corp: “Think of our profit. We’re losing millions here.”

No.

I’ve pointed this out on another account on this very community through KBin Social.

And I was talking about how lazy and entitled pirates across all ages have become overtime. That we were losing more and more sources that had withstood a long standing of time. And one moment everyone is going “RAH RAH! HYDRA! CUT ONE DOWN AND MORE COME UP!” but when we lose some of which that have yet to return or take it’s place, the attitude grows weak. Almost desperate.

And it’s due in part how most of the pirates just take and take, but never give back. On r/piracy and sometimes on here, people are making posts wondering where they can get free stuff and how they can get free stuff. They don’t care about the technicalities, they don’t care about the cause of piracy, they don’t care at all. It’s always “give me free shit, thanks, bye”. There are few pirates out there doing the work and it’s just so that these lazy and entitled pirates can just take and take.

But when we lose sources, they scatter away like cockroaches and all that they can think about is asking where it is that they can get free shit. It’s almost like consumerism but for free shit, it’s annoyingly disturbing. It’s not about wanting the new product, it’s about wanting the source to mooch off from.

I sadly predict in time that the whole hydra ideology will just simply become the way the Pirate Bay has become, just a symbol, but will it mean anything? It’ll be so if this whole trend continues and all generations are just as guilty to doing it.

When we die, we’re recycled. There’s no Heaven, Hell, Rainbow Bridge, Valhalla .etc Because those are man-made constructs to give people a sense of belonging based on what you did in life. Someone talked to me about the Egg Theory and while I have a bit of skepticism towards it, I do understand a plausibility about it.

And if anything from the Egg Theory is true, then cool, I’d love nothing more than to be recycled and born into a life from the past to live it out again.

Projecting, to me anyways, is when someone is forcing a narrative for the sake of an argument. It’s like an advanced stage of making strawmen. But now it’s all forced so they’re just forcing it on you.