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Megillah Gorilla posted:Speaking of - first of the new year from Aussie Dash Cams Merging slow is one thing, merging slow then pulling into the faster lanes is quite another. Also what's going on at 0:50 and 9:50? I can't figure out what those two drivers where doing wrong.
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Serephina posted:Merging slow is one thing, merging slow then pulling into the faster lanes is quite another. Also what's going on at 0:50 and 9:50? I can't figure out what those two drivers where doing wrong. They were probably talking on their phones
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Piracy has been good forever and had never needed the tiniest moral justification
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Soul Dentist posted:Piracy has been good forever and had never needed the tiniest moral justification "new U.S. Navy budget report reached some startling conclusions,"
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:"new U.S. Navy budget report reached some startling conclusions," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:"new U.S. Navy budget report reached some startling conclusions," "... that the pirates have been targeting colonizing forces due to the mere fact that oppressed colonized peoples tend not to have merchant ships of their own" 
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I used to take a hard line about not pirating stuff. Folks make a living off it, right? But yeah, with the way studios behave these days it's not even piracy, it's privateering.
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Hyperlynx posted:I used to take a hard line about not pirating stuff. Folks make a living off it, right? Do people now give out Letters of Marque and Reprisal authorizing this?
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Do people now give out Letters of Marque and Reprisal authorizing this? You joke, but there have been a few studios over the years who, for various reasons, have literally said "Just pirate our game".
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You joke, but there have been a few studios over the years who, for various reasons, have literally said "Just pirate our game". Really? Did they just want to try for market share ahead of rivals regardless of cost?
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Got screwed and don't want the person screwing them to get paid
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Really? Did they just want to try for market share ahead of rivals regardless of cost? It's generally been an understanding that a pirate was never going to pay if they were denied pirating, but might turn out to be a customer in the future or might market them to others, thus at worst no loss, at best a win. i.e. not being greedy idiot morons.
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I know it happened with Hotline Miami 2 being banned in Australia. They said "just pirate it". I was talking about film and tv, though. I still don't pirate games, unless the particular studio have been lovely.
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Hyperlynx posted:I used to take a hard line about not pirating stuff. Folks make a living off it, right? One of the things that really came to light with the strikes last year was how little the people who actually make stuff get paid for it on residuals over time. Like it's one thing to pirate an indie video game or something where most of the money is going directly to the studio and it's workers (minus the cut from steam or whatever), it's another if you're talking about trying to watch episodes of Deep Space 9 or some other old show - none of the people that actually did the labor to make that are getting paid, it's all going to the studio as gravy.
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Hyperlynx posted:I used to take a hard line about not pirating stuff. Folks make a living off it, right? With my trusty VPN and sharp-as-a-knife seedbox!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They were probably talking on their phones Yeah they actually enforce the no mobiles while driving rule down undah, rather than treat it like a gentile suggestion like in the states. Objectively good, but I also don't really care if somebody checks a text at a red light or something. Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1744021234180931706?t=OG9XbJerit_ze93rX2WWqg&s=19 Like to imagine them having to bleep out swearing in this one. Hmmmmmmm, Takes No Damage has a new favorite as of 05:16 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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With studios removing content and writing it off for taxes, the media becomes completely inaccessible by legals means. Especially if it was never released on physical medium. Piracy has saved a significant amount of art from being lost forever. What we really need is a system where like how if a trademark isn't defended, it goes away. So if you are no longer offering a product for distribution, then you can no longer claim copyright on it. If you remove a product for a tax write-off, then it becomes public domain. This will never happen, but it needs to.
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Don't lower the bucket so he can stand up or anything.
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Swinger party gone wrong.
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Hyperlynx posted:I know it happened with Hotline Miami 2 being banned in Australia. They said "just pirate it". Also Weird Al when his biopic was released on Roku and wasn't available in Australia 
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i assume every tracker with a search bar is seized by the fbi and running a honeypot op, so i dont even bother trying to torrent anymore. but i appreciate the suggestion al
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KoRMaK posted:i assume every tracker with a search bar is seized by the fbi and running a honeypot op, so i dont even bother trying to torrent anymore. but i appreciate the suggestion al That’s why you log in to your neighbour’s wifi first.
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Just how effective are VPNs at protecting you, anyway? Makes me wonder just how reckless I was being 15 years ago when I was just throwing caution to the wind.
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My VPN stops my ISP from emailing me about torrenting TV/movies and that's enough protection for me.
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Framboise posted:Just how effective are VPNs at protecting you, anyway? It makes it so your ISP can't figure out what you're doing, but the VPN provider still knows. The FBI could probably lean on them and get your info, but the bar for doing that is much higher and you would have to be suspected of big boy crimes for them to bother haveblue has a new favorite as of 06:55 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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putting on my big boy crime pants and downloading season 7 of mash
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Schaden is always on the yanks when this topic comes up, most (all?) civilised nations don't care about torrents, and people just grab what they want. Without like, ironically paying someone to help you perform petty theft.
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Serephina posted:Schaden is always on the yanks when this topic comes up, most (all?) civilised nations don't care about torrents, and people just grab what they want. Without like, ironically paying someone to help you perform petty theft. buddy, Warner Bros is an international enterprise. they're working on it, extrajudicially if ykwim
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The Lone Badger posted:That’s why you log in to your neighbour’s wifi first.  Serephina posted:Schaden is always on the yanks when this topic comes up, most (all?) civilised nations don't care about torrents, and people just grab what they want. Without like, ironically paying someone to help you perform petty theft. Wow sounds like you guys just don't care about maintaining value to stakeholders. If the companies employing artists can't turn a profit from their labor in perpetuity then the whole system falls apart and art will cease to be created 
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Art was a mistake. We should all just sit around the cave and look at the images cast on the walls.
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Hippocrass posted:Art was a mistake. We should all just sit around the cave and look at the images cast on the walls. Shadow art!
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Serephina posted:Schaden is always on the yanks when this topic comes up, most (all?) civilised nations don't care about torrents, and people just grab what they want. Without like, ironically paying someone to help you perform petty theft. Ehh it was in the news a couple of years ago in Finland, people got contacted by lawyers and told to pay hundreds of euros for torrenting. Not sure where it went but I got a VPN then. I got mullvad now, iirc their offices got busted by the cops but since they didn't actually log anything, like they promised, it was a bust. heh.
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Serephina posted:Schaden is always on the yanks when this topic comes up, most (all?) civilised nations don't care about torrents, and people just grab what they want. Without like, ironically paying someone to help you perform petty theft. Yeah, I've been tempted to buy a VPN subscription because of all the online paranoia on occasion, but then I remember it's always only the Americans who have these issues  Also lol, like I'm gonna trust a company to actually protect my identity should I ever get into trouble.
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My art requires billions in shareholder revenue to be created. Some say art, some say con
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Eh, my old (Australian) ISP did indeed pass on a "hey we caught you torrenting!" email. These days I'm with a different ISP, and use ProtonVPN.
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