you wouldn't encrypt your rule
you wouldn't encrypt your rule
you wouldn't encrypt your rule
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No and I definitely wouldn't use it to access content that's restricted in my area
The most hilarious thing about that anti piracy campaign is that they stole (pirated) the song.
the font too
Omg! Yeah! I forgot about that bit! I often wonder if it's a snide nod, purposefully added or just a representation of the obvious hypocrisy that always existed in that message.
I am gay, I do crime :3 đđ
Piracy is not crime if corpos stealing personal data is legal.
It's still a crime, because corpos and their lap dogs in the government decide what's a crime. It's not unethical, however, which is the real metric you should be using to determine what you should and shouldn't do.
Digital piracy (downloading) shouldn't even be a crime to begin with. The idea that it's the same as theft is fundamentally flawed.
Theft requires the original owner to be deprived of their property. Creating a copy of digital media does not deprive them of their media.
The counterargument to that is digital piracy deprives them of revenue, which itself is a flawed argument. Revenue is money, and they never owned the would-be consumer's money in the first place.
In addition to that, there's no guarantee that someone who pirated their media would have even been willing to pay for it if piracy wasn't an available option.
Interesting idea, but in most domestic and international contexts, digital assets and capital are considered under the law as protected one way or another. Generally most countries don't want to have to rewrite entire legal systems for the new age, and have used existing laws and presidents to apply to digital counterpoints.
Hence, businesses can get protections for intellectual property, licenses grant usage rights and protections, and also lets someone theoretically be prosecuted for piracy like theft, hacking like breaking and entering, harassment the same online and in person, or illicit goods and services all the same.
Far from perfect with all kinds of caveats, and desperately needing work globally, but to me, better than just letting things go free while laws are passed and rights granted or denied.
Exactly, and I can't even afford to buy everything I want. They were never going to get my money anyway. So it's not a lost sale for them at all, their argument for that is 100% BS.
You wouldn't encrypt a perfectly innocent message and then send it to a friend.
fuck you, i'll do whatever the hell i want
(note: mods, i'm not saying it to the op)
EU's Chat Control be like this
Or the UK Online Safety Act or the similar legislation of many Southern US States (Florida, Texas..)