• @Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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    Corporations when some dude steals a copy of a 30 year old movie: 😡

    Corporations when they steal billions from their workers salaries every year: 🤑

    • @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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      251 year ago

      Taking money for a 30-year-old movie is pretty much government-assisted stealing, if I’m honest. Copyright in the USA originally had a term of 14 years.

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        Here’s the thing: copyright term includes the life of the author plus a fixed period. So the works you and I nobodies produce will eventually become public domain after we die. HOWEVER, and this is just my underatanding of the laws and I’m definitely not a lawyer, not big name IPs because they are not registered under the human author, but a corporation that is both a person under the law and effectively immortal. So even if it’s two thousand years after George Lucas dies, Star Wars will still be copyrighted as long as Disney exists, and even if Disney dies, part of the process of corporate “death” is liquidation where they sell their IPs to the next asshole corporation.

        Am I wrong? Please correct me if I am.

        • Count Regal Inkwell
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          Afaik you are not correct. Copyrights for a corporation also have an expiration date.

          Except – The expiration date can be extended by just continuing to use the IP – Ever wondered why movies get remakes/reimaginings every 30 years or so? We meme about them being “Out of ideas”, but really it’s so they can hold down their copyright.

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            Except – The expiration date can be extended by just continuing to use the IP – Ever wondered why movies get remakes/reimaginings every 30 years or so? We meme about them being “Out of ideas”, but really it’s so they can hold down their copyright.

            No, that’s just wrong. At one point, early Marvel contracts had clauses that allowed the movie producer to keep the contract going if they continued to put out movies. When Marvel got big (post-Iron Man), they had been trying to claw back those contracts. That’s why Fox kept putting out an X-Man movie every few years, and Sony kept putting out Spiderman.

            But, that has nothing to do with copyrights, and all of the remakes are just shit that Hollywood does for memberberries.

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            Using an IP doesn’t extend the date at which it becomes public. Movies get remakes etc because they want to make more money. Some movie companies have deals around IP with the original IP owner that revert if they don’t use the IP, but that’s separate from when the IP goes public. Mickey Mouse for example will become public domain in 2024 unless disney successfully lobby for the length of copyright to be extended (again).

            https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/03/mickey-mouse-disney-copyright-expiry

            Winnie the Pooh recently became public domain for example, which is how we got the god awful 18+ movie “blood and honey”.

            Sony for example have exclusive movie rights to the Spider-Man IP in perpetuity as long as they release a movie every 5.75 years at most, otherwise it reverts back to Marvel. That’s why they keep rebooting it and releasing sequels no matter how garbage they are - it’s better for them to release a trash movie that bombs than it is to lose the most valuable superhero IP in the world.

            Now that Stan Lee is dead, however, there is a countdown set for when the Spider-Man IP becomes public domain, and no amount of movie or comic releases will delay that.

      • @acastcandream@beehaw.org
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        See, this is the stuff I was talking about in my other comment. Too many arguments in favor of piracy are these little one off, no context one-liners that sound snappy/true, but lack nuance.

        It’s not that you don’t have a point, but you need to actually tease this out a little more, and also addressed the fact that most people who are pirating are not doing it for that reason. There is always unwillingness by piracy advocates to acknowledge that some people do it just because they want free shit. It’s not a moral stance, it’s not a social movement, it’s not a financial necessity, they just don’t want to pay for it. 

        I definitely don’t ever pirate. I would never use transmission or the pirate bay to acquire what I want. But if I did, which, of course I don’t, I would admit it’s because of a combination of 1) convenience, 2) the ability to deploy where I want it, more specifically 3) so I can put it on my server to stream on my network, and 4) because of fears of the programming being taken down, such as streaming services.

        I would also be lying if I said I wouldn’t do it because I don’t want to spend money on it. That’s just me being honest.

        My point being that whatever your reasoning, I just don’t like when people throw out bullshit excuses or examples that only apply to .001% of people engaging in piracy.

        • There is always unwillingness by piracy advocates to acknowledge that some people do it just because they want free shit.

          Some people do it just because they want free shit. I don’t care. It’s still good.

          • @acastcandream@beehaw.org
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            I think you’re missing the thrust of my point. I am not passing judgment on whether or not it’s OK to want free stuff. I am saying making excuses to pretend you don’t undermines the pro-piracy position.

            • You were responding to:

              We also pay for their bailouts and subsidies. Piracy is ethical.

              There was nothing in this statement to suggest the motive behind piracy had anything to do whether or not it is ethical. There was nothing in this statement to indicate that the author was engaging in piracy for purely altruistic reasons.

              I don’t see how the author was “making excuses to pretend [they] don’t” “want free stuff.” And I don’t see how arguing that piracy is ethical is implicitly arguing that you only do it for altruistic reasons. I think bringing up the selfish motives behind piracy without prompting is an implicit admission that there is a connection between selfish motives and the ethics of piracy. And finally, I think parsimony is effective.

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                I was widening the scope of the conversation and discussing a frustration, not accusing them of anything. I can see why my intentions were unclear though, that’s on me.

        • @mayo@lemmy.today
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          I agree about snippy one liners but I’m also not invested in this topic enough to go deeply into it. Maybe not until someone engages. I just browse lemmy, I share thoughts. I’m just here to hang out. If I want to learn then I read a book. I try not to take this site or myself on this site too seriously. I also like how you responded in somewhat long form. I like that a lot, and I’m hoping one day I can join tildes.net and participate in longer conversations.

          That said, I don’t think it’s a bullshit response and I don’t think I need to elaborate on how subsidies work or how deregulation has siphoned money from the public and given it to private companies. For me, it doesn’t matter why an individual chooses to pirate or how they justify it. I see it as a form of protest and anyone participating in the protest for any reason is doing it for the right reason.

          I think it’s interesting that people jump to the defence of copyright, or question the morality of piracy on the grounds of what damage it might cause to creators and publishers. Tax laws - old (austerity taxes), new (lowered corporate taxes), and proposed (100% inheritance tax) are much more significant than any effect piracy will ever have. This is what we should be debating and arguing about, not with piracy. It’s peanuts.

          • @acastcandream@beehaw.org
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            If you go through my comment history, you’ll see that I repeatedly am in favor of most piracy arguments. I am just talking about bad defenses here. 

            I’m also not sure why you’re saying you don’t really care yet took the time to write all of that. 

            • @mayo@lemmy.today
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              Ok. I’m not trying to get into anything here with you. I’ve said what I wanted to say.

  • @empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1121 year ago

    Ayo I’m in the screenshot letsa fucking GOOOOOOOOOO-

    For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username) and has spent his time on !memes@lemmy.ml continuously spamming heavily transphobic, homophobic, and objectively sexist “memes”. Just about every one of his alts is now banned but I’m sure more will pop up.

    Now, why the fuck he cares so much about pirates at this point, I haven’t a clue…

        • m-p{3}
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          51 year ago

          I’ll keep an eye out, and I sort everything by new anyway.

      • Red
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        Yeah we banned them on reddthat 2 days ago. I’m glad to see I’m not an outlier. Initially we should a 7 day ban should suffice. But then that user decided to message the admin directly and insult them.

        Probably the fastest way to get your account banned.

        Edit: The message in question. 👀 (Attempted spoiler open if you dare)

        ! Screenshot_20230816-204901!<

        • LiveLM
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          you have all the qualities of a womanly woman

          real “breasted boobily” energy

        • m-p{3}
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          I believe the spoiler tag is the following on Lemmy

          ::: spoiler spoiler label
          sh*t to hide
          :::
          
          spoiler label

          sh*t to hide

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      241 year ago

      Maybe he just likes to argue with people. I have 1 such classmate. His “opinions” are always just opposite to who he’s talking with. But apparently outside of school he’s normal.

      • @acastcandream@beehaw.org
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        211 year ago

        It’s easy to be a contrarian when opinions are not something you actually hold, but simply hats to be swapped out or discarded as necessary.

        • @FastEddieB@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Kid’s probably on the debate team, they live to argue. Good luck figuring out their real opinions though, they might not even have any.

          • @acastcandream@beehaw.org
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            Sadly this is just how many people operate, though I imagine the emphasis on L-D debate and convincing judges certainly contributes to our culture of engaging that way.

      • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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        31 year ago

        I love arguing with people, I’ll even argue points I don’t necessarily believe, but that’s not the same as trolling. The difference is doing it in good faith

        Trolls aren’t trying to convince anyone or engage in debate, they’re in it to russle jimmies, own the libs, or whatever. There’s not really an intellectual aspect to it, it’s arguing on emotion

      • @empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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        Oh. Oh that makes so much more sense. His sad little idea of vengeance is to now attack anything piracy related and get dbzero ostracized from LW just because pirates have more morals than he does lol

      • @LetsGoBrandon9982@sh.itjust.works
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        Oh wow, he’s an even bigger loser than I remember on Reddit, or maybe I just didn’t trigger him at the time (maybe he would’ve reacted differently if I was trans or at least if it was clear to him).

      • @faintedheart@lemm.ee
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        Out of curiosity, just someone not supporting trans people or lgbtq are getting banned or they are taking asshole behaviour and spewing hate speech?

        Edit: good fucking world. I am not against lgbtq. I am supporting it. I am a bi curious guy. I am all in for their civil rights. I was asking a question about why that guy was banned. For asshole behaviour or just having a different opinion. I don’t believe just for telling someone doesn’t care about lgbtq is not a reason for ban.

        • @14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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          is “not supporting someone” your newspeak for being asshole? because i am pretty sure that any group of people doesn’t give a flying fuck about you or anyone else not “supporting them”, just let them be and they will be happy.

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            My experience is that when someone discovered they need certain civil rights but don’t have them, often staring down thr barrels of police service pistols, then yes, they give all the flying fucks in the universe about being supported.

            This is one of those reasons that Leopards Ate My Face is a known trope and community. Sadly, the ones who empathize already have their share of leopard teeth marked scars.

            Given I and many people I know are not going to survive genocide in the US, if ever it goes full post-Wannsee, I have little patience for anyone who does not stand at least against the transnational white power movement (aka the white Christian nationalist movement). That includes even conservatives who wish the GOP would less extreme like in the Nixon and Reagan years. That train was always going to inevitably lead to the political crisis in the US, today.

            • @14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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              you missed my point and you wrote three angry paragraphs about it, good for you! 🤣

              My experience is that

              my experience is that when someone tries to put inequality sign between being an asshole and “not supporting them”, he is trying to make an excuse for being an asshole.

              what do you even mean by “supporting them”? do you bring them food and your old clothes every sunday or something? how do you express on the internet that you “don’t support” someone/something?

              when i am indifferent to a topic, whatever that topic is, i don’t feel the need to go on the internet and express that indifference. when i talk about something, it is either because i am for or against it. so when you are being called for being an asshole, you weren’t just “not supporting them”, whoever them is in the context, you were probably an asshole and now you are trying to mask it.

              (to prevent further confusion - i am aware you are not the person i originally replied to, so any “you” in this text is just a figure of speech)

        • gabe [he/him]
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          If not supporting means you feel that we don’t deserve civil rights then yeah they should be banned

          • @LetsGoBrandon9982@sh.itjust.works
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            What I’m curious is, how did that asshole get accepted on lemmy.dbzer0 but was able to be weeded out on literature.cafe like shouldn’t it have been obvious to the dbzer0 reviewer what kind of person he was from the registration form? Of coarse I’m assuming he was honest on the forms, I guess technically anyone can lie on the form and then turn around and spit in your face once accepted.

        • @empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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          Well, there’s a pretty wide spectrum in “not supporting”. Can range between “cool bro, not my thing but you do you just leave me out of it”, which is a rational albeit reserved response… or you could be like Bungiefan, who spams memes calling transgender people pedophiles (multiple times).

        • spinnetrouble
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          Someone actively spewing hate speech in addition to repeated attempts to troll the communities it posts to

        • @EremesZorn@beehaw.org
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          The guy posts anti-LGBT memes everywhere. He’s one of these losers that likes to use “cuck” in his comments. I’d ban on that alone. Hell, I’d ban anyone for being a Trump supporter or a tankie. Then again, that’s why I’m not a mod, never was, and shouldn’t be.

      • @LetsGoBrandon9982@sh.itjust.works
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        That would explain why he’s such a snob about piracy on his Reddit subs. For context on Reddit this person (pretty sure they’re the same person) banned me from a sub he moderates (I believe it was r/3dshacks) and he tried to get me banned from r/EmulationOnAndroid and also weirdly enough r/teenagers he failed at getting me banned from them by the way because those subs aren’t anti-piracy bungie stans like he is, simply put they don’t care.

        But yeah he was a real loser, I think he got removed from most of the subs he moderated by Reddit though, and the participation in the protest has all but killed the remaining Sub. From Allmighty powermod to a pathetic whiny troll (though I guess he still was a whiny troll before, he just seemed more respectable from the outside).

          • @LetsGoBrandon9982@sh.itjust.works
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            It’s been happening to a lot of powermods on Reddit so probably. I should note that as far as I’m aware this guy is the only one who decided to harass lemmy for it.

        • LiveLM
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          21 year ago

          From r/3dshacks I could understand, but from r/EmulationOnAndroid??? they be pirating emulators on that sub, they do not care lmao

          • @LetsGoBrandon9982@sh.itjust.works
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            Keep in mind he isn’t even a mod there, he was trying to get me banned because he was under the delusion that they cared as much about Piracy as he did, they didn’t end up banning me, but he did argue with me for a while, even said that Citra Devs support his harassment, before quickly trying to retract it.

    • @db2@sopuli.xyz
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      91 year ago

      The troll doesn’t care, at all. It got banned clearly or it would be trolling here directly, it’s retaliation. Child psychology will tell you everything you’d need to know about that “user”.

      • @Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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        Maybe we shouldn’t feed that troll ?

        I think in that case a shadowban would be the best way to do it. Or an IP ban if that’s possible.

        In any case this is giving him even more reason to keep on harassing people for attention.

    • Admiral Patrick
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      These are the alts, counts, scores, and ban status my instance is aware of:

           name     |      domain      | banned | posts | comments | post_score | comment_score 
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       Bungiefan_ak | lemmy.world      | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | lemmy.dbzer0.com | t      |     0 |        2 |          0 |           -14
       Bungiefan_ak | startrek.website | t      |     0 |        0 |        -35 |            -4
       Bungiefan_ak | reddthat.com     | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | lemm.ee          | t      |     0 |        7 |          0 |          -119
       Bungiefan_ak | lemdro.id        | f      |     0 |        0 |          0 |           -22
       Bungiefan_ak | geddit.social    | f      |     0 |        0 |          0 |           -30
       Bungiefan_ak | sopuli.xyz       | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | lemmy.ca         | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | sh.itjust.works  | t      |     0 |        7 |          0 |          -287
      
    • @14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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      that guy is the most succesfull troll in history. he single-handedly created havoc that big that russian trollfarm wouldn’t have to be ashamed for and you continue to give him audience. just ban him and move on.

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        Hexbear is one of the oldest lemmy instances, but only recently started federating.

        Are you suggesting that for the last 3+ years, someone was running a troll farm where the trolls could only talk to each other?

          • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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            Oh, sorry then, I must have misunderstood.

            Since federation, a lot of libs who’ve never encountered a leftist opinion have been calling us russian or chinese bots for not supporting the latest imperialist adventures.

            • @14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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              don’t take me wrong, i am pretty sure i am not in the same boat with comrade who thinks that “not supporting the latest imperialist adventures” is some clever newspeak, but your comment was first time i have heard about “hexbear” - whatever that is.

    • @Risk@feddit.uk
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      For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username)

      I mean, this is one of the benefits of the lemmyverse - using the same username across different instances. It’s not subversive.

      That’s not to lend a defence of this guy - just didn’t want having Lemmy alts presented as a bad thing.

    • That Dutch guy
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      How do you people find these alts. I scroll by, like or don’t, but I have no idea if they are related.

      Do you guys have a 7th sense or something?

      • m-p{3}
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        He’s using the same username on different instances, not the sharpest tool in the shed.

    • style99
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      I reported that mother fucker. Scum like him are easy to spot and clean up.

    • @HellAwaits@lemm.ee
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      And yet you just yeeted all this attention to the troll, so congrats. You got played.

      letsa fucking GOOOOOOOOOO-

  • Flower of Anarchy
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    What a fucking loser crying about intellectual property. Love live piracy and anarchy. Be gay do crime! 🏴 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ yo ho ho 🦜 nikopirate custom emoji

  • GayTuckerCarlson [none/use name]
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    Does anybody have the greentext that goes something like

    Pirate game

    Company loses $60 because it’s theft

    Company regains $60 after deleting game from hard drive

    Pirate one million copies, company bankrupt from massive theft

    Buy insolvent company for cheap

    Delete all game copies, company profitable again

  • @S13Ni
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    I buy most of my content, steam mostly for games, have spotify, buy music from bandcamp for DJ sets, at least my favorites, have family netflix, HBO, disney +, although I don’t use those as much since they are mostly full of crap. Sometimes I even buy/rent a movie if it is not available in those and I can’t find any torrent, or just out of convenience. I produce music and buy all my audio software (ableton and fuckton of plugins) because I don’t want to deal with the hassle of using pirated versions. I buy ebooks every now and then too, although with that I also admittely pirate some, especially when the author is dead, in which case I really don’t feel any guilt for pirating it. I also use patreon often and support creators that way.

    I still think piracy needs to be an option, so streaming services can’t have their way and we are just forced to use their enshittified platforms. I avoid it, because I understand not everything can be open source, and nothing get’s done without revenue. I don’t pirate from small authors/creators.

    All the while musicians get basically fucking nothing from huge streaming services profiting from their labor. Series get cancelled left and right despite good reception because they were not profitable enough, although still profitable, because netflix is only interested making next big hit. Games are filled with microtransactions and kernel level tracking (anti cheat), forced online features in single player game and sometimes games one bought are just made unavailable, like with old mobile games (case in point, dead space mobile). Professional software is often moved to predatory subscription models and paywalled updates to the software, like Avid, Waves.

    And people still cirlejerk about piracy being the worst thing to intellectual property ever. Problem isn’t piracy, problem is small creators are payed so little from listens/views/whatever that the can barely get by, and have to make alternate source of income via patreon or some other stuff. Piracy won’t even make a dent in that.

    Luckily in every category some people/companies are pushing back but all of this is just case in point why we need piracy. When I get around releasing music/games, I don’t mind piracy at all, might even put my own tunes on pirate sites out of spite. Current intellectual property laws are fucking joke and only benefit the largest creators in their respective fields.

    • @Artaca@lemdro.id
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      Yup. Folks looking for stuff to be salty about. Those admins were protecting their hides and had every right to do so. Hosting carries risks. What could have been handled better was communicating this (a day or three beforehand + not on Discord lmao). The people acting like this is some sort of unforgivable problem are just being dorks. Don’t like it? Pop onto a new instance. It’s easy and is a perfect example as to why Lemmy is great.

      Edit: Worth mentioning that the piracy community is among the most active groups on the entire platform. As a viable alternative to reddit, I don’t think piracy being the face of Lemmy is a great look. Newcomers may start on LW and never need or want this community. Those who want it WILL find it.

      • @LakesLem@lemm.ee
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        Huh, wow, someone talking sense on the subject and not getting downvoted to oblivion.

        Some instances will be more averse to legal risk than others. Some will also lean more towards “censorship” (showing bigots the door) whilst others will be “free speech encouraged” (full of them). That’s the beauty of the fediverse. Pick your poison. Why go all pitchforks and DDOS attacks etc against an instance that doesn’t share your values when it’s piss easy to just switch to one that does?

        (I’m somewhere down the middle on the piracy subject. I believe in supporting small individual developers trying to feed their kids. But Adobe and the like can go fuck themselves)

  • @GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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    Lmao this is the guy that first lead to them banning the communities right?

    Love that lemmy.world seems to be making their moderation strategy based off of a troll with at least 4 alts…

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        He didn’t fool anyone, he just seems to have caught them acting like hypocrites and made them either put up or shut up. If you want to enforce rules, you need to actually enforce the rules. If discussions of illegal things is against the rules that you made, then clearly an entire community built around illegal piracy is against the rules. Him pointing that out is a big-brain move that you would hope the admins would have gone “ah you got us. We’ll change that rule to not be so restrictive”, but instead they went “well shit, we’ll remove it instead of changing our stupid rules”.

  • NormalC
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    Piracy of software is always moral in the face of proprietary software.

    They have stolen so much from us that we have all right to revolt.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      Intellectual property is denial of media rights to the public.

      Theft is justified in the face of capitalism.

      Those who live in precarity, poverty, homlessness or hunger are justified to do whatever violence is required to survive.

  • @YeetPics@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Bro I’m still jittery from hating on spez… all I had to see were some of the comments lemmy.world mods and admin made and it was fucking easy as piss to move instances.

    Not getting rid of my old account tho, they can continue to host everything I posted.

    • @viking@infosec.pub
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      331 year ago

      It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Their servers are based in the EU and therefore a rather easy target for copyright lawsuits, and they have neither unlimited funds nor the manpower to fight them off (even if the allegations are completely unfounded, you need a lawyer to refute them, and lawyers charge actual money).

      Sometimes it’s easier to focus on your strengths than fighting the good fight on all fronts and go down swinging.

  • gabe [he/him]
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    281 year ago

    yall, this dude tired signing up to my instance a few nights ago. yall wanna see why many communities have registration approvals? see below. warning for nsfw language

    NSFW language

      • Admiral Patrick
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        21 year ago

        Unfortunately, the deny reason(s) aren’t sent to the applicant and aren’t visible to anyone except admins.

        • gabe [he/him]
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          41 year ago

          I wish they were visible to others or had an admin option to add it the modlog cause people write some funny shit in there 😭

    • @Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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      151 year ago

      Still laughing at the vast amount of people coming from reddit and expecting only chill people to be on lemmy. Like lemmy users are somehow immune to toxicity.

      It’s less toxic overall but we (or mostly the moderators) will have to fight them all the time.

      At least it will improve the moderation tools which is always a good thing.

      • gabe [he/him]
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        111 year ago

        When I realized it was that dude who tried signing up to my instance I lost my shit laughing, if he was screened prior it’s obvious he wouldn’t have gotten in. This is precisely what happens when you focus on growth over organically cultivating a healthy community.

          • gabe [he/him]
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            61 year ago

            If that is true in any way whatsoever, that is a completely moronic long term goal. Lemmy devs themselves have encouraged instances who do such a thing to defederate. I don’t see how realistically advertising or monetization would be done not only without immense privacy concerns that would likely affect the rest of the fediverse but without major protests and mass defederation. The backlash against it would be immense, not just on lemmy but across the fediverse itself.

      • @Aimhere@midwest.social
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        31 year ago

        Lemmy is like every social medium since the dawn of time: a cross-section of humanity… the good, the bad, and the ugly.

    • m-p{3}
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      31 year ago

      Registration approval should be on by default…

      • gabe [he/him]
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        31 year ago

        It came after I was arguing with weirdo antisemites in c/atheistmemes so I assume it was because of that but I have no idea and don’t really care to know that much

        • @LetsGoBrandon9982@sh.itjust.works
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          21 year ago

          At least he was stopped at the registration level, it likely wouldn’t have been pretty if he was allowed to run wild there like he did on other places.

        • Stoneykins [any]
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          1 year ago

          yeah he caused huge arguments in the biggest instance, the guy is talented.

          Too bad that “talent” is being a huge asshole and getting the biggest reactions possible, instead of something useful.