How these companies don’t realize these incompetent decisions push formerly paying customers into piracy is actually beyond me.

Do every c-level employee in these companies have brain damage?

Remember kids, if buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft.

Then apple shouldn’t be an anti-consumer piece of shit

They could fucking start by going bankrupt so open source alternatives that actually give a shit about privacy can take over. Revolt chat is objectively superior to discord

At some point we are going to have to burn down blackrock and amazon and every other piece of shit corporat fuck business that buys up all the fucking homes.

“WhY IS TheRE A HoUsInG CrISis!?”

ffs, hope bezos gets an untreatable form of fucking cancer.

So this guy is going to get skin grafts for immolating himself, grafts which could’ve gone to someone who did not light themselves on fire.

Awesome. Super cool.

Facebook should be seized by the government and the entire c-suite placed in gitmo and tortured to death.

Between me and my room mate we’ve downloaded approximately 1202tb this month and uploaded about 105tb.

AFAIK unlimited = unlimited. If there’s a limit we’ve not hit it yet.

There are some amazingly uneducated people in this comment section. I’m not going to bother correcting all of them, I’ll just leave links here so people can teach themselves how the god damn internet works.

Jfc.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/osi-model-networking-layers-explained-in-plain-english/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dives-how-the-internet-works/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPvYjXCsTg8

So, here’s a reality check for anyone who is apparently naive as fuck, what you or anyone else, including the president, thinks about the situation over there literally does not matter. Your opinions are worth less than shit and will only incite people against you so the best thing to do would be to discuss behind closed doors to try and stop the hostilities, taking a public stance on something where you ABSOLUTELY have no business being involved in, is how you get terrorist cells activated in your fucking country.

Netanyahu and Hamas deserve each other, the civilians in either country don’t want this, and worthless trash crying about it from countries completely uninvolved in the conflict make you look incredibly fucking stupid.

“If we all sign this petition/tweet this complaint hamas will stop raping and dismembering isrealis and the isdf will stop their genocide” Easily the stupidest fucking takes I’ve ever seen.

If biden seriously didn’t want trump to win, he’d fucking retire.

Have you read up on anything about Netenyahu? He is king asshole over there right now. Something like 80% of the population hates their current government and, rightly, actively blames them for the entire current situation.

I never said they could or couldn’t do anything. I specifically noted that people were giving up personal control in favour of pretend protection from things they themselves click on or search for then get mad about.

This was never a conversation about what reddit was doing and was always a conversation about the overall ineptitude and immaturity of society these days

I can understand where you’re coming from but it’s not like the commenter lied. Both musk and trump have court cases involving sexual assault in various countries and our adversaries are getting one over on us because of the incompetence of every politician, not just left or right.

Perhaps I am seeing it in a different light but it sure seemed to me like billionaire and politician bashing as opposed to ‘orange man bashing’.

I said fairly based. The commenters preoccupation with the fascism connection was odd but the rest was pretty much on point for presenting a theory as to why the torrent had been removed and re-added. The commenter added additional commentary to present a parallel for what the torrent uploader was doing in order to obtain more public interest.

In reference to your last line, you realize that the vast majority of the political sector is financially vested in ‘taking action’ against piracy, right? And by financially vested I obviously mean bribed by corps like MGM or UMG et al.

So, I don’t think you’re wrong but I think there was another way to do this.

A live example is the Deadpool game on steam. The original game is no longer available and cannot be purchased, bought, rented, or anything. However, if you bought it, you still have access to downloading it.

The reason? The new deadpool IP shredded the contracts with the original game developers primarily because the voice actors weren’t the ones everyone is now accustomed to (mostly ryan reynolds).

Steam managed to allow the content owners to be able to download and install the game without any problems while also complying with the new terms surrounding the deadpool ip.

This is primarily sony’s fault, in my opinion, because they chose not to go to bat for their customer base and opted to fuck over their own customers. If they do not refund everyone for all the content then anything sony has ever made should be pirated by everyone from now on because it’s clear that ownership no longer exists and if I can’t own anything, then I also can’t steal anything because clearly no one ‘owns’ it if even the people that paid for it cannot use it.

Wow, I’m shocked.

Who would’ve thought that the country second only to Canada in international money laundering and corporate fraud was hiding billions from the IRS.

Who could’ve possibly seen this coming.

Where I do appreciate your attempt at discussion, you clearly missed the point.

If you do any research at all into what was said you’d realize that this was actually a fairly based response.

https://www.cyberdyne.com/us/