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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 6 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

This hasn't been true for a while. Unless you are constantly looking for only the most mainstream stuff, huge swathes of material is lost with every shutdown, especially now that the costs of servers and storage have quadrupled.

The idea of piracy being invincible is a myth from a different internet era along with old patterns like "platforms spring up and die constantly".

Yeah, in the 2000s that was true - but the main platforms we have today have been around for 20 years and have a stranglehold on users. The internet logic of the aughts no longer holds.

[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago) (2 children)

If it weren’t for piracy, the Internet would not exist

Well, it would, but it was still very much to look like the ARPANET, because, otherwise, it would have no reason to exist

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 minutes ago

I always thought porn was the catalyst.

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

Otoh AI wouldn't exist either.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago
[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Given recent events, all cloud-based LLMs should have been included here. In the history of humanity, there has never been a more profitable piracy operation.

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

The Italian government is strange because it goes only against pirated football TV streaming. They completely ignore all the other forms of piracy, except for the nautical one

false. they allow high seas piracy in the Mediterranean. a nation has been kidnapping civilians in international waters, torturing them, and no European nation gives a fuck.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 3 hours ago

going after other kinds is how you end up with naples covered in trash again

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

In ukraine, piracy is technically illegal, but nobody cares and its not enforced. In 2022 after full scale invasion, ukraine banned most popular russian piracy websites as a "sources of propaganda". Absolutely nothing has been done to foreign and especially local services.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

in south africa piracy is also technically illegal

but I only heard of one case of someone being prosecuted

someone was filesharing a locally produced film and the director sued

that was over a decade ago, and there might have been other cases where people were prosecuted for digital piracy since

but uh... someone I know... has been rawdogging torrents for years, no VPN, no fancy router settings or whatever

zero complaints from Hollywood nor ISPs

I doubt the police service will bother doing anything about it anytime soon

"Okay, today we could either monitor the TCP traffic of some guy downloading terabytes of copyrighted adult films... or we could go stop a gang shootout and do some state brutality to innocent citizens on the way back..."

"...last one to the squad car has to use that old R4 with the fucked barrel!"

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

I thought this was SBA for a sec