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I’ve seen better crops during the Irish famine
And yet, I’ve not seen a better comment in a good while!
Here you go:
Yeah, I haven’t seen a poster bomb this hard since the IRA
Same for Iran :)) We have no copyright so there are official platforms like netflix with all pirated movies and the national tv shows pirated movies constantly. Also, not a single person buys windows or office licenses here :))
No one buys legitimate windows or office licenses anywhere, lol (except for corporations, I guess)
Depends if you count OEM licences that came with their device as purchases, which would be the vast majority of people.
I gave my Linux laptop to my brother and that fucker bought a separate retail copy of windows (because it’d be stealing otherwise). I’m ashamed to be related to that fucker.
Sorry it was six years ago. I’m told to let it go, but I just don’t understand.
Never let go.
It’s infuriating, but if it’s your brother, unless he’s jeopardising an important priority in your life in a way that affects your life opportunities and/or wellbeing/health, ya should probably tolerate it somewhat. Like explain why what he did is a bad thing and let it be. Family discount. At least it’s not your parent that’s acting up.
Anyway, I am just talking out of my ass here, free advice, and all that. I don’t blame you at all, I’d be pissed too.
Oh i see him at family events I play with his kids. I even loaned him some money to buy a house. I just stopped talking about tech or exchanging tech. I stopped his access to my plex and nextcloud. I’m the tech guy of the family but he is blacklisted in tech.
In a stolen font
YOU WOULDNT STEAL A SHITTY OPERATING SYSTEM
lmaaao, I feel sorry for you
laughs in Linux
Too many clothes required.
Hahah yeah these fuckers have become great at adding clothes to the movie 😂😂
Imagine being incharge of national piracy
Such a flex🗿
How dare they after being treated so greatly by the US over the last decades? 😭
Have they said “thank you” once?
I bet they didn’t. So ungrateful!
Has Cuba tried wearing a suit?
Tan? Dijon mustard? No wonder Trump hates them.
Cropped it for you.
Imagine if they focused on creating tools that could jailbreak iOS devices, John Deere tractors, HP printers, etc. I bet they could sell that as a service. What could the US or American companies do to stop them? They could be Disenshittification Island.
That’s exactly what Cory Doctorow has been advocating for
I am personally betting a lot that this is where it’s going (career development-wise, not prediction markets, ugh)
US tech has been absolutely awful and stagnating for awhile. It’s one thing to continue to deal with it when it’s actually offering good value, but it’s not. Between the data sovereignty concerns and tariffs, the EU is positioned to jolt its own tech market if it’s ready to take the opportunity, and I think they are.
I’m not sure I’d expect anything big or grand, much like the “year of the Linux desktop” I don’t know that there will really be a breaking moment. Just slow building of momentum in that direction. And that’s all it really takes, once that momentum takes hold it’s not going to start flowing back to Microsoft. These greedy corporations overplayed their hand, they broke the agreements, and now there’s really no going back.
So I hope …
If anything, I expect the EU to try and keep anti-circumvention laws to benefit its own tech industry.
The neat thing about Doctorow’s proposal, though, is that at this point anyone could do it. Canada, India, Brazil… with tariffs already in play, there’s not really much to lose.
That’s his argument, but I don’t really buy it.
For example, what would Hollywood do if Canada suddenly stopped respecting copyright? (I know we’re talking about the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, but the C in DMCA is “Copyright”, so this would definitely be framed as Canada not respecting copyrights.) A lot of movies and TV shows are now made in Canada. I imagine a lot of those companies would pull their productions out of Canada. So, whichever politician passed the law would be labelled as the one who killed Canada’s entertainment industry.
If Canada allowed jailbreaking John Deere tractors, or HP printers, they might stop selling them in Canada. If Canada allowed people to bypass Apple’s App Store, Apple might ban all apps from Canadians and Canadian companies. That might piss off farmers, or CTOs, venture capitalists, etc.
Taking this step might create a lot of new jobs, but that’s a big unknown. How many jobs? How well paying? How long would it take for them to be established. They’d have to weigh that against all the people whose jobs might be disrupted. So, it’s much easier to stick with the status quo, even if that status quo means just bending over for the US.
I don’t think any these companies would stomach a cut in sales. They’d definitely try and fight any change in the courts.
I have considered that possibility, yeah. I’m not an expert by far, but it seems less likely.
Breaking from the US is going to cause an initial upheaval to the tech industry that the EU won’t be able to just immediately assert new anti-circumvention on while they are in the active process of a smash and grab. It’s going to take at least some amount of time for them to re-establish that on their terms during which people will become a lot better familiarized and practiced at what all this jailbreaking is going to look like.
People can resist during that time and while I don’t necessarily delude myself into thinking that’ll be super effective, it will also require legal coordination and brand new anti-circumvention tech. Could still be wishful thinking, but I don’t assume it’s just a done deal.
If there are broken up markets with anti-circumvention, then more attractive players will appear to compete without it.
Except that no country is likely to take him up on that suggestion because they’re afraid of how the US would react. Cuba’s already heavily sanctioned, so they have less to lose. Maybe nothing to lose.
Can’t sanction everyone. How many Navy ships are there?
At least 3.
Jesus Christ. How many times have the USA done something like this? And how many times are they currently doing something like this?
Yes and yes.
It’s uncountable.
The US already invaded Cuba, so…
Wen speaking about copyright and how the USA is abusing its power, this is worth watching
What could the US or American companies do to stop them?
The empire is literally bombing and starving the planet for the sake of capitalism and its MIC.
They’re already murdering cubans for nothing.
Exactly, so this wouldn’t make things any worse.
Expensive
Insert an NSA agent to put in backdoors, so they can track every user. Then lawsuits.
In what court, exactly?
On the American customers, for DMCA violation.
Probably a good way to spread American culture into the country… Sweden has become super Americanized just because of American movies.
My wife is Dutch and thinks that all American high schools look like an ivy league university and have students that look like they’re 20 walking around having sexy dramatic adventures. 🙈
Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want those kind of dreams it’s Californication…Sadly you’re likely right
And again… sad Finnish noices
Most of Europe I’d say…
Why does Sweden dislike the US so much according to this poll though:
Donald Trump has been threatening Europe both militarily and economically. Two years ago it would have been completely different.
Trump.
Ya don’t say.
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Im british, many younger people use American terms and have bits of American accents.
Same for Portugal, but in this case the American accent is from Brazil… 😅
Funnily i watched so much Star Trek: TNG 20 years ago that i developed an Oxford accent when speaking english lol
I believe Iran and other sanction countries would be doing the same? I see no drawbacks
it’s pretty much every country outside of the western hegemony.
any manufacturing city will have markets filled with factory overstock from various brands they produce for. it’s perfectly normal.
copyrights and trademarks do not exist in places where they are not enforced
Why expose yourself to legal risk by torrenting media (which involves uploading which is distributing) when you can find sites that stream it for you? Just go to Yandex and look up “blah stream” and you’ll find tons of sites streaming whatever you want.
I do this because I’ve tried to watch movies with online friends but every major streaming service I tried won’t let me share my screen and stream. They all break somehow. I’m not sure if it’s intentional or what, but it doesn’t matter.
Because streams can be janky and slow. Before I started torrenting, I would try to stream everything. It was hard to find good streams, and even when I thought I had found one, I’d still have shows pause and start stuttering during a critical moment in the story.
That’s true, but it’s also free.
Torrents are free, too.
Not without risking your ISP cutting your Internet off. You need a VPN to mitigate that risk.
I wonder if they actually cut it off. I’ve never tested it. Having a VPN is a good idea just from a privacy standpoint, though. The benefits for torrenting and getting around region locks are just a bonus.
I think random Russian streaming sites are far more risky but for different reasons
You won’t get your Internet cut off because some copyright holder sends your ISP a complaint.
Based and Cuba pilled
Just had myself some kind of freedom boner.
Do they have an official web stream? I think protonvpn has Cuba as a location, it would be interesting to see. lol
I saw that, and thought if people use that most of the time a) proton would eventually invest in more/better Cuban servers, and b) less likely to have copyright lawyers try and look at it.
Am I wrong?
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same in iran
I do that too!
I’ll drink a cuba libre to that!
