Alien Nathan Edward

I WAS THE FIRST TO ADD A 9 TO A C NOW EVERY ACOUSTIC COVER FROM 1988 TO 2004 OWES ME $6

Sexual assault victims have a time limit. Copyright infringement “victims” do not. Tracks.

Oman I know where this is going

not sure which ones, but at least one charges you per day for the length of your sentence even if you’re let out early

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How does the latter not reasonably imply the former?

I’m not dumb and I write shit code all the time. Bad code only implies that the author is dumb if you assume only dumb people can make mistakes.

They generalized the problem and then released the solution. OP may own the discs they’re backing up but this solution is designed not to care whether you own the discs.

kinda feels like selling someone a burger and fries, taking away the fries and then going “no one lost a burger”. the digital copy is part of what was purchased, and its been taken away from purchasers with no recourse. The digital copy was part of the deal.

Piracy is really easy to compete against. Ask GabeN. Steam has singlehandedly taken me out of the piracy game because they have what I want, it’s super easy to get and if it’s not reasonably priced today I’ll wishlist it until it goes on sale (and it will). If it sucks, or my hardware can’t run it, I just dm someone and I get my money back. I know they can disappear shit from my library like any online store but they haven’t abused that privilege with me yet and that makes me confident they won’t.

With Netflix, there’s a small chance that they actually have what I want. If they do, it’s gonna disappear soon. Prices only ever go up, not down, and that series you love is gonna be cancelled as soon as it stops driving new subscriptions. To watch everything I want I can spend a hundred dollars a month on a rotating set of accounts on several streaming services or I can go LOOK for the MOVIE 2 stream for free without even messing with a DOT TOrrent file.

Piracy is easy to prevent if you provide a better service than the pirates. What he meant was that it’s hard to get people to pay you to shit in their mouths when someone else is giving out sandwiches.

I mean, if it were me I’d isolate the copyrighted assets in a way that makes them really easy to add or remove, remove them from the official distribution, then plop a tarball and an install script of some sort onto all the most common piracy outlets. If people want it, they’ll find it and legally I’m not liable because I’m just distributing a mod that has a place where you can put copyrighted assets

idk for sure but I think just android. it requires sideloading, on my android phone what it does is download an official version of spotify then patch it locally and install it. evidently it’s illegal to distribute the patched apk but not the original apk and the instructions for patching it, so this is how they get around that.

For now there’s an app called xmanager that will patch your Spotify install to give you full access to a paid account

but you’ll notice that it doesn’t say “we’ll own nothing and be happy”. they’re not willing to take the medicine they prescribe for you. they’re part of the class that’s destined to own everything.

How can they get away with lying like this?

The own* the people who decide what they can get away with.

*as in actually own, not their single-instance redefinition of “own” where it means ‘definitely do not own’

We paid researchers to determine if Grandmas can be crushed by mountains of third-party ink cartridges

surely for some small fee I can refresh the cartridge chip certificate

every once in a while they’ll just tell you how stupid they think you are. don’t ever forget it.

me as well, and I still use them when I’m on mobile and want a quick fix (MAM doesn’t allow mobile clients because they make it hard to track your stats).

Far, far better than audiobookbay

I wish it had a search function, but other than that it’s deffo been my audiobook player of choice for as.long as.i remember