That’s just politicians caving to their financial sponsors. The American entertainment industry tried and failed to make the same case against VCRs in the 1970s, and audio cassette recorders in the 1960s. Downloading by itself isn’t “piracy”.
It would have made an interesting ST: TNG episode where the Federation orders the Enterprise to attack a planet where the National Potato Council claims there are pirates writing replicator software to distribute free food. Meanwhile, the B plot is Data struggling to manage his subscriptions to holodeck sims.
Bypassing ads is already technically piracy as the concept of piracy is the idea you are stealing potential revenue.
So YT-DLP would be piracy aswell since it denies them revenue by allowing you to download the media.
Just wait till they start sueing people for each YouTube clip they download like they did with mp3s.
However, If you incorporate… feel free to pirate everything, unless youre Chinese…
Bypassing ads is already technically piracy as the concept of piracy is the idea you are stealing potential revenue.
No, piracy is about distributing unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Revenue has nothing to do with it.
An association has to always look like they are doing something for their members. that’s all.
OK. Is ffmpeg piracy or are they gonna continue to use it and not fund it?
This is the equivalent of calling right-clicking on a picture piracy. Utterly insane.
There are scripts on some sites that attempt to block right-click saving, you know.
Next up: uBlock Origin filters get called piracy
They already have been
of course they are crying about piracy again.
the music industry cries about piracy every time their sales slump.
Couldnt possibly be 90% of music is copy and paste slop. not to mention the rise of actual AI slop “music”
I don’t think these assholes understand that its a VERY useful tool for archiving the internet, which helps keep powerful people accountable. We must fight to keep this tool so that journalists and activists can keep speaking truth to power.
They are the powerful people, and they know why they don’t want to be kept accountable.
These assholes understand that perfectly. They represent rich and powerful people who don’t like being held accountable, and who treasure the ability to keep selling you shit without you actually owning it.
Man fuck them. A garden hose is a tool, just because I can choke my asshole neighbor to death with it doesn’t make it a garrote.
There aren’t enough bullets going through their corrupt faces, apparently.
Now can the IFPI treat genAI vendors as “commercialized piracy outlets”?
When I first got into emulation as a very early teen, I’ve heard a rumor about an admin of an Amiga ROM site being shot to death for piracy. However, nothing similar comes to against those who do it on an industrial scale, specifically to destroy a portion of the human experience.
The justice system will continue to be two-tiered until the ruling class decides that they want to stop being corrupt, sorry
The justice system will continue to be two-tiered until the
rulingEpstein classdecides that they want to stop being corrupthangs from the trees, sorryFixed that for you.
Thank you, I like what you did with it
In Sweden you are allowed to make copies for private useage. I can record and save whatever piece of media I want, as long as I don’t distribute it to other people and the material itself is not illegal (abuse material for example).
The problem in cases like this is not the copying, but the ability to bypass DRM. Creating and distributing tools that can do that is illegal in the US due to the DMCA. I think there are similar laws in the EU but I’m not sure.
Bypassing copy protection is not a crime in my country. The DMCA is a joke here and TPB creators knew it. Unfortunately the media companies used their threats of sanction on Sweden if they were not persecuted. Straight up maffia tactics.
Edit: TPB wasn’t really relevant to copy protection but I brought it up because of DMCA. TPB never hosted any copyrighted content and should not have been held liable.
I grew up in a town with a huge standing weekly flea market everyone knew about where everyone knew you were buying stolen stuff, fake IDs, bootlegs, etc. The way I finally convinced my family that TPB wasn’t illegal was by asking them if it was a crime to tell someone where the flea market was.
The funny part is if you could buy fake IDs then technically it was a crime to tell them where the flea market was.
Knowing where to commit a crime is not illegal.
Aiding and abetting is though my dude.
No, drm of that kind is also illegal
DRM of what kind is illegal where?
You’re going to get downvoted because pirates, by and large, feel entitled to other people’s labor for free. I’ve been pirating for two+ decades and I’m fully aware that what I’m doing is wrong. It’d be great if people could stop trying to justify their actions.
Its actually the capitalist class that feels entitled to other people labor for “free”, or grossly underpaid
Their labor was already exploited before it became a product for you to download
Think of the poor billionaires!
Piracy is morally right, we don’t owe them anything.
We see that copyright only matters to them if it is convenient, the latest example is training AI on copyrighted works without licenses. But there are many others.
It is also ironic that copyright was originally created to protect small authors from having a big corporation steal their creation and profit from it. Which is still happening. This is also the reason why originally copyright supposed to last 14 years. Because it was thought that 14 years was long enough time to have monopoly on idea
Only after corporations started bribing politicians they extended it to such ridiculous times and completely changed what copyright really was.
I didn’t make a statement on the morality of piracy, though. I only stated a fact about the DMCA and said I’m not sure what the EU situation is, hoping someone might know and add to the discussion. If people are downvoting me because they think I said piracy is bad, as you believe, then they are imagining things.
Personally, I think piracy is totally fine most of the time. The copyright system is immoral and does much more harm than good. Case in point, downloading a video from youtube should be allowed and the DMCA is working against the interest of the average person in making it illegal.
Just so you know, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) represents around 8,000 music labels across 70 countries.
Chucklefucks. Some unsigned artists, especially underground rappers, uploaded their tracks to Youtube, long before Facebook video and Spotify. That I also use DLP to grab very interesting videos before they can be unlisted or deleted.
Which of course ends up being a boon for said underground artists to actually get a chance to spread via word-of-mouth. Can’t have someone actually have success and creative freedom, no sir!
They describe the tool as an application that retrieves content by parsing web page data and interacting with platform playback endpoints, with GitHub serving as the primary delivery method for its source code, pre-compiled binaries, and installation instructions.
Omg, web browsers will be next!
You joke but killing general purpose browsers to sandbox everyone into curated apps would give most middle managing MBAs a priapism.
Nice use of the word priapism.
People have actually gone to prison for using the “view source” button in the web browser before. The RIAA mafia is deeply unserious.
You joke, but even the browsers capable of parsing the nightmare JS calls, are restricted in resolution on free platforms. Not to mention any niche browser.
Github after that
Git never needed GitHub and Microsoft is terrified people will remember that.
cassette tapes are going to melt their brains
Wait till you learn that most European countries require you to pay a protection fee to these fuckheads every time you buy anything capable of storing data including hard drives, SD cards, blank CDs etc. just because you could maybe store pirated music on them.
Man, the industry pushed so hard into cd’s to get away from tape and recordable media.
It’s not like you couldn’t burn CDs back in the day from limewire rips. I still use SoulSeek.
When the CD format was ratified, the media consortium did not foresee home CD production. It was a mass-production, high-tolerance plastic-pressing affair.
