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1. 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 00:17:23 JST 寮
   Looks like scamming boomers have won once again, as usual...
   
   Internet Archive is """Liable""" for Copyright (which is a scam) Infringement, Court DICKtates
   https://social.076.moe/url/239213
   • [Moved] Neopolitan (tn5421@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 00:22:41 JST [Moved] Neopolitan

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     @ryo
     > a New York federal judge
     
     Had to be either these chucklefucks or California.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 10:06:59 JST Terminal Autism

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     That was expected, I predicted it years ago. This world is shit, and it's so shit that it can't let you have any escape. Anything good that maybe existed in the past, they'll just hunt down and destroy. Life is worth losing.
   • Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 10:32:48 JST Wrongthink

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     @ryo I noticed they were down the other day. Centralization strikes again! (Centralized power grid)

     https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/internet-archive-data-center-goes-down-due-to-pge-power-outage/

   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 16:15:55 JST 寮

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     • Wrongthink
     Hell, if I were them I'd do what Rumble did.
     France demanded Rumble to censor RT, but instead they made themselves unavailable to French IP addresses, which is the way you handle busy bodies that only want to completely destroy the entire internet just because they fear they're losing out on 2 or 3 sales (which they don't).
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 16:28:03 JST 寮

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     Honestly, piracy doesn't cause lost sales at all.
     If you provide a good product, it will actually increase sales even!
     Because let's be realistic, there are 3 types of pirates: those who don't have the money needed to buy it at the time, those who are skeptical of the product in question (think censorshit, not enough raw footage available to come to the conclusion that it's actually worth it), and those who are in a region where the product is unavailable (like region locking, or Ruzzians right now).
     
     If you don't have the money to buy something you want, you pirate now, and pay back later when you do have the money.
     If you prevent someone from pirating, it doesn't magically spawn money into somebody's wallets, and after a while the person in question forgets the product exists, and just never buys even after they get the money.
     
     Now with rampant censorshit, you better be skeptical of a product or you'll get scammed.
     Pirates notably have the superior version for free, so you could pirate, and still buy the non-pirated version if you liked it, or just not buy it and delete it from your computer if you disliked it.
     
     And people in certain regions simply don't have access to it, so they can choose between importing (and depending on the country you live in, you'll have to pay either the postal service, or the government, or both as a punishment for importing something) or pirating, or just wait until it's available in your region, but chances are high that the version in your region is more censored.
     In the past it used to be that the last region got the most bugs fixed, but nowadays it's that the last region got the most censorshit.
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