Modern day book burning. Done by the writers this time.
Modern day book burning. Done by the writers this time.
I wonder how they deal with flash storage degradation.
EDIT: Apparently the Switch uses something called XtraROM. See This for more info.
non-commercial file sharing is not piracy, the industry just re-defined it because they don’t want anyone to share stuff.
Was Empress also the one who did the unhinged “you are all my simps now” rant thing?
I feel like this post has devolved into nomenclature. My intent was not to tut tut people for using the wrong word, it was to say that Civil Disobedience is actually quite powerful, and we can use it to enact change at the government level.
As someone else said, that’s “passive resistance” and it’s fine and good. Just being a pirate is fighting the good fight.
“Having sex with your bully’s mum is passive resistance; Having sex with your bully’s mum while looking your bully in the eye is civil disobedience”.
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority).
The “refusal” part is where you challenge the authorities.
The “professed” part is where you do it publically.
The “media attention” is the bit where you are not an idiot. If no one knows you went to jail, that’s just willfully breaking the law.
My friend, you seem to be too young to have gone to a leech-n-lan. Those were indeed the days… yarrr…
I think it’s the other way around. Civil Disobedience is a type of passive resistance, but I think we’re both saying the same thing here. You don’t just have to do civil obedience to have passive resistance, and other techniques are equally valid. The two even go well together.
For example if a small number of people do a civil disobedience, you can quietly seed as well, so even if they’re all jailed the seeding will continue.
+1. I was giving an example but you really need everyone involved to sit down and think through the way things are going to work. Every successful act of civil disobedience is thoroughly planned out.
+1, it’s fine to just share.
Also I guess a finer point: Non-commercial filesharing is not piracy, we just call it that (somewhat) ironically because this is how the industry wants to label us. Almost all the laws imply a profit being made.
You must do it “loudly”. You have to seed in front of the prime minister, or get the news to cover you doing it, and put your real name out there.
…disappeared…
I wonder where they went…
i have a feeling this person is an Authoritarian. Like they believe that if we all stopped pirating then somehow they would get games for cheaper or for free. Like all the anger and the rage at the corporations is somehow turned back on the “pirates” who they are “subsidising”.
Sorry, yes that’s what I meant. The idea is to create accounts on private trackers, and one way to do this is to wait for open signups (which I used to use on Reddit, not sure what the Lemmy equivalent is). As you amass them, you can just input them straight into Prowlarr. Then, when looking for something; say, music in Lidarr, it will search all the private trackers and hunt for albums from that band (or movie, or TV show). Just set the seeding ratio on your Tracker to a high enough number to satisfy all the private trackers and Bob’s your uncle!
Yeah, setting up the Servarrs (Lidarr/Radarr/Sonarr + Prowlarr) along with your bt client, then trawling opensignups to get onto private torrent sites.
We need to block the adblock blockers…
Writers give publishers legitimacy. Publishers will regularly pull the writers out to trot out some “copyright is important” line.