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Format-shifting and time-shifting your legally acquired and licensed media is not illegal. If the DRM is preventing someone from doing that then it is within their rights to remove the DRM. Recall that not everyone lives in a country subject to the draconian DMCA law.
Are you serious right now? You can't actually believe ordinary people will go out of their way to visit some random Github repository just to remove the DRM for their convenience. I guarantee you that 100% of contributers and users of that repo are doing piracy.
oh you're very confidently wrong, I very much will, you corporate bootlicker
Because that was the intended use case for this repository.
Don't people buy stuff on OF, more than just a sub? Is it easily available for download in a common file format or is access stuck on the website even though you bought it?
I agree that straight piracy of content is bad. Piracy is primarily a service problem, TV and movie piracy was down in the mid 2010s until all the streaming services divided. Music piracy is basically gone thanks to early iTunes and even more so with today's streaming services. OF piracy will always be a thing because people want their free porn and the parasocial relationship they don't get on the regular free sites.
If corporations refuse to just sell us the file and can randomly revoke access or change the content (like Amazon's been doing with book), then the community will find ways to strip out the DRM and other protections just to preserve the content they bought.
I don't have a problem with github removing of projects that aim to circumvent purchasing content, but projects that simply "unlock" purchased content should be allowed to thrive.
Edit: I should add, if corporations can't be bothered to respect what the word buy means, why I should I bother to provide them money? morality is a two way street, if one side is dishonest and shady, do they really have a right to whine when others steal from them?
Edit 2: in case it wasn't clear the "dishonest and shady" one is the corporations. Its to the point were I pretty much only pay creators directly (patreon, etc) where I know good chunk of my money goes to the artist not the publisher/middle man. If I'm buying a movie or something its either a DVD or getting screen caped on the first watch for archival purposes.
Ah, yes, remember all that tone of honesty and seriousness from companies in the 00s against bad, bad pirates, and also scorn at FOSS, like those amateur toys, we make better things? And now from time to time those "serious professional" programs from then are found to contain GPL violations. Or how Sony put a virus on music CDs.
TBH, there was a time when things were better with actually buying software and music and such. And probably the surge of piracy was first.
But somehow that doesn't hurt Steam. Quoting GN - because piracy is a service problem. People generally pirate what they can't comfortably buy. There were games I've never seen in stores in my childhood (no official localization, and by the time I got interested in them people selling bootleg discs in subway road crossings were coming out of fashion here). Piracy was the way I got them.
Piracy will always be a problem, someone is always looking for the free route. The paid routes used to be guarantees of availability, malware free, and a quality copy. Now its almost the opposite, a pirated file is always available, usually malware free and higher resolution than whatever the data mining services feel like feeding you.
It's very simple, one should legally target what's advertised as selling when it's not really selling. Heavily. Like fraud. Like obvious crime.
That will improve the situation.
Pirates breathe air, therefore oxygen is enabling copyright infringement
Right. Let's legalize nukes and bio-weapons for the average Joe. I'm sure someone is going to find a legitimate use for them that doesn't involve using them as a weapon. There is always someone who uses them in a fair way. So it's perfectly justified to allow them as they basically compare to oxygen now.
Logic checks out?
Don't forget to wipe your nose. You got a little shit there stuck there from all the corporate ass licking.