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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 140 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Non of the people pirating content have money to buy more stuff. These tens of billions they talk about don't exist.

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  • [–] 100 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    Non of the people pirating content have money to buy more stuff

    How DARE you!

    My piracy is morally; not financially driven

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  • [–] 53 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Mine is accessibility driven.

    Oh, wanted to watch that series from last year to end? Too bad, it's gone now.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Mine's mostly financial, my moral objection is to streaming shows where, even if you have money, you can't buy the show on DVD.

    Though I wonder if streaming legally and ripping illegally would be the next viable option. Netflix's 720p streams are largely unprotected.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    If you're using a semi colon, you need to make sure it's a stand-alone sentence on both sides.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You might be the only person in the country that knows how to use semi colons then. I thought it was just when you are already breaking apart a sentence in commas and want a list within one of those comma breaks.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    If you mean like when you’re creating a list of items that already contain commas, such as New York, NY; Boston, MA; and Sacramento, CA, then that is also a valid use of semicolons.

    My error was writing my sentence with a valid semicolon, then editing the sentence structure without replacing the semicolon with a comma before posting.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (5 children)

    I would be surprised if most US politicians are capable of understanding the concept of duplicating files on a computer

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    You are correct. It's like expecting car salesmen to be able to understand how to do brain surgery.

    Most politicians are failed lawyers. And if they are too incompetent or corrupt to be representing people or entities in court, they sure are hell shouldn't be making calls about anything in society or in the political realm. And that obviously includes technology.

    Remember when late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens described (with great confidence) that the Internet "is like a series of tubes"? Classic example of their wider incompetence right there.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago

    You think they care about things like facts, or logic? No. This is, and always has been about control.

    Even the business side of things know piracy doesn't actually hurt business, it helps it. They've conducted studies on this since 2004. They found that the vast majority of pirates are actually the biggest spenders. They found more often than not a pirate will download a movie, or an album or a game, or whatever. Then within a month buy that same thing they just pirated.

    Thats the reason you used to see these record labels try to stop piracy back in the days of kazaa and napster, and limewire. There used to be lawsuits where they'd sue some household for 20 million dollars. Knowing they don't have it. Well what ended up happening is they ended up suing this elderly man who had no idea what limewire was. He didn't know how to use a computer. And the only one who used the computer was the 8 year old boy, who now had to live with his grandpa, because both his parents were killed by a drunk driver. Now this record label was trying to put his grandfather 20 million in debt. For someone who had no idea who the black eyed peas. When they kept asking him about it, he asked why they kept asking him about soup if this was about music theft.

    As the case went on, it was revealed that between his parents, and other family members, he had a cd collection, including the albums accused of stealing, worth over $5,000 worth of cds.

    The whole thing turned the public against record labels, and painted them as the bad guys for trying to ruin peoples lives over music. To this day I haven't heard of another time they tried that tactic.

    And the republicans know this.

    You have to remember one thing. The cruelty is the point. It doesn't need to make sense. It just needs to punish their enemies. And at times even punish their own base. I saw a story last night where a guy who voted for trump was complaining that insulin used to be $6, and now it's $80 under trumps new plan. And he said "I didn't think it would happen to ME!"

    And thats where we are right now. Just leaving the fuck around stage. Now entering the find out portion of our journey.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Mine is mostly convenience. I'm not going to try to figure out which of a dozen streaming sites have a show or movie that I want to watch, and manage all those subscriptions. I could probably figure out a way to afford them, but my time is more valuable.

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