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Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free

baroffoos 7y ago
It matters for the people that create and distribute the cracks. Its much easier to simply dump the crack file/source on your website and freely distribute it if its legal to do so.
vageli 7y ago
> Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free The people distributing the software are at greater risk than those downloading it.
- paulie_a 7y ago
  The risk is basically nothing. You get a notification saying "don't do that again". In my younger days I helped distribution with various scene groups to the tune of terabytes of files. I think I got a few notices that ended in the garbage. At the time I was getting cracked copies from employees of ILM and pixar
  - PostOnce 7y ago
    A bunch of people have gone to prison, or been put on probation/house arrest and had to pay large fines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down
    - paulie_a 7y ago
      The odds are lower than winning the lottery.
      - astrodust 7y ago
        Yet people win the lottery every day. The EFF exists for a reason. Hopefully not a reason that you'll ever personally need, but if that day comes and the hammer comes down on you, you'll be thankful people prepared for that situation.
        paulie_a 7y ago
        1 in a 180 million. What is your point? The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. And most cracks come from overseas so good luck there.
        Thorrez 7y ago
        > The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. That depends on your definition of piracy. The EFF strongly fights against the DMCA. > Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. Low in terms of what? Punishment? A fair number of people have received harsh punishments, as already mentioned. You mention you were caught distributing a lot of pirated material, so the probability of getting caught seems high. The fraction of people that received a non-trivial punishment of those caught distributing a lot of pirated material is higher than 1/180 million.
        paulie_a 7y ago
        No I did not mention I was caught in any significant way. I never had a worry in the world about getting caught. Outside of receiving a no consequence piece of paper in the mail that means nothing.
  - Thorrez 7y ago
    Jeffry Reichert was sentenced to 1 year in prison for soldering a modchip onto a Wii. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13897503857017391741 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=138975038570173...
    - paulie_a 7y ago
      So he had a for profit business selling mod chips. That's totally different than downloading some files

It matters for the people that create and distribute the cracks. Its much easier to simply dump the crack file/source on your website and freely distribute it if its legal to do so.

vageli 7y ago

> Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free The people distributing the software are at greater risk than those downloading it.

paulie_a 7y ago
The risk is basically nothing. You get a notification saying "don't do that again". In my younger days I helped distribution with various scene groups to the tune of terabytes of files. I think I got a few notices that ended in the garbage. At the time I was getting cracked copies from employees of ILM and pixar
- PostOnce 7y ago
  A bunch of people have gone to prison, or been put on probation/house arrest and had to pay large fines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down
  - paulie_a 7y ago
    The odds are lower than winning the lottery.
    - astrodust 7y ago
      Yet people win the lottery every day. The EFF exists for a reason. Hopefully not a reason that you'll ever personally need, but if that day comes and the hammer comes down on you, you'll be thankful people prepared for that situation.
      - paulie_a 7y ago
        1 in a 180 million. What is your point? The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. And most cracks come from overseas so good luck there.
        Thorrez 7y ago
        > The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. That depends on your definition of piracy. The EFF strongly fights against the DMCA. > Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. Low in terms of what? Punishment? A fair number of people have received harsh punishments, as already mentioned. You mention you were caught distributing a lot of pirated material, so the probability of getting caught seems high. The fraction of people that received a non-trivial punishment of those caught distributing a lot of pirated material is higher than 1/180 million.
        paulie_a 7y ago
        No I did not mention I was caught in any significant way. I never had a worry in the world about getting caught. Outside of receiving a no consequence piece of paper in the mail that means nothing.
- Thorrez 7y ago
  Jeffry Reichert was sentenced to 1 year in prison for soldering a modchip onto a Wii. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13897503857017391741 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=138975038570173...
  - paulie_a 7y ago
    So he had a for profit business selling mod chips. That's totally different than downloading some files