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Gotta love the little game record labels are playing where they can't sue individual pirates because if they did that with any regularity they would find themse
by Spivak 3y ago
Gotta love the little game record labels are playing where they can't sue individual pirates because if they did that with any regularity they would find themselves on the losing end of copyright reform so they're trying to deputize ISPs to quietly deal with the pirates for them and extract the damages from deep pockets.
I get that it's hard to compete with free but when the list of people guilty of piracy could be used as a census substitute talking about it as a crime stops really making sense. Laws are about capturing societal norms and we've demonstrated for going on 30 years that no one really cares.
- noqc 3y agoI've noticed a lot of college aged kids in particular becoming much more anti-piracy. About textbooks even. I've heard reports of people being kicked off of private discord servers for sharing a link to the course textbook. Somehow the PR campaign has gained some traction. I hope it's not a foothold.
- Grimblewald 3y agoThat's news to me. I work in tertiary education and the kids coming through now are less tech literate but generally appreciate piracy for everything from visual media to educational material, largly because cost of living has risen, financial support for students has decreased, and income has stagnated or decreased meaning if previous generations were unwilling those now are flat unable to pay for things. What I have noticed is younger folks tend to be smarter about knowing what to say, when and in what context, in a post privacy world.