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We're partly in this police state mess of legislation and user-hostile technology because of the history of piracy. Piracy isn't going to starve the bastards.
by neilv 1y ago
We're partly in this police state mess of legislation and user-hostile technology because of the history of piracy.
Piracy isn't going to starve the bastards. Piracy is helping the bastards, by giving them reason or pretext.
- jalapenos 1y ago[flagged]
- neilv 1y agoI just said how it helps them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- realusername 1y agoFor a very long time, piracy was the only way to get media online because the conglomerates refused to sell music and movies online. We didn't get there because of piracy.