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Piracy Operator Goes from Jail to Getting Hired by a Tech Unicorn in a Month
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- btown 1y agoIf you're operating e-sports teams and want to build/market a new video livestreaming platform for fans, outside of the walled gardens of YouTube and Twitch and in a cost-efficient manner... bringing on an outspoken and talented entrepreneur who built that exact operation makes all the sense in the world! And from https://9z.gg/equipos https://9z.gg/equipos I see that one of their teams focuses on a racing simulator... so it seems the subject of this article is one of the few people in history to successfully reach the endgame of that legendary PSA that admonished viewers "You Wouldn't Download A Car." :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU
- giancarlostoro 1y agoThat aged poorly, I absolutely would download a car.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoThat ad was always recognized as stupid, that’s why it’s a meme.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoYeah, I know, but now with 3D printing advancements, its even stupider.
- edgineer 1y ago"You wouldn't download a car" never appears in the PSA
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoThat is also part of the joke. :-)
- giancarlostoro 1y agoThere was a video with it at some point
- edgineer 1y agoOnly parodies. The original campaign never said "download a car"
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI've definitely stolen many cars in GTA Vice City on the other hand ;)
- immibis 1y agoAlso both the font and the music in the ad were stolen.
- gus_massa 1y agoObligatory link to "You wouldn't steal a font" https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926 | 1401 points | April 2025 | 407 comments)
- hnlmorg 1y agoThe also didn't have the rights to the techno track playing in the background.
- gchamonlive 1y agoMeanwhile Milei got involved in a major crypto scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/$Libra_cryptocurrency_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/$Libra_cryptocurrency_scanda... and nothing really happened to him. I understand those are different circumstances, Milei having no such tech skills, I just find it ironic.
- thrance 1y agoTrump and his wife both did the same thing on day one of his second term. No one cares. At least Milei faced some public outrage, but Trump has a cult that will defend him in literally any circumstances. EDIT: I'm getting downvoted, as expected. Insane that just calling out the president on his crypto-scamming antics can get you anger from the right. I am yet to hear of a single republican even just acknowledging that Trump did something bad.
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- immibis 1y agoThe point of austerity and deregulation is to enrich the politicians who push it.
- maerF0x0 1y agoIt's important for the left to consider that many, many of the right did not want trump, they just felt he was better than what the Democrats offered. Let's not debate who is or isnt better but appreciate the fact that when those right wing voters had a choice they preferred this clown over that clown.
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- giancarlostoro 1y agoIf he writes good code I dont care what his personal life before working for me entails, long as he isnt doing illegal stuff on company resources.
- ramon156 1y agodefine "doing illegal stuff". Piracy is such a weird grey area, especially for companies
- bilekas 1y ago> Piracy is such a weird grey area, especially for companies I think most people will agree, torrenting/pirating on company resources is a dumb idea. You probably deserve to be fired for it, grey area or not. Unless you have Facebook's lawyers though, then it seems to be okay.
- hollywood_court 1y agoI feel like that's true for most 'stuff', but there are a few exceptions where I will refuse to hire an individual based on things they've done with their personal lives.
- constantcrying 1y ago>long as he isnt doing illegal stuff on company resources. Previous criminality is one of the most reliable indicators of future criminality. Of course this depends on the crime, but it is absurd to believe that someones past crimes do not reflect on their likelihood to commit crimes again.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoI wonder if there's more nuance there if we break down types of crime and then factor in economic and social conditions. If the only way I can see to get ahead is selling drugs and I end up in prison for it, when I come out now branded as felon do I have more options?
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- vlan0 1y ago"tech unicorn" why use those words?
- urmom157 1y agoargies are retarded
- tecleandor 1y agoBTW, "LaLiga" Spanish operator mentioned in the article as the one promoting the arrest of this guy in Argentina is the same mentioned this past weeks as getting Spanish ISPs to block wide ranges of IP addresses (specially Cloudflare) each time there's a football match on TV: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358433 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856
- urmom157 1y agofrom jail to getting hired by a slop factory meat grinder that pays like shit. his punishment continues
- winterrx 1y agoThe image of the person is hosted under their website as `/images/goat.jpg.webp`, interesting. Goat.