• for ISPs it might happen For DNSs it could happen to some extent For VPNs, i highly doubt that.

    i2p truly is going to be the future.

  • Meta, X, and ChatGPT have all automated mass piracy of art, music, articles, and anything their genAI touches. Surely you mean to start there?

    • Its only illegal when peasants do it, not when billionaires do it. *

      *it being anything.

    • They want to lock down file sharing so no one else can use the data to build AI now that they have it

      • 19 days

        This. Totally this. Illicit recording of live broadcast radio performances of black jazz and blues artists in the 20’s and 30’s was how the major labels got their coffers large enough to start to change laws to protect them from others doing what they did to those original musicians.

        The copyright enforcement laws came into place once they’d established themselves by breaking copyrights.

        Utter cunts.

  • 21 days

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

    • 21 days

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

      How DARE you!

      My piracy is morally; not financially driven

      • Mine is accessibility driven.

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

        • 20 days

          My wife and I have a game we play sometimes. We pick a title, and then we have a sort of race: can we find a way to watch something the “right” way before we are able to torrent it?