Idk, the piracy community is huge here. Of all communities I’ve looked at, it’s by far the most active.

As someone very uninformed about Brave, what is unethical about it?

it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents.

The problem there is not with LibreOffice, but with Microsoft Office. They do not implement the format standard correctly.

Not that it eliminated your problem, but it’s important to understand who the real culprit is and why.

It should probably also be mentioned that she was laid off, not fired.

She was also the producer for Lightyear, which imo was not a very good movie.

When I was about ten years old, I bought the game Warrior Kings while visiting my grandparents using my birthday money. When I got home, I tried to install it on our computer, only to discover that the game wouldn’t install because of some DRM thing. Years later, I discovered what really happened was that the copy I bought was apparently not an original disc, but as a kid I had no way to know. I spent hours trying to install it, attempting many times over the next month. The pictures on the box looked so dang cool, but I never did get to play it.

DRM hurts consumers. When you aren’t able to use software you yourself paid for, that’s a negative. There is no benefit for the consumer, the benefit is only for the seller.

From what I remember, they only asked for a username and an optional email address.

Yep. A commercial license is $940 a year, and as far as I understand you need a separate license for each person using it.

Through a subscription fee, no less.

Why ignore ReVanced?

What about audio? We ought to crowd source every line of dialogue as well.

I still can’t figure out why anybody is using the site whatsoever.

Who on earth decided to leave the projector on while they took the group photo?

TIL there is a search function for Lemmy.

Yep, which is why many people had this exact experience: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

Incredibly relevant: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

It’s been said a million times, but piracy is an accessibility issue. Chasing your favorite shows across streaming platforms is exhausting.

If you’re looking for this specific episode, you can definitely find it out in the wild. As far as I can tell, pirating it is the only way to watch it here in the states.

it’s only bean. why you heff to be mad?

This is a thing at big tech companies. Allowlist and Blocklist are the terms they use now.