Half-Life Free confirmed!

That shit bothered me as far back as in the 80’s on VHS rentals. They’ve never treated viewers as anything other than a sales opportunity. The motion picture industry has always been disgusting and dehumanizing.

They don’t roll these measures out to all YT accounts at once. I had to start a new google account to get the uBlock/Firefox combo to work again.

It cannot get better and it will definitely get worse.

Paying for enshittified services is not really “doing the right thing”. It only encourages further enshittification.

Duckduckgo has been my default for a couple years. It’s excellent.

Removing hate-speech is not censorship any more than removing CSAM is censorship. It’s just being responsible.

No worries at all my friend.

I was genuinely following your debate points until you got to:

Get outta here with this dumb shit.

I have been kind and polite our entire interaction. I didn’t even initially downvote you. In fact, I initially upvoted you. If I’ve worded something in a manner that implied I was attacking you, my apologies.

I’ve simply offered a reason one might include a specific phrase in their definition. There is no reason to be this angry or insulting in such an innocuous and ultimately meaningless debate.

You made some good points. I feel I made some good points. That should be the end of it, whether we agree or not. There’s no need to bring emotion into our interaction other than support for each other’s valid points.

In the state where I live, the penal code includes the legal definitions of words such as “theft”.

The legal system here does not use a Webster’s dictionary to define words. We use the penal code, code of criminal procedure, traffic code and other legal guidance codes to define the meanings of words used in the law and in official government communications.

These are the definitions that would be used by complainants in cases brought against pirates, if such a case were to be brought. For that reason, I believe these definitions are relevant here.

I’m not going to look up every state, but the Penal Code in some states explicitly define theft as:

A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of property.

So, I think it is reasonable to include intent to deprive as part of the definition.

This seems to focus heavily on Brazil-based operations. But it is sad to hear. I hope these service voids can be rapidly filled elsewhere.

PIA is a proven no-logger. They are also fast as hell.

Cloudflare should discontinue service to music streaming companies or music industry sites. Let the music industry go to war with the internet at large and see how this plays out for them.

Tidal lets you download entire albums and playlists. And you can import your playlists from Spotify.

Great username, btw.