That’s why after you welcome yourself to the torrent world, you should introduce two others.

Can you explain what it does, or why one would want one?

I have come accross what many would consider big time online drug dealers who have little to no opsec… so you may be surprised. People are openly advertising meth on discord ffs.

Just send letters en masses to smaller players who can’t afford lawyers. Use those payments to hire lawyers to go after influencers and the next rung up… Use those payouts to hire even more lawyers, etc

Fairly sure some of us would go if we could afford that billion dollar in theatre tickets.

They will just ban VPN and make the punishment for being caught ridiculously draconian. Like terrorism charges.

That’s fine. They don’t care about a few really good pirates, they care about many low tech pirates.

And everything is done in Tails.

You would have to have another law that says that anything significantly devalued must be able to be purchased for the stated value. Otherwise they will just say it’s worth $1.

Just package it into the car warranty. Most people wouldn’t care then. For the most part new car people buy new cars and used car people buy used cars.

It’s a really good idea for the car manufacturer, as it would add one more annoyance to buying a used car. New car, no worries unless you plan to drive it into the ground. Used car, now you have to go online to see what subscription costs might be.

Swell guys they are. Although Jesus could have done without leaving behind his cult… they have been awfully destructive throughout history…

I have no idea how the law works in India, but I wonder if a small business could save money by just pointing Adobe at these people when they eventually get a lawsuit threat?

Just download all the porn of Youporn. I believe they hit the 100 TB threshold like a decade ago.

I just don’t understand why you would rewatch something 500 times when you get hot barney straight off the press back then… it was even super easy to watch barney later, you just pressed the red button and recorded over the tape.

And if one even bothered to read the manual, you could usually preset recording times on most devices. Although shows also had this weird habit of being offset by ad hoc commercial inserts or unplanned interruptions. So it wasn’t super uncommon on most channels (PBS was actually a bit of an exception, due to lack of ads) to be off a few minutes from schedule.

The 90s were neat.

It’s just still relatively cheap. I don’t know anyone who has more than 4 streaming services (although I am sure there are some) at once concurrently, that’s still cheaper than the average cable bill ($83).

I mean it was awfully silly when you had to insert a disc just to have to download part or all of the game anyway.

Not to mention that their is no guarantee ITunes even will exist forever. It’s highly unlikely, but possible that Apple decides in the future to get out of that business entirely…

That’s essentially the same as the various cable packages. It would take me longer to call and add more cable channels (if I had cable) than it would to sign up for every streaming service available.

I mean at least my parents had rabbit ears… kinda cruel to force a kid to rewatch Barney when PBS has been accessible over the air to 95% of people for like the last few decades.

Pretty spot on, I was skeptical at first when they released. “How the F are they going to jack up the prices to the rate they want from this low starting point without customers balking?” Then I remembered it’s a subscription service and like a quarter of the population doesn’t even look at their credit card statement details…

It’s not yet. You can drop your email on the site for a link when it is.

They said the quiet part out loud during the API fiasco. They are planning on selling the data to AI companies, it’s why old.reddit has to die.

Calling it all now (although in fairness it’s basically already public information, even if everyone doesn’t seem to believe it).

Oh yeah? You got nothing on the studios… They are planning on downloading actors and actresses

What’s a cheap good VPN for someone in the US?

When are we going to get a Hobbydrama community on Lemmy?