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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[-] SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Back? From where? looks around to make sure that in same place

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 1 year ago
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Define stealing digital content.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Copying is not theft 🎵

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[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 6 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised that so few people decide to follow the spirit of the law and, just, boycott media instead.

[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Bread and circuses, and peer pressure means you can't just settle for the free circus material you can get at the library or even just for free online.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The comments: "Wow this article is trash dont they know [reason] is why I'm back to piracy?"

Me: You do realize what EUIPO does, right? That maybe their paper has a very obvious bias?

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[-] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

TPB + VPN for many years now, just make sure that killswitch is on, got nabbed once by HBO, fortunately only got a nasty letter, nothing more

[-] PR_freak@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Set qbittorrent (i hope that's what you're using) to only use your VPN network interface and there is no need for a killswitch

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