EU's Chat Control be like this
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Or the UK Online Safety Act or the similar legislation of many Southern US States (Florida, Texas..)
The most hilarious thing about that anti piracy campaign is that they stole (pirated) the song.
the font too
Omg! Yeah! I forgot about that bit! I often wonder if it's a snide nod, purposefully added or just a representation of the obvious hypocrisy that always existed in that message.
YoU wOuLdN’t DoWnLoAd A vPn
No and I definitely wouldn't use it to access content that's restricted in my area
I am gay, I do crime :3 😎😎
You wouldn't encrypt a perfectly innocent message and then send it to a friend.
Piracy is not crime if corpos stealing personal data is legal.
It's still a crime, because corpos and their lap dogs in the government decide what's a crime. It's not unethical, however, which is the real metric you should be using to determine what you should and shouldn't do.
Digital piracy (downloading) shouldn't even be a crime to begin with. The idea that it's the same as theft is fundamentally flawed.
Theft requires the original owner to be deprived of their property. Creating a copy of digital media does not deprive them of their media.
The counterargument to that is digital piracy deprives them of revenue, which itself is a flawed argument. Revenue is money, and they never owned the would-be consumer's money in the first place.
In addition to that, there's no guarantee that someone who pirated their media would have even been willing to pay for it if piracy wasn't an available option.
Interesting idea, but in most domestic and international contexts, digital assets and capital are considered under the law as protected one way or another. Generally most countries don't want to have to rewrite entire legal systems for the new age, and have used existing laws and presidents to apply to digital counterpoints.
Hence, businesses can get protections for intellectual property, licenses grant usage rights and protections, and also lets someone theoretically be prosecuted for piracy like theft, hacking like breaking and entering, harassment the same online and in person, or illicit goods and services all the same.
Far from perfect with all kinds of caveats, and desperately needing work globally, but to me, better than just letting things go free while laws are passed and rights granted or denied.
Digital media is protected by copyright law, yeah. I'm not arguing it isn't protected at all, I'm just saying the "piracy is theft" argument often used to claim that piracy is a crime is complete garbage that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
The "it's a copyright violation" argument is actually applicable, though. When creating a digital copy without the rightsholder's permission, an individual is creating an unauthorized copy and violating the creator's copyrights.
How that's applied legally and who bears the responsibility is where it gets interesting. It depends a lot on each country's own copyright laws, but generally, making something available for others to download is unambiguously illegal as unauthorized distribution of a copyrighted work.
Downloading that copy is more of a gray area. Is the downloader making a copy by downloading it? What if they don't save it, and instead just consume it like with streaming. Or is it a copy just by the mere act of saving data capable of creating a like-for-like representation of the original? What if that copy isn't a perfect copy, but degraded through multiple lossy re-compressions and only resembles the original?
In my original comment, I added the "(downloading)" as a bit of a nod to this whole argument. Uploading is unambiguously a violation in some form, but piracy in the form of streaming is a gray area that isn't actually illegal in a lot of places.
Haha helps not viewing it dead tired. Totally see where you were coming from there. It is an interesting point to make, especially given most view the need for IP protection for an individual or firm to extend only within reach of that party. Some are often enforced where common overlap occurs, like I could build surfboards under the name Tide and the soap people can't do jack.
Yet, books long out of circulation and print are still given full protection. If copyright technically allows home movie showing to extend to streaming, why isn't allowing home vcr recordings of tv movie broadcasts extended to downloading online streams given the actual method of data transfer is indistinguishablen from just watching it.
Shame that general priorities in law and policy are uh, what they are, I honestly would've loved seeing this stuff explored in the courts more, over just giving priority interest to corporations lol.
In my country piracy is technically illegal, but nobody cares and it isnt enforced. I remember earlier this year, government banned some piracy websites not because of piracy, but because they were hosting illegal media. The rest of local and well known piracy sites still freely available for everyone.
Exactly, and I can't even afford to buy everything I want. They were never going to get my money anyway. So it's not a lost sale for them at all, their argument for that is 100% BS.
fuck you, i'll do whatever the hell i want
(note: mods, i'm not saying it to the op)