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- 5 Card Draw ( @RedCanasta@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 54•1 year ago
Just want to drop this here because of how ridiculous these entertainment cartels can be:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/eu-commission-piracy-report
Piracy aides in creating sales.
Up to 3% more for movies in theaters: https://hbr.org/2020/10/the-digital-piracy-dilemma
- Burstar ( @Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•1 year ago
Interesting. NAL, but I wonder if you are in legal trouble for game piracy if you could motion to dismiss due to their lack of standing due to this report…
- CraigeryTheKid ( @CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
The very article you posted says quite the contrary? You cherry picked a sentence that older movies see an uptick, but in nearly every other summary point, it says piracy reduces legal sales.
- Spaceman Spiff ( @Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 26•1 year ago
Isn’t there some sort of statute of limitations here? 12 years is an awfully long time
- Muddybulldog ( @muddybulldog@mylemmy.win ) 4•1 year ago
Sounds more like they’re going after Grande. Belief being the testimony would allow them to build a case that Grande incited or somehow induced privacy which would strip them from a number of legal protections that may apply to service providers.
- CALIGVLA ( @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 17•1 year ago
Good luck, bozos. What are you gonna do? Extradite me to the US?
- Jimmycrackcrack ( @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Extradited man: “What are you gonna do? Extradite me?”
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one ) 14•1 year ago
I will never take these companies’ side over a noble sailor of the high seas, but I took a look at the movies produced by Millennium Media, and they need every red cent they can get. They’re certainly not getting them from tickets or rentals. Good lord, I haven’t seen so much ripe stinking dogshit since the summer I spent clean cages at the animal shelter.
How humiliating to get copyright swatted for downloading something from the studio that brought you such timeless classics as The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure and Day of the Dead: Bloodline.
- minkshaman ( @minkshaman@lemmy.perthchat.org ) 12•1 year ago
Apparently this is the second time they’ve tried, and they’ve come with no new compelling case.
Maybe they think that Musk-lite will help them this time?
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) 11•1 year ago
Only 6? Really? I’m pretty sure /r/piracy existed and had more users than that in 2011.
Shit… I could be one. I got banned from /r/Gaming around that time just for telling someone what specific .BIN file to search for to get their playstation emulator running, despite others mentioning the same thing and their rules only saying you can’t post links.
- mintyfrog ( @mintyfrog@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
My guess is it’s 6 users that they’ve identified as doing a bunch of distribution but only have their reddit names to identify them
- 001100 010010 ( @001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•1 year ago
Yea good luck suing the entire
USAWorld- itsAsin ( @itsAsin@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 year ago
FYI, the article says that the ip addresses originate in Texas.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English4•1 year ago
They could have used proxies.
They could also no longer be in Texas, given it was 12 years ago.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 10•1 year ago
Lol, it’s entirely possible that that info has rusted away in the intervening decade, even if Reddit wanted to comply. This is a scare tactic.
- JonsJava ( @JonsJava@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
Reddit won a similar case a few months back.
- P03 Locke ( @p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•1 year ago
Uhhh, all of them?
- dave ( @dave@feddit.uk ) 3•1 year ago
It was probably Dave.