Can't believe the amount of heat we used to get for downloading an mp3 when every tech company is downloading the sum total of human expression to sell a scromited version back to us
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I can only speak for qbittorrent, but in settings, under network, you can bind it to a certain network interface. It will only send data out through that. In this case, it's the VPN tunnel interface. I believe Proton has info on their site about how to do this.
Do you think Lars and James ever look back at what they did with shame now that streaming services ensure that no one pirates music and no artists make any money?
Downloading an MP3 is stealing from the rich music industry. Stealing people's private data is taking from the poor and powerless. Cleary one is wrong and the other is a perfectly "fine" thing to do. I won't say which is which...
I had to do licencing for a show once. Companies wanted almost EVERYTHING financial (nameless, but still). Ticket sales, cast/crew salary, company running costs... Profit for a show worked out to be about $100/w (after costs)...they wanted $2k for a SINGLE song per week. They could just say no...
Piracy destroys the entertainment industry! Oh, and here’s a seven movie series based on a reboot of Bedtime For Bobo, largely created by AI and staring Chappell Roan in the Ronald Reagan role, and Dwayne Johnson as Bobo. Enjoy.
They were pissed because it was democratized not centralized and controlled. Why do we have giant power plants sending juice over countless miles of wires when in many states people could be nearly off grid with solar and storage community level microgrids? Control and profit. Not for society
Ah sorry, forgot the alt text. Old Mad Magazine cartoon: "When you're poor...and when you're rich." Example: When you're poor you're a glutton, when you're rich you're a gourmet.
"And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions." - Terry Pratchett, feet of clay
I had a cable modem in 1999
I also had a 10-year-old son and I let him download anything he wanted from Napster
He listened to the Beastie boys, Bach, Beethoven, the Beatles
I am currently training my brains LLM using fair use torrents of films and TV shows to avoid streaming services I don't wish to pay for and which may corrupt my LLM. My logic is as sound as the AI broligarchs.
To weed out dissenters with their world view. Much more than marketing. Had abortion? Past supporter of Dems? On contraception? Pro Jan6 committee? Trans? Racial identity? This is ethnic cleansing/political oppression at its early stage. 1) Gather data. 2) send in the goons
The record labels didn’t freely distribute and publish their intellectual property, where as y’all have been giving away your every thought to a machine which never forgets, for decades.
I don't understand the complacency in our country. Why did Spotify just have its first profitable year? Defeat that trash. But direct. Yes, you pay more, but think of it as a self imposed tarrif, except that it actually helps your country and community if you buy from local vendors.
Are you implying that the pedophiles who run our country then call us all perverts for being poor are telling us to do as they say, not as they do? Leave those poor defenseless billionaire child molesters who control our government and hate all of us and want us dead alone.
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Here's the proof they sold out 5,971 users in 2023.
Weird how they don't have 2024 numbers up 2 months into 2025. Probably sky high. But hey, you do you, keep defending MAGA vpn
https://proton.me/legal/transparency
Coming out to burn cash and orphanages (like normal people do)?
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions." - Terry Pratchett, feet of clay
me fucking around on bandcamp is NOT the same lmao
Movies/tv is this complicated because too many people, but books and music - LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!
i'm sure there are plenty of other artists worth talking about who use a pay-what-you-want model
That said, the point remains, regardless of other shit, that the free release, pay as you wish model works.
I also had a 10-year-old son and I let him download anything he wanted from Napster
He listened to the Beastie boys, Bach, Beethoven, the Beatles
For anyone else that hasnt: "'Scromiting' or 'scromit' is when someone screams and violently vomits simultaneously."
Shit is so fucked up
https://torrentfreak.com/sorry-the-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-ad-wasnt-pirated-170625/
the original false news was in reference to this case https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-corruption-scandal-surrounds-anti-piracy-campaign-111201/
you can see how it's details line up with the ones in the original false article https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/01/29/3678851.htm