Any suitably large company or web platform might be subject to a legal request like this. For once, it seems like users and reddit are on the same side here.
Lemmy’s only defense at the moment is obscurity, it too could face these court battles if it gained more prominence or attention.
Because I couldn’t find the photos. But feel free to share a link to them if you have one to contribute to the conversation instead of being critical of it.
It’s here for ages and it’s called sopcast. I was using it decade ago for soccer translations before moving to IPTV. After quick googling i see it’s still a thing.
Not to argue about what’s right or wrong, but companies spend a lot of (marketing) money on building hype for upcoming projects, and that stuff is planned out way ahead of time. Leaks fuck up their plans for what and when to release this stuff, and can mess up their timing.
They want the hype to be at its peak around release. Leaks can build hype at the wrong moment, and it can die down before the film releases.
Fair point, but unless you’re just interested in seeing something do poorly, leaks can absolutely fuck over somethings chances of success, often with no particular benefit.
Possibly, but I’d think there’s an equal chance that it interests new customers. I’d have to see data proving either way.
But it’s still ridiculous to be so concerned about the corporation that made a kabillion dollars in profit last year. If they’re so go at their business that they can make those kinds of profits, one leaked image is not a problem.
Western companies no longer operating in the Russian market, but still producing desirable content. … Western companies have ‘legalized’ piracy in Russia.
100% this.
Media is culture, and IMO people have a right to participate in culture. If it’s excessively difficult or impossible to legitimately access culture, one has the moral right to illegitimately access culture, and share it so others also have access.
It’s inexcusable to refuse to directly sell media. The internet has made it easier than ever to trade access to media for money. Geo-restricted subscription services should be a nice add-on option for power-consumers, not the only way to get access to something.
First I’m hearing of this drama. Guess I’ll hold off on updating until the dust settles. Tachiyoma and Komga are amazing - glad to see they’re not going anywhere.
Oddly enough, these are smaller independent studios instead of the Hollywood behemoths.
That said, the major studios will probably reignite their antipiracy fervor against individual users if they begin losing more money in the streaming market. But it’s important to remember that a very small segment of the population is privy to the torrenting world, while the masses will just keep watching the studios’ ad-infested crap because they see no other options.
Is there a way to get and pay seedboxes anonymously? Otherwise the feds could “just” get your information from them. Like with every VPN service you got to trust the the service and their confidentiality (not keeping logs etc) I guess?
Even if you do pay them anonymously, your IP will be recorded when you access/download from them. Case in point: Mullvad was forced to shut off port-forwarding because of torrent traffic on their network. Mullvad allows you to pay with Monero.
Don’t do it for the privacy, do it because having the server in a different country like the Netherlands makes it easier to pirate. For all they know, you’re just accessing random IPs in the Netherlands and all they see is HTTPS traffic.
IP alone isnt enough to convict someone in the states though. Since it only points to the local network and not the person on the network it could be anyone on that network. It was the issue the RIAA ran into when trying to take music downloaders to court.
They should be using seedboxes to seed, and should be using VPNs in other countries to upload their content. Worst case scenario, torrenting completely moves to i2p, eradicating the problems being faced by these groups today
I’ve admitted kinda taken a backseat to piracy for the last while, and I’ve seen this term come up a ton. Is it just a remote server that you download all of your shit on?
Yup. If you care about ratio then it has some proper speeds and ssd. But most people use it as a hop. I stopped and switched the arr to a docker network that only uses proton vpn. Best decision ever.
Precisely but it doesn’t have to be remote. Some people self host locally but that requires a fast connection and a vpn. Most remote seedbox’s are basically virtual private servers. They usually have apps like Jellyfin or plex for streaming all your content locally. Which is what I do and it’s very automated and convenient. You can also use your seedbox as a vpn tunnel. If you’re a member or interested in private torrent trackers, a seedbox is recommended to help keep your ratio high.
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