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It’s gotten worse with a lot of things. JDownloader is much better now

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The Matrix thing is only really useful when you go inside the Matrix, where your limits are your mental strength. Outside the Matrix you’re still a weedy little person. Look at when Neo and Bane/Smith fought: it was messy, ugly, and the opposite of choreographed martial arts.

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Theoretically, but even Neo, the most powerful RedPill, could only bend the rules. His control over flight, bullets, things warping under stress around him, etc, is as close as he got to altering the virtual reality.

Just like the Agents, you can bend the rules, but you are still bound by them.

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I’m certain there’s one in Australia. There’s an Australian movie called “the cars that ate Paris” set in a remote Aussie town

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The Stuxnet episode was really good. Shows how a virus can be properly weaponised.

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I had things taste a little like chlorine, or something, for about 3 days. It sucked.

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Ad blocking being likened to piracy would be valid except for the fact that internet ads have always been predominantly intrusive, misleading, predatory, and malicious.

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Is piracy not inclusive of subverting the means for a producer to profit off of a product when using that product?

The issue I see in it is that businesses have made the assumption that internet adverts are the same as television adverts. They started using them as such and now they are having a hissy fit that they don’t have a captive audience.

If they find a way to force adverts on us, then we will be a captive audience once more.

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You haven’t disputed my description in any way.

In fact, it seems like you agree but you’re just spending a lot of effort defending the act of piracy.

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This has been the way for decades now.

What should be happening is people avoid the culprits and/or use an ad blocker. I do believe this is actually what’s happening, which is why content platforms like YouTube are looking for ways to control their audience.

Ad blockers aren’t illegal, but neither is a website blocking ad blockers. It’s an arms race that the content platforms will lose. So I wonder what will be the next step if the ad space depreciates too much to drive the content.

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You are suggesting that piracy eventually leads to profit. That’s not a definition of piracy.

I am saying piracy is obtaining a digital product in an unauthorised manner to avoid paying for the product.

I am ambivalent to piracy. I think it’s a common factor and it is up to content producers to combat it. I am familiar with the studies you’ve linked, but that’s not the topic I’m discussing.

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Social engineering is a major part of pen-testing and of hacking. It’s still impressive despite any carelessness.

What is your unpopular flim opinion

I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds

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The Happening was a good film.

People just see it as the dumb movie where plants make people commit suicide and has bad acting.

I see it more like the original dawn of the dead. It’s a mirror to society. I personally don’t believe the plants were doing anything. What happened is that the media machine latched onto anything they could put on TV, and before you knew it every other network news copied the unverified information. This happens so often in real life because every news station wants to be the first to report instead of being the truth.

Also, it’s pretty terrifying that people start becoming suicidal zombies and you have no idea why or how to stop it.

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I do this same thing. It’s there a name for it? Peer defiance?

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I think Predator 2 is better than the first film

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Every non Bond spy film does a better Bond film than the Bond franchise.

Man from Uncle, Kingsman, Mission Impossible, Austin Powers

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I find the people who do the whole “how have you not seen […]” Have not matured enough too have the awareness that other people have different life experiences. Lack of empathy.

It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

Most people have extremely weird ideas of what’s considered piracy and what isn’t. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that’s somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not...

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Perhaps it’s being presented as fair use? Education via the documentation of the lyrics?

It’s a bit of a stretch, but that’s all I’ve got.

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John Travolta must go undercover again as Nic Cage to run a sting on criminals who don’t realise he’s dead.

The face is done with surgical reconstruction or something

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This reminds me of the very real patent that exists for a television that requires you to stand up from your couch, raise your hands in the air, and shout the name of the product you just watched an ad for before it lets you return to watching your program.

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Abbott was also appointed Minister for Women.

The Voice which, if I understand correctly, wasn’t an offer of a seat in parliament, it was a constitutional amendment that would allow an advisory board for Aboriginal and Torres strait islanders. They wouldn’t have had any actual power any way.

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This is true, but there’s merit in preserving the original form of the product for historic purposes.

Doing a remaster is creating a new product, which would not classify as abandonware to me.

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If this thing relies on floppy, I don’t imagine it would be USB compatible

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I see, like those car radio cassette to aux cable modules

Piracy is Preservation (feddit.de)

Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...

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Art attack was also shown in Australia in the 90s. Surely there must be some copies somewhere. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking

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