If the US only awarded actual damages like most of the rest of the world, instead of inflated punitive damages, then this would pretty much be a non-issue. Rightsholders in the US see targeting copyright infringement as a source of income, not a necessary indemnity.

All software from torrent sites should be treated with a wary eye.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

There are direct government petitions for the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

a lot of people choose Reddit, or Facebook, or Instagram, or Snapchat, because the tradeoff is agreeable.

A lot of people choose those sites because they don’t understand the trade off, because the site is presented as “free of charge” while the exchange of your data is a secondary transaction hidden in the fine print of the terms and conditions. It is NOT and exchange of data for access to the service, not at the point of sale, not the way they present it.

There is also a nuance in that you have to grant them rights to your work in order for them to legitimately host the material. This is essential, but they use it as an opportunity to claim far more rights than are necessary, without any fair exchange.

They still have the right to distribute it. It’s not like reddit, who not only claim the right but also apparently claim ownership of any content you publish there, while providing no consideration (payment) in return.

However, as you say, they have the right to deny you, and by copying you are subverting their rights. That’s still not theft, though, which is why copyright infringement is a separate offense.

Theft is a crime, copyright infringement is a civil matter.

Depends on how you define stealing.

Stealing is theft, or in US law larceny, which is very clearly defined. Copying does not meet this definition, hence why copyright infringement is a separate offense.

Theft is a crime, copyright infringement is a civil offense (except commercial copyright infringement, which can be reached if the value exceeds $1,000 - lobbyists worked hard to criminalise what normal citizens were doing and had success in this point, while they still get away with fleecing everyone, both artists and end users).

Always.

I think they’ve just defederated the community, so they can see users commenting from dbzer0 but can’t access [email protected] themselves.

But generally yes, federation is two way. It’s possible for one side to defederate while the other side to be federated, in which case users on one side could post comments but they’d only be visible to instances that are federated with them. Eg, if lemmy.world was not federated with dbzer0 at all, but it was still federated with lemmy.ml, then dbzer0 comments in lemmy.world would show up for dbzer0 and lemmy.ml users but not for lemmy.world.

The fingers on that mug, which also doesn’t have a handle, lmao

A guy on the Lemmy.world post posted this: https://github.com/TxzK/yuzu

They settled.

Yeah .tv is a little too mainstream, .to might be a better haven. Or any of the other small TLD’s.

Still no real answers about what’s happened.

You said a lot of shit, then in your 6th comment you finally explained that the feature was hidden away and can be restored. Then, I downloaded the app, found other issues that prevented me from verifying directly, but also found a support thread or something that explained how to restore it. I then reported back and admitted my mistake.

You said a lot of shit and threw a lot of insults before you eventually said something worthwhile. So I got something out of this, even if you have been and are a complete and total asshat. I’m better for having this conversation, meanwhile you’re still just as pathetic as you were 2 days ago - with nothing to give hope that you’ll ever improve.

For it to be a lie, I would have had to have known it was wrong to begin with. My immediate reversal when presented with the correct information (again, after 6 comments of bullshit) proves that I wasn’t lying.

Meanwhile, the fact that every single comment you’ve delivered has had pathetic insults (ad hominem much?) proves you are an asshat.

What did I lie about? I honestly held a misconception, and when you eventually got around to correcting that, I immediately owned up.

I didn’t resort to ad hominem, as much as you would like to use that buzzword to try and claw back a position when you’ve already lost the argument. I just got fed up with your incessant bad behaviour and had little choice but to call it out.

Apparently you’re not only an asshat, you’re also a sore loser. Not that this was ever about winning or losing for me, I just wanted to discuss the merits of ideas, but you apparently came here to shit all over other people. You should go hang out with seagulls, maybe they’ll teach you better aim - they’re certainly more respecatble than you.

Lmfao me calling out your bad behaviour is not an insult, nor is it in any way bad behaviour itself. Calling out bad behaviour is not an excuse for you to turn around and cry that you’re a victim.

You have behaved like an asshat for however many and every single comment you’ve delivered to me.

I’m not hurt, I’m entertained.

Before you jumped into this conversation, it was about Plex vs Jellyfin, about open source vs closed source, and about what it takes to get open source up to the same level.

You proved me wrong about one small point. It took you 6 comments to actually deliver that. I straight away verified that, owned up, and reframed my argument in line with the facts.

I understand it might be hard to keep track, you spew a lot of bullshit. I guess that’s why you and your various alts have been banned all across the major lemmy instances. Lol, it’s pretty funny that it seems like even hexbear were justified in banning you.

Still no comment about the trackers, I see.

You didn’t provide a correction until your 6th comment. You said a lot of bullshit before then. I made one mistake, after initially focusing on the merits of open source communities vs closed source businesses.

I haven’t spread fear, I made a mistake, which I’ve owned up to. 4 times now. Yet, you continue to be an asshat, with each and every comment. At this point I’m just curious to see how long you keep that up.

Pretty sure it was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc. Sony were actually the defendant, with their Betamax format. It does seem to focus primarily on time-shifting, ie recording live to watch later, however the reason for this was that the content was already available to the viewer and thus the copying should be permitted fair use. The Supreme Court also quoted Mr Rogers’ testimony in their ruling.

“Some public stations, as well as commercial stations, program the ‘Neighborhood’ at hours when some children cannot use it. I think that it’s a real service to families to be able to record such programs and show them at appropriate times. I have always felt that, with the advent of all of this new technology that allows people to tape the ‘Neighborhood’ off the air, and I’m speaking for the ‘Neighborhood’ because that’s what I produce, that they then become much more active in the programming of their family’s television life. Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been ‘You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.’ Maybe I’m going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important.”

Applying this reasoning to new technologies has since been debated back and forth through the decades with little clear resolution. Subsequent cases have sided with the rightsholders (eg against Grokster and Limewire), but the reasoning behind them was all over the place. They addressed the purpose of file sharing technology and concluded that those services existed primarily to facilitate copyright infringement, rather than addressing the matter of personal backups.

It never used to be a crime. Bastard lobbyists!