No problem. I’m never going to criticize piracy because I don’t really care either way, but I wouldn’t want to see anyone pay several times as much for a product that’s worse for their needs.

Just FYI, the official way to watch after the fact isn’t Sunday ticket. It’s NFL+, and removes commercials from the main broadcast, along with providing an abbreviated version that cuts out all the between play stuff but keeps all the action, and access to the film, and is (in the US) $100, not as expensive as Sunday ticket. You can also search for specific plays by specific players with NFL Pro. (Edit: it looks like they still call it gamepass internationally, and you also get the games live).

Doesn’t mean don’t look for alternatives, but it’s not as expensive as you’re thinking unless you want live games.

“You can’t put it on the internet anywhere in the world because we own the rights in one country” is some deranged bullshit.

Fraud is pretty broad and covers most things that deliberately misrepresent reality to take money from someone else.

The premise that the school can sponsor programming that parents aren’t entitled to know and discuss the curriculum of is bonkers.

I’m fine with “selling cheats for use in an online game constitutes hacking” as an attempt to degrade the service for everyone else.

I’m not fine with them winning as a copyright issue. That is potentially a very damaging precedent.

Sure thing, bro. 👍

Again, you’re ignoring Switzerland’s actual position and their actual history.

Switzerland doesn’t enforce other countries’ laws.

It actually is. Switzerland isn’t part of the EU, and their cooperation agreement with europol is limited to specific things.

They absolutely will not cooperate with bullshit harassment laws against their citizens or businesses.

Not in Switzerland against regulation they consider the dumpster fire of horseshit it is.

Only if they give a shit about some random country’s shit law.

There are some treaties in play that allow copyright law to be enforced in some other jurisdictions, but that’s a far cry from a VPN. Switzerland isn’t going to help you enforce nonsense judgements against companies that don’t break any of their laws or laws most of the first world respects.

Is this their revenue on scientific journal bullshit, or total?

Because I’m pretty sure authors of their actual books get paid.

I give no fucks about them playing whack a mole with sites distributing their content.

But fuck those pieces of shit for harassing devs of a fucking reader app.

That is not acceptable.

Instead, the court went along with evidence presented by rightsholders, including a report compiled by a representative from the Association for the Fight against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA).

The report revealed that ALPA uploaded a copyright infringing file last year to test the takedown policy. While the uploaded content could indeed be removed, the representative was able to re-upload the same content later, without any countermeasures.

Fuck this shit.

The idea that a site is obligated to proactively scan user content is gross.

Supposedly even cloud saves of a dirty game can get you banned.

I don’t know if that’s true and am not really engaged with the piracy stuff. I did hack mine and have some of my cartridges ripped so I don’t have to swap them, and intend to install Android, so I’ve seen the basic guides and explored, and people have the impression that almost any time a copied game touches a Nintendo server there’s a risk.

Well that’s not unhinged at all…

I think writing quality textbooks absolutely qualifies as real, genuine contribution that deserves to be compensated.

It definitely doesn’t deserve to require a new, updated version of a $150 textbook every year that does nothing but change the problem sets to fuck students out of being able to buy used copies, though.

Academic journals charging obscene fees at both ends to monopolize publicly funded research that should be automatically in the public domain no matter what? Fuck them more.

The fun part is “statistically significant” is already a nonsense bar that doesn’t imply causation.

lol they tried to sue a company for saying a city name.

What a joke.