@globalc Lesson: if you're ever accused of #pirating media, say you accidentally got it from a GenAI tool.

Behold my airplane sketches of giratina beanie babies xD #art #pokemon #pirating #sketch #wip

#Pirating #Torrenting 🎧#Spotify 🍿#Netflix.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor

Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan win lawsuit against Cloudflare for copyright infringement.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiGk1eYgUQI

#Anime #Cloudflare #Piracy #Copyright #Kadokawa #Kodansha #Shueisha #Shogakukan #Pirating #Pirate #Pirates #CopyrightInfringement #CopyrightLawsuit #Copyright_Infringement #BigNews #AnimeStudio #Japan

#Meta #AI #Pirating

Looks like streaming prices will increase every 12–24 months.

I remember an Apple Store employee once explaining to me that the iPhone keeps getting more expensive because it can do more things.

I guess that’s the same argument being applied here.

But it also it looks like the markets are saturated and the only way to increase profits will be through price increases.
#netflix #streaming #pirating #spotify

https://www.newsbreak.com/digital-music-news-296091106/4209165944159-fans-should-expect-streaming-price-increases-every-12-to-24-months-moving-forward-but-subs-will-still-top-1-5-billion-by-2035-goldman-sachs-report-claims

I am interested in writing norwegian subtitles for movies. Any advice what tools to use?

I'm thinking about doing it for perhaps some known movies like lord of the rings. I don't know how to safely pirate stuff.

#videoediting #pirating

#Facebook once again caught #pirating. This time adult movies.

#Copyright Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Pirating Adult Films for AI Training - TorrentFreak (Ernesto Van der Sar) https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-lawsuit-accuses-meta-of-pirating-adult-films-for-ai-training/

After about 15 years of using streaming services I eventually got fed up recently. For me the point of streaming services is to have access to vast amounts of music and, more importantly, discover new stuff I like. However niche music is often not to be found or even actively removed from the library, and #Spotify's recommendations (affects all services really, I've tried almost all over the years I think) are so utterly useless, for the last years I've basically paid 11€ a month for listening to the same ~50 songs or so over and over again. Spotify subjectively is especially shit in that regard: maybe it's just me but it seems no matter the size of the playlist, if you turn on shuffle it just plays ~20 tracks of it in a loop.

Anyway, so I went back to #pirating music and I gotta say I'm having a blast! I find that I enjoy and appreciate music more again, I listen to full albums as they were meant to, and most importantly:

The pirates out there offering their collection for download give way better recommendations than any streaming platform's crap algorithm. When someone's got some niche album I'm looking for I now always check the rest of their collection, it's fun looking around and usually I find something awesome I didn't know yet. It's like browsing your friends' CD rack and burning/ripping the ones you like back in the 90s/00s.

Speaking of the 00s – WTF, #Soulseek is still alive and kicking?! I was absolutely convinced it died 20 years ago along with Napster, Limewire and what they were all called back then.

Anyways, I got myself a pretty nice setup now:

* #Mullvad VPN 'cause I don't wanna get mail
* nicotine+ as Soulseek client
* #MPD and #rmpc for listening on my PC
* #syncthing to sync my collection to my phone
* #Auxio for listening on Android

Currently I'm also playing around with #blissify, a CLI tool that analyses your library, generates playlists based on similarity/mood and directly sends them to the MPD queue. Not sure about the results yet but I don't have a very huge/diverse collection so not sure what to expect anyway.

Well, hooray for #piracy!

And once again I am #pirating #software to #repair a thing that I own.

#righttorepair

#Judge Rules Training #AI on Authors' #Books Is Legal But #Pirating Them Is Not
A judge rules that #Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal #fairuse, but that stealing the books in the first place is #illegal.
\https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/

@Arios The Problem is #Windows.

Don't expect the "#DRMflag" to work when it's being used by @signalapp (which in and of itself is problematic for demanding #PII like #PhoneNumbers and shilling a #Shitcoin-#Scam named #MobileCoin!) because like the #API to signal to Windows "I'm an #Antivirus product, disable defender!" this will be abused.

• Also working around #MicrosoftRecall and #Microsoft's unwillingness to accept (denial of) #consent is just bad and we should stop normalizing the use of said #Govware alltogether, as eben #pirating it normalizes it's use.

If you are actually concerned re: #privacy you'd yert signal, educate others and use #XMPP+#OMEMO (i.e. @monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim ) or #PGP/MIME (i.e. @delta / #deltaChat & @thunderbird ) over @torproject / #Tor instead.

• It does take a bit of setup, but in return you get extreme gains in #privacy beyond what any #VPN provider can offer - legally and technically!

Not to mention #Signal falls under #CloudAct, so your privacy there is already nonexistant!

• Otherwise @Mer__edith would've been in jail for the rest of her life already due to the statistic inevitability of it's abuse!

I'm not talking #pirating #music...like where do all the cool new mp3.com-esque teenagers in their bedrooms making weird #viking music in Ableton Live put shit? Like that good ol' #indie shit that will never sell.

I’m really fed up with #Netflix. The #Kodi plugin stopped working AGAIN, and there is only ONE guy thanklessly developing it. Or they WERE developing it, because bloody Netflix constantly are changing things making it impossible to keep up. I just should stop paying them and go back to #pirating. 😤

🚀 "Save the planet by #pirating #macOS," they said. Turns out, running forbidden fruit on your clunky PC is the latest eco-friendly #trend 🌍. Because nothing says "sustainability" like making your hardware suffer through the existential crisis of pretending to be a Mac 🤓💻.
https://opengears.medium.com/hackintoshing-as-a-sustainable-environmental-practice-78baf2cdd353 #SaveThePlanet #EcoFriendly #ClunkyPC #Sustainability #HackerNews #ngated

Friendly reminder that paying for streaming services does not support individual artists, studios, filmmakers, etc. (especially small ones.) It supports the corporation giving you access to that media from behind a paywall.

If you do truly want to support these people, then stop paying for the walled-gardens they feel the need to publish to for mere pennies. Start going to shows, buying content directly from these artists, and spreading the word about their work.

#piracy #music #tv #series #movies #Spotify #Netflix #Hulu #pirating

Pirate: *pirates something*

User: Cool! I'd never had the intention to pay exorbitant prices for that.

Pirate: *shoves ads, account registration with credits, a cryptominer, and an indian tech-support scam*

User: Hello, FBI?

#Pirates #Pirating #SoftwarePiracy #Piracy #MoviePiracy #StreamingPiracy #SteamPiracy #GamePiracy #VideogamePiracy #Software #SoftwarePirate