Fuck you Sony…
Signed a lifelong pirate.
You can just download a house now:
Reason #56,789 of why Sony is on my permanent embargo list since 2002. They treat their customers like absolute shit. And they pay their bills.
If Sony is involved you know it’s straight sleaze. If there was an award for most evil company, they’d be leading.
Sony’s part of the fine was raised by a third for trying to obstruct the investigation by refusing to answer inquiries made by the EU officials and shredding of evidence during the multiple law-enforcement raids.
From their part in the videotape price fixing snafu back some 20 years. That’s how they roll.
Sony would be in the running. But i think nestle would beat them on the top spot.
They’d both be graping each others mothers for the prize I’m sure…
Funnily enough, my old employer hired an HR rep… formerly from Nestle. Just, wow. Like the worst kind of human I’ve ever met. Man can these shitty companies spot “talent.”
I’m convinced to work for either, you need to film yourself eating the liver from a blind baby in your final interview.
Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?
It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say “um, ackchually, the constitution doesn’t say anything about access to the internet”.
I won’t use a phone company that listens to my calls and criticizes me for who I speak with. I won’t use an internet provider that monitors what I download or shares that info with third parties. The only other way to catch someone downloading, is if an agent of the copyright holder is uploading the torrent file.
If you hire private security to give me free beer outside of your store, you can’t accuse me of shoplifting because I accepted the free beer.
So you’re saying you have a choice in ISPs? Sounds pretty cool.
I think they can also catch you seeding it.
All this with a VPN?
We need a new internet, a new way to connect.
But what if you could chain the smart phones and laptops of the world together using WiFi and Bluetooth to create a wireless network that was free and open to everyone, with no need for Big Telecom?
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/pied-pipers-new-internet-isnt-just-possible-almost/
Some guy has already done it:
https://unsigned.io/hardware/RNode.html https://reticulum.network/
Same goes for other projects using the same frequencies. WiFi HaLow, LoRa/Meshtastic/LoRaWAN, Z Wave, Zigbee, Sigfox. All great tech.
Nice, that is a pretty cool use of radio signal.
Cut off internet for people who pirate… Those people are now unable to stream anything… Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that… Deter no one because everyone thinks they won’t get caught.
Good move. Smart guys.
do these dumbasses think people pirate without vpns?
We once got a letter from our isp because someone who was at our dnd game night was using our internet to download shit without telling us so that was fun.
He stopped when we showed him the letter (he was the only guy with a laptop so it had to be him at the time)
In that guys defence, it’s pretty common to just have your torrent client on in the background doing its thing. He was likely unaware either until seeing the notice.
I do. I’m an idiot and already got emails from my ISP.
I do and I never get emails from my ISP.
Are you outside the US?
Same.
surely this is only for torrents right? there should be no way they can detect DDL.
Sony: still trying to make the Betamax monetization plan work…
ah all good…nothing is lost. everytime ppl hate murican corpos more, the world becomes a better place.
apple making it hard to install warez, google forcing playstore,gsf and manifest3 on ppl
everything american is always shit. period. because entire culture is built on being a shit person. dont blame tump or sony or microsoft…it is the american people that just suck all the time.
everytime ppl hate murican corpos more
FYI, SONY is a Japanese multinational corporation.
You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.
Blackrock owns the most shares too 🤡
Do not conflate the people with the corporations.
And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.
as an American this is an absolute truth nuke.
I’m also an American, and this is 100% accurate. My countrymen are assholes, and the only thing they’ve ever cared about are problems that directly affect them.
Huh, I’m American and I’m surrounded by people who are incredibly kind and nurturing and will bend over backwards to help others. Sounds like you live in a shit part of the country if you only have assholes near you.
Turns out the ‘shining beacon on a hill’ and the ‘thousand points of light’ they used to talk about were all crosses burning.
As an American, I approve this message. It’s accurate.
Shut up, Sony. Stop pirating Adobe Apps then.
I may or may not have been pirating media for over 20 years and this song and dance will never end.
Sure, the well known torrent sites have marginally less content and seeds than before but my Plex server may or may not still be packed full of classics and the latest releases.
The above may or may not be purely fictional and victimless. And no, I wouldn’t “steal a handbag.” Handbags aren’t infinite digital replicas, and handbag owners don’t drive supercars.
(I draw the line at software largely due to the risks, and partly due to Mac apps and Adobe suite being locked down pretty well. I’m happy to pay for software regardless. Netflix and Amazon on the other hand…)
Shit, I didn’t just pirate all the movies and TV shows I consume, but I also stole the server that hosts my Servarr stack that I download them onto from my last corporate job.
Yo ho ho, mateys, and a bottle of VPNs!
I pay for Netflix and get other shows that interest me elsewhere, they are few and come out every two years or so.
Well streaming shouldn’t have fucking won
We were trying to be reasonable and compromise… I know, how naive of us
Now that the streaming industry plunged head first into enshitification, we are back to our previously held practices
