https://gizmodo.com/russia-looks-at-legalizing-software-piracy-to-offset-sa-1848616859
https://torrentfreak.com/russia-will-probably-legalize-some-software-piracy-to-mitigate-sanctions-220307/
With how much online pirating runs on the backs of thankless Russians, this might just bring about a new golden age for piracy. :inshallah-script:
:wojak-nooo: NOOOO that's illegal and will make the marvel movie saddddd.
Quick somebody declare a no piracy zone to go with the no fly zone.
it's actually not illegal if they legalize it
that would be how laws work
Quick somebody declare a no piracy zone to go with the no fly zone.
A CNN talking head gets over-excited: "We're gonna shoot down their jets and we're gonna shoot down their hackers too. Glory to Ukraine. And glory to Microsoft..."
They basically did, and got zero points for it.
Poor Iran. Their hardliners kinda have a point, stop trying to negotiate with the west
They did for several months, expecting the US to demand a return to the deal. They figured someone would talk common sense into Trump. The deal always unilaterally benefited the US anyway. The entire deal was a scheme in which Iran would have their own assets (stored in international banks) unfrozen and returned to them, in exchange for Iran staying below a certain threshold of enriched uranium. They never made a nuke, and they never wanted to make a nuke that bad anyway. They just wanted a nuclear power grid that was less reliant on coal, oil, and gas from the west. The entire fear mongering about them making a nuke was just western racism, and the real policy goal was to keep them reliant on western fossil fuels. That's why their top nuclear scientist was assassinated. It was about energy, not weapons.
Looking forward to getting my laptop ransomwared by russian state actors and tsking the day off work
Me at the border with Russia: Let me innnnnnnnnnnnnn
Software would have to come from companies that have supported the current Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia.
Haha. That includes Microsoft.
noooooo please don't keep sanctioning russia, it would own us tankies so bad. Please don't own us
Hey by the piracy is a moral imperative. If you’re worried about developers, find one and send them the money instead
Aren't gizmodo writers on strike? Don't cross the picket line, find an archive link.
it was already basically like this. it was well known in the piracy community that russia wouldnt fuck with you if you just avoid supplying pirated games from russian companies. de facto, maybe not de jure
think it's the same with some dark net markets too now. they can sell whatever except weapons, child porn, and aren't allowed to sell info about russian citizens or russian allied citizens.
