“China is a leading source for the manufacture and trafficking/export of devices that permit the installation of thirdparty, pre-loaded, or post-purchase infringing applications. This illegal business practice allows consumers to access pirated content,” the Hollywood group informed the USTR in 2021.
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“China is selling general purpose computers”.
Wow, so scary.
These people would DRM your eyeballs from birth if they could.
It's strangely funny how little these people understand that most regular people hate what they stand for. A lot of normal working people like torrenting and "stealing" movies, because movies are incredibly expensive to go to. Hell, it used to be a celebration when my dad would come home with a harddrive full of movies for me and my brothers to watch on our home projector. And we lived a nice and privedledged life in the suburbs.
Most people literally don’t think twice about if it’s legal or ethical to pirate movies and TV. Ask literally anyone under the age of 35 how they would watch a show and everyone had some illegal method, whether it’s torrenting or just one of those sketchy streaming sites
I had to go watch season two of that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cgi show on a random sketchy website cuz netflix only has season one
My dad pirated video games and vhs tapes for us. We also went to the movie theater and saw two movies in a row without paying for the second one a few times. ❤️
They're also the leading manufacturer and exporter of EVERYTHING ELSE DUMMY!
So literally exactly how common carriers are supposed to operate? That for some reason internet companies get to not follow?
When I look up server principle in regard to Chinese copyright law, this article is the only one that uses those words. Do you mind explaining what it means? Because I can't parse it.
Ah thank you! And why aren't the actual peers that offer the copyrighted content targeted? Do they just move around jurisdictions too fast for it to be worth it usually or something?
In simple terms, Chinese authorities are only concerned when a crime occurs inside China.
Torrent Freak saying "move to China for piracy related activities" in the subtext here.
Anyway they go into the trash forever because of the property loving spin they're putting on this. Oh no, muh property!
I had to back down from an arguement with several of my coworkers a few months ago because they were talking about a report showing that university students admitted to breaking IP laws and illegally sharing copies of textbooks. I argued that doing it is good and cool, but that admitting to it during a questionaire by a national magazine is probably a stupid idea. My coworkers all thought I had basically just admitted to being Satan and that these professors and publishers deserved every penny they could charge for the books, because they worked hard for them. In order not to get myself fired, I had to back down and drop the subject, but that was a real eye-opener.
Wtf? I don’t even know any professors that try to get students to buy textbooks. Every prof I work with will just send you a pdf of their own book and if you paid $200 for it they’d hit you with the book
Out of many classes I took, I had only one where a professor made us buy his workbook. It was overpriced but not obscene.
In simple terms, Chinese authorities are only concerned when a crime occurs inside China.
That seems eminently reasonable. None of the "we're the world's police" bullshit.
China has mastered the ancient art of minding your own business.
Imagine how this would read if China was concerned with crime that occurs outside of China
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Oh I can, cause /r/Europe was going crazy over some supposed Chinese police stations in the UK.
Intellectual property is the last bastion of imperialist rentier parasitism
You cannot be more parasitic than demand rent from digital information. The trend to the value of 0 of information speaks volumes. Even people that play video games and know how to easily pirate will pay additional for the service (friend list/trophies/saved games etc)
China's recent dynamism has come from little care toward property rights
It's probably just a stripped down Linux distribution running Kodi with a bunch of "unofficial" plugins and media sources. I'm working on building something similar out of an Orange Pi.
Honestly a VPN and qBittorent is way more simple for me, but I don't care to steam things on demand, I'd rather just have the high quality rip.
It’s probably just a stripped down Linux distribution
So is pretty much everything lol! Every wi-fi router at least.
amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B56RFZ81
aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804611683651.html
I miss your (I think) megapost about how to set up stremio, that was incredibly helpful.
Where was this posted? In which comm? It must be resurrected with sacrificial rites and/or blights if necessary
I have updated the first post to be visible, so the link to the post should work going forward.
dark rites, silent whisperings, splintered nails along a fiberglass wall
speak not of blasphemy
&ruination, a jest is a dark wish until fulfillmentedit: blessings onto you brethren
I will never stop sideloading sketchy apks into my no name Android box
Other countries are watching our propaganda for free?! This will not stand.
