Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown

Re:Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level ... by uconnectlol on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:19PM (#38436863)

why am i paying severe amounts of tax money to protect the investment [1] of some garbage software, movie, and music firms whose product quality for the last 20 years have been at an all time disgraceful low to the point where i'm basically getting scammed if i buy their products but there is a cartel of such companies so no matter what alternative i choose it's just as bad.

1. and not even. the threat of piracy is just theoretical

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Re:Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level ... by InCityDreams on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:58PM (#38439003)

>why am i paying severe amounts of tax money

Define "severe"?

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Re:Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level ... by lotsofpulp on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:12PM (#38439166)

All the court costs for litigating copyright issues are explicitly costs, the lack of creativity from people not being able to use previously created media an implicit cost.

Societies want to incentivize creating media, not creating a monopoly for 100+ years. Copyright protections should last 10 years.

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Re:Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level ... by darigo on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:48PM (#38439615)

ha, your comment reminds of that quote from the mentor:

"We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals"

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