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Re:Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly fro... by welferkj on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:44AM (#46363291)
Standard precautions apply when using the internet while under authoritarian jurisdictions.
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Re:Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly fro... by caminante on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:15AM (#46364055)
>authoritarian

Copyright is widely adopted even in the most liberal democracies.

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Re:Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly fro... by welferkj on Monday December 29, 2025 @06:36PM (#46427443)
But using the modern affordances of coercive states to benefit copyright holders is very much non-standard in the free world. Only a few countries do it to personal end-users to any meaningful degree.
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