richmondez

Copyright infringement for me but not for thee.

Won’t someone think of the billion dollar businesses?

Disappointed to see so many people picking and choosing what is and isn’t acceptable to pirate.

We don’t know the OP circumstance and it’s a big assumption that he can just pay and it not be an issue in some way.

Average people deserve to get paid but we aren’t talking about scamming some custom content out of them, they already made the material in question and it’s a sunk cost, selling copies is as much rent seeking behaviour as when it’s done by big companies.

Also, let’s not use emotive incorrect language like “stealing” as it’s not, it’s copyright infringement, no one is stealing anything.

How do you even start to quantify something like a TV show? Without piracy would you have had subscription services, seen it free when it came on local TV and/or bought a box set of it? Similar situations exist for other media too, which “full price” are we talking about?

It’s more like the old school file sharing networks of like napster and emule. You give it a directory to share and it makes files in those directories available to download on the network and you can download what other people are sharing.

At a glance it looks like software to roll your own pirate bay equivalent? Not sure why you’d want to do that exactly when there is bitmagnet to sit on top of the torrent dht?

You should download it to a personal media server and stream it to your phone if you want to enjoy piracy the modern way.

An iso is a dump of a kind of rom…

While I’m sure usenet us all you say it is and more, I object at a philosophical level to paying for what is essentially a piracy service.

But once you have it’s output, unless you already know enough to judge if it’s correct or not you have to fall back to doing all those things you used the AI to avoid in order to verify what it told you.

If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?

I used to be with “it”. Then they change what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” amd what’s “it” seems wierd and scary to me. It will happen to you.

Yes but that is still one company which I doubt is a massive contributor to GDP. However upon reading more about it it seems it’s linked to Berlusconi so I’m guessing that its a case of corruption with these laws serving to protect personal profits?

I don’t get it, most of the streaming providers they are protecting are foreign companies, if anything piracy is keeping more money in the local economy so why go so hard on IP laws above and beyond any treaty requirements?

That is a fair point though honestly I don’t think the end user should be on the hook at all, it should be the people providing the service as they are the ones effectively running counterfeit streaming services.

Depending how long they had used the service they probably saved more than €150 just by not paying subscriptions to all the services they would need for the same content. Cost of doing business?

Converting from one lossless to another is still transcoding as you are changing the encoding format of the data. The conversion being lossy or not is related to the choice of formats, not the process itself.

I wouldn’t call anyone buying into a piracy service an elite pirate, they are the piracy equivalent of script kiddies.

The whole idea of copyright is a granting a state backed monopoly which is the antithesis of a free market as I understand it.

Easier to keep shares online 24/7 with a dockerised we app vs a desktop application I need to be logged in to a system for it to run. Best of both worlds would be a Nicotine+ like desktop fronted app that talked to the server component, but I don’t think there is such a ui app for slskd.