Todd Bonzalez

This is like when Republicans complain that Biden detained record numbers of border-crossers, and I’m like “Isn’t that what you guys want him to do?”.

Not well versed in bird law, eh?

Tl;Dr: Sharing Nude scenes out-of-context are considered a form of involuntary pornography in Denmark (portraying artistic nudity as pornography) and this man was arrested for compiling and sharing nude scenes of Danish actors from Danish films and sharing them while inside Denmark…

This has nothing to do with film studio profits or piracy, this is a man who ran afowl of his home country’s laws about pornography.

And to be fair, a woman appearing nude in a film doesn’t mean that sexualizing the shit out of her publicly isn’t scummy fucked up behavior. I think I understand the law here.

I doubt it. Streaming sites like Fmovies are used almost entirely by technologically illiterate users. It’s for people who want to pirate, but don’t want to learn anything.

These users are going to remain helpless until the next malware-laden streaming website enters their lives.

They’re not about to install additional software to try to access anything, or at least not software like I2P or BitTorrent, because that would require effort and some amount of technical understanding to accomplish.

This is like wondering why so many people still use Twitter two years into Elon’s hostile takeover. People will resign themselves to defeat if it saves them from having to learn anything new.

I like the idea of Tor for torrents

Stop that! https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/

Look at the graphic my dude…

I love how the graphic they used subtly informs the user of where they can go to get the track, but it’s literally text from the complaint so they’re in the clear.

Torrents are just statistical correlations to our torrent clients.

I was briefly a Hexbear member pre-federation, and while I don’t have any proof, I left because that was exactly the vibe I got from the place.

Exploitive? C’mon mate, nobody is forcing you to watch new movies at the theater, or to eat hotdogs, candy, and popcorn while you’re there. The whole concept is outdated uncomfortable bullshit, and you have every right to abstain. At a minimum, go eat a meal before the movie and just fucking vibe without dumping wads of fat-soaked corn and carbonated sugar water into your gaping maw.

I don’t even bother with the big theaters anymore. I get my cinema fix from boutique neighborhood cinemas that play classics and offer dinner and a movie, and I pirate everything else for home viewing.

Corporate cinema sucks ass. You deserve to get price gouged if you haven’t figured that out yet.

If the company is going to claw it back from him against his will, he should be able to name his own price for selling it back to them.

55TB

3,500 movies, 28,000 TV show episodes, 120,000 audio tracks, and pretty much every single PlayStation/Sega/Nintendo game ever released.

You think this is funny?

Ladies and gentlemen, gather 'round and see the spectacular boot-swallowing man!

From what I understand he created a streaming site with over 200TB of content, and made several million dollars selling access to it.

While 48 years is a ridiculously draconian sentence, he wasn’t exactly an amateur pirate seeding his torrents too much or giving too many friends access to his Plex. He broke the one rule we all know will get your shit turned upside down: he directly profited off of piracy.

And he did it all using domestic web services inside the USA where he has zero legal protection…

I’m not so keen on fighting for this guy, because what he did isn’t comparable to even the most impressive Jellyfin admins on this sub, and he had awful opsec. If anything just learn a lesson from this guy and just maintain your own little personal archive for entertainment purposes.

4-5 years in prison each for discussing a highway protest (that never happened) on a Zoom call…

It must be hard for the Tankies that developed Lemmy that most users dislike their communities.

It’s a shame that a regressive and thoughtless fringe ideology is attached to the project.

But make no mistake, Tankies didn’t invent federated social media or ActivityPub, they wrote a single piece of software. If it wasn’t Lemmy, it would be Kbin or some other project.

If the Tankies keep it up, they might find their software doesn’t get much funding or community attention, so there’s no reason to convince yourself that this place will continue to exist as a Lemmy-centric network.

This is the kind of shit I want to see “AI” (machine learning) used for.

We know that whales have a language. We know they can communicate complex ideas. We’ve never been able to figure it out.

This could be the beginning of “first contact” with another intelligent species. We’re about to learn how much they fucking hate us. We’ll deserve every bit of what they have to say about us.

Yes, all those wealthy 17th century Puritan women who were killed for their land that they were allowed to have. I totally forgot about that. /s

What the fuck?