Sony: still trying to make the Betamax monetization plan work…
do these dumbasses think people pirate without vpns?
I do. I’m an idiot and already got emails from my ISP.
I do and I never get emails from my ISP.
Are you outside the US?
Same.
We once got a letter from our isp because someone who was at our dnd game night was using our internet to download shit without telling us so that was fun.
He stopped when we showed him the letter (he was the only guy with a laptop so it had to be him at the time)
In that guys defence, it’s pretty common to just have your torrent client on in the background doing its thing. He was likely unaware either until seeing the notice.
We weren’t super angry at him, it was more a “you can’t do that here, we don’t want the internet suing us. Cause they’d sue us, not you” and he did stop, we never got a letter again.
Japanese corporate culture is fucking terrible. I don’t understand how anyone can support these gaming companies.
Edit: Gaming/Entertainment
UMG and Warner Bros are Japanese? Lol
Japanese corporate culture is atrocious ≠ American corporate culture isn’t atrocious
Both need some major reforms in order to be just non-awful, let alone acceptable.
My point is more that what they wrote didn’t make sense talking about Japanese corporations when more American companies are listed. The entertainment industry is simply awful, nationalities aside.
Pretty sure sony is Japanese.
Sony Music (the company involved in this lawsuit) is an American subsidiary of Sony Entertainment, a division of Sony Corporation of America.
Read the first sentence of the article
as digitized almost all societal functions are, we really should define basic internet access as a human right.
but think of the corporations!
Maybe Sony should have some things cutoff for that root kit, hmmm?
I’m so glad the internet hasn’t forgiven them for that.
I’m a bit sad that not everyone remembers when they made up a movie critic so they would have good quotes to put on ads for Sony Pictures movies.
I also haven’t forgiven them for trying to sue people for simply watching the Geohot video, or removing alternative OS functionality from the PS3, or for trying to reinvent MMC/SD memory cards in a different shape and charge more for for them. Hell, I still haven’t forgiven them for SonicStage.
I won’t buy anything from Sony for any reason. I don’t care what it is. I made damn sure my most recent camera purchase wasn’t a Sony, no matter what the reviews said. That’s because they pissed me off 20 years ago and haven’t demonstrated any improvement in behavior since. Nerds have long memories.
Fuck I still hate them for the minidisc
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“You wouldn’t SteAL a gUilLotINe!”
Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?
It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say “um, ackchually, the constitution doesn’t say anything about access to the internet”.
As an aside that’s one of the major things I’ve never understood about how SCOTUS developes rulings, ie: how they use ‘original intent’ to figure out current issues.
ah all good…nothing is lost. everytime ppl hate murican corpos more, the world becomes a better place.
apple making it hard to install warez, google forcing playstore,gsf and manifest3 on ppl
everything american is always shit. period. because entire culture is built on being a shit person. dont blame tump or sony or microsoft…it is the american people that just suck all the time.
I’m also an American, and this is 100% accurate. My countrymen are assholes, and the only thing they’ve ever cared about are problems that directly affect them.
Turns out the ‘shining beacon on a hill’ and the ‘thousand points of light’ they used to talk about were all crosses burning.
Huh, I’m American and I’m surrounded by people who are incredibly kind and nurturing and will bend over backwards to help others. Sounds like you live in a shit part of the country if you only have assholes near you.
You live in a country filled with people who voted Trump into power. You’re surrounded by assholes, and if you don’t think so then you’re either an asshole with them, or a blissful idiot. I’ll leave it to you to decide which.
I live in literally one of the most blue states there is. I know of 1 person who voted for Trump. And if a cup that is only 30% full is considered “overflowing” where you live I would love to move there and open up a bar. I’m sure I’d make a killing.
As an American, I approve this message. It’s accurate.
as an American this is an absolute truth nuke.
everytime ppl hate murican corpos more
FYI, SONY is a Japanese multinational corporation.
You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.
Blackrock owns the most shares too 🤡
Do not conflate the people with the corporations.
And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.
Cut off internet for people who pirate… Those people are now unable to stream anything… Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that… Deter no one because everyone thinks they won’t get caught.
Good move. Smart guys.
surely this is only for torrents right? there should be no way they can detect DDL.
We need a new internet, a new way to connect.
But what if you could chain the smart phones and laptops of the world together using WiFi and Bluetooth to create a wireless network that was free and open to everyone, with no need for Big Telecom?
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/pied-pipers-new-internet-isnt-just-possible-almost/
Some guy has already done it:
https://unsigned.io/hardware/RNode.html https://reticulum.network/
Same goes for other projects using the same frequencies. WiFi HaLow, LoRa/Meshtastic/LoRaWAN, Z Wave, Zigbee, Sigfox. All great tech.
Nice, that is a pretty cool use of radio signal.
Emigrating to internet friendly country is something I’d do in a week. I guess sharing someone else’s internet, or account identity is an option.
Knocking neighbors offline so there’s more hands for making molotov… good plan 😼
I won’t use a phone company that listens to my calls and criticizes me for who I speak with. I won’t use an internet provider that monitors what I download or shares that info with third parties. The only other way to catch someone downloading, is if an agent of the copyright holder is uploading the torrent file.
If you hire private security to give me free beer outside of your store, you can’t accuse me of shoplifting because I accepted the free beer.
So you’re saying you have a choice in ISPs? Sounds pretty cool.
My area has around 3 or 4 competing ISPs. (Canada)
I think they can also catch you seeding it.
All this with a VPN?
I’m not aware of any way they can catch you with a VPN.
420,696,969% tariffs on VPNs who let you connect outside the US.
Assuming no VPN is being used, to get your IP while you are seeding, they would need to be connected and downloading. When downloading a torrent you are also sharing the parts you have already downloaded with other torrent users. The agent of the copyright holder has to give the copyrighted material away for free in order to see the IP address of the seeders. By giving it away for free while in the employ of the copyright holder, they are authorizing the sharing of the material.
Is this true? You actually have to seed in order to download?
Download something and look at the columns in the torrent client. You will see download and upload speeds. While you are downloading, you are also sharing the same file with others who are downloading it.
hm, if you set your seed ratio to 0, maybe not though
Never tried that. I will look for that setting and see what it does next time I need to download something.
I’ve never tried it either. It would be kind of an asshole thing to do. Torrenting only works because everyone contributes their fair share.
Absolutely diabolical. Cutting off internet access is no different than cutting of electricity in modern society. Sure, you can live without it, but everything from paying your bills to getting a job or having a social life just got a whole lot harder. Fuck anyone who thinks this is a reasonable response.
The cruelty is the point
Also, the ignorance regarding VPNs.
Internet access is absolutely a utility in every function. And like a utility, most people don’t have a realistic alternative. Not without sky-high prices and/or slower speeds and less reliability. Thanks, Donald Trump.
