this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
71 points (93.8% liked)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
54565 readers
529 users here now
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Rules • Full Version
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
Loot, Pillage, & Plunder
📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):
💰 Please help cover server costs.
Ko-fi | Liberapay |
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I bet so many of us work in IT lmao, we absolutely could do all of that. Issue is that most western people are at risk of law enforcement, just look at a bit of this:
https://www.reuters.com/world/british-man-gets-22-months-prison-over-global-movie-piracy-us-judge-2022-02-07/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/02/last-remaining-pirate-bay-founder-freed-from-jail-fredrik-neij
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/german-piracy-sentenced-jail-276076/
https://ca1.topnews.media/2023/06/15/in-new-zealand-two-men-who-helped-run-the-popular-pirate-site-megaupload-were-sentenced-to-prison-2/
Or look at Aaron Swartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
What he got slapped with trying to "steal" (COPY) intellectual "property“ from a university, which hoards knowledge like a dragon.
That we rely on Russians mainly for our shadow libraries is just one twisted facet of how this whole system is messed up. We could share all information and all human knowledge, with everyone for free!! We could have managed it technologically a decade ago. The monetary cost is so small nerds can now do it alone in their basement.
People could educate themselves to university levels and get reading comprehension like never seen before. I learned English mostly through books from these online libraries cause I was far from any IRL library in rural Austria and poor. Without it I would have stayed small minded like I was at 18 voting for conservatives.
Christians preach of sharing, many religions do, yet they (self proclaimed religious politicians and CEOs) put those who want to share it all into the farthest corners of the internet and in prison. To pretend like this possibility doesn‘t exist and one needs to be well off to afford books and go to some special place to get an education. All to make line go up.