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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

“No governments care” is an outright lie. Sure, there’s always more they could do, but the EU is at the forefront of regulating tech. And that’s a big conglomeration of countries and their respective governments.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    @Crikeste When it comes to copyright laws, it feels like nothing’s really being done to look out for us, the consumers. Take the EU for example, they’re making YouTube use upload filters with Content ID. And in a lot of places, it’s still against the law to break DRM, even if you’re just making private copies. Honestly, I’m not so sure we can rely on governments to stand up to big corporations on our behalf.
    All intellectual property laws should be reworked, but nothing will happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    This, I think, is a problem that is caused by tech illiteracy in governments. I mean shit, even I barely understand the things you brought up, and I’m a millennial. The boomers (mostly) that run governments DEFINITELY don’t understand those things. At least, at the level someone like you may. And that’s a problem that needs to be solved, because ignorant people are easily taken advantage of.

    I still believe my point stands, but I absolutely agree with you.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The Liberal government in Canada just announced "The Online Harms Act", and a leading Canadian legal scholar/lawyer and information privacy advocate, Michael Geist, says that it's actually good legislation (for the most part).

    So, there's movement in the right direction in other jurisdictions, too.

    (Then again, our Senate is currently working on a bill to require age verification for porn, which we all know won't work and is a massive potential privacy quagmire.)

    Edit: lol, autocorrect "Lobster" instead of "Liberal".

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Bro, as a person living in a state that has imposed age verification for porn, it doesn’t work. At fucking ALL. Lmao

    Either websites don’t give a fuck (xvideos.com) or they have outright removed themselves from the state (pornhub.com and all it’s sisters).

    Not to mention that Twitter is practically a porn browser now.

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