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Cubans like ASOIAF slop too gorby-sad

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[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Cuban government actually never airs season 7 and 8 so Cubans blissfully think that they only made 6 seasons

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

the good version of "Tyler Durden got therapy"

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

There are little places you can go in Cuba to have a bunch of media downloaded to a USB drive for you.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

lol, we have that in mexico too

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

yeah I guess it's probably a thing in most of the world. At least anywhere the internet is super slow.

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

that's nothing! i heard there's communists out there who use programs such as Transmission or qBittorrent to watch all the movies and television they want for free! (without ads)

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

this post just made me wonder: is usenet bourgeois? because i'm not sharing the files like a torrent, i'm just downloading them?

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago

usenet is proletarian because it was invented while the soviet union still existed

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Seems difficult to seriously describe a service that is offered freely as bourgeois

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Where can you get full piracy access to usenet for free?

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why would they pay, especially regarding American copyright holders lmao? America has been embargoing them into the dirt since they killed Batista

imagine thinking this is bad lmao

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

The bigger horror is Cubans watching Hollywood slop

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago
[-] CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago

Gasp I am appalled and my heart breaks for HBO

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

Cubans like ASOIAF slop too

My brain parsed this as A Song of Ice As Fuck

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

imagine game of thrones, but Stannis was just absolutely iced out, grills and everything

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

These people have nation states and soveriegn wealth funds. It isn't like they can't afford it. It is the result of poor customer service. - GabeN

castro-stuff Behold! This is what amerikkka doesn't want you to see! commercial-district

[-] BabyTurtles@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago
[-] hyperpoopsucks@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

oh no my incest noncon historical fanfic author and the human chair company won't get money from sieged farmers the horror

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

i mean why would they

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Unpopular opinion here I know but IP protection of some description is needed under capitalism, if a corporation can just take someone's work and use it without compensating them, that's a capital-P Problem for artists. But this ain't that, HBO is not a struggling artiste who isn't being compensated for their work and Cuba isn't a for-profit enterprise using HBO's work to generate revenue. In other words this is unabashedly a good thing - the people who actually did the work have been compensated, and the Cuban people get their slop. In a better system everyone involved would like this outcome. The fact that it makes HBO executives mad only proves that they shouldn't exist.

[-] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I understand the intent, but needed is a strong word. The reality is that IP protection is used 1000x more frequently to screw over independent artistes than it it is used to help them. I would argue most independent artists who do make their living, do so in spite of copyright law, rather than thanks to it.

There's a hypothetical lib dream capitalist paradise out there where laws are half-thought through and applied fairly and some limited number of artists can now profit off their work thanks to IP law being 'correctly' applied. But trying to make a capitalist world where IP law actually works is like trying (and failing) to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic.

[-] ColombianLenin@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

ASOIAF is not slop, they could be watching cape shit instead

this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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