▲ 47 ▼ Italy busts €300 million streaming piracy ring (www.reuters.com) submitted 3 months ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to c/europe@feddit.org 14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 41 points 3 months ago (1 child) Reminds my that Google caused me 500 million in damages by not sending traffic to my website! permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery 2 points 3 months ago The lottery didn't transfer any winnings to my account (not that I ever played). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Evil_Shrubbery 2 points 3 months ago The lottery didn't transfer any winnings to my account (not that I ever played). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UndergroundParking@lemmy.cafe 27 points 3 months ago (1 child) network that caused roughly €300 million ($348 million) in damages to rights holders That's what - a couple of tv shows? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children) Not even one full season according to their bloated ass metrics. Probably some kid's Plex Server with a bootleg copy of Daredevil. Bunch of cops posing around a single drive NAS: "We single handedly saved the entire movie industry with this bust." "Unfortunately the 14 year old terrorist resisted arrest and shot himself in the the back of the head." (Wait this was Italy, not the U.S.) "Unfortunately the 14 year old terrorist resisted arrest and was hanged from the pillars at St Mark's square." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) From the article The operation targeted previously unseen technology built around an application called CINEMAGOAL, which connected users' devices to foreign servers that illegally decrypted streaming content, the Guardia di Finanza police said. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago What? My smartass comment wasn't based on fact? I'm shocked. Shocked I say. I was trying to be funny and highlight the egregious double standards the legal system has and the extreme hyperbole the industry uses to back up their monetary damages. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) Your joke lost steam when you conflated how US police acts towards petty crime or suspects on the monthly with the way good Italians strung up Mussolini. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) Oh, so you misunderstood the joke, ok. Or are you just gatekeeping your sacred indignation. Instead of rallying around "things are bad", you are creating more rifts/separation based off how much worse YOU think someone is than someone else. If that is what you are doing, then YOU are part of the problem. You are letting this shit divide instead of unite. And it wasn't a reference to Mussolini. Is that the only Italian you know that was "strung up"? He was murdered by a mob and then strung up, after getting caught trying to flee. No where near Venice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children) Not even one full season according to their bloated ass metrics. Probably some kid's Plex Server with a bootleg copy of Daredevil. Bunch of cops posing around a single drive NAS: "We single handedly saved the entire movie industry with this bust." "Unfortunately the 14 year old terrorist resisted arrest and shot himself in the the back of the head." (Wait this was Italy, not the U.S.) "Unfortunately the 14 year old terrorist resisted arrest and was hanged from the pillars at St Mark's square." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) From the article The operation targeted previously unseen technology built around an application called CINEMAGOAL, which connected users' devices to foreign servers that illegally decrypted streaming content, the Guardia di Finanza police said. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago What? My smartass comment wasn't based on fact? I'm shocked. Shocked I say. I was trying to be funny and highlight the egregious double standards the legal system has and the extreme hyperbole the industry uses to back up their monetary damages. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) Your joke lost steam when you conflated how US police acts towards petty crime or suspects on the monthly with the way good Italians strung up Mussolini. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) Oh, so you misunderstood the joke, ok. Or are you just gatekeeping your sacred indignation. Instead of rallying around "things are bad", you are creating more rifts/separation based off how much worse YOU think someone is than someone else. If that is what you are doing, then YOU are part of the problem. You are letting this shit divide instead of unite. And it wasn't a reference to Mussolini. Is that the only Italian you know that was "strung up"? He was murdered by a mob and then strung up, after getting caught trying to flee. No where near Venice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) From the article The operation targeted previously unseen technology built around an application called CINEMAGOAL, which connected users' devices to foreign servers that illegally decrypted streaming content, the Guardia di Finanza police said. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago What? My smartass comment wasn't based on fact? I'm shocked. Shocked I say. I was trying to be funny and highlight the egregious double standards the legal system has and the extreme hyperbole the industry uses to back up their monetary damages. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago What? My smartass comment wasn't based on fact? I'm shocked. Shocked I say. I was trying to be funny and highlight the egregious double standards the legal system has and the extreme hyperbole the industry uses to back up their monetary damages. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) Your joke lost steam when you conflated how US police acts towards petty crime or suspects on the monthly with the way good Italians strung up Mussolini. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) Oh, so you misunderstood the joke, ok. Or are you just gatekeeping your sacred indignation. Instead of rallying around "things are bad", you are creating more rifts/separation based off how much worse YOU think someone is than someone else. If that is what you are doing, then YOU are part of the problem. You are letting this shit divide instead of unite. And it wasn't a reference to Mussolini. Is that the only Italian you know that was "strung up"? He was murdered by a mob and then strung up, after getting caught trying to flee. No where near Venice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) Oh, so you misunderstood the joke, ok. Or are you just gatekeeping your sacred indignation. Instead of rallying around "things are bad", you are creating more rifts/separation based off how much worse YOU think someone is than someone else. If that is what you are doing, then YOU are part of the problem. You are letting this shit divide instead of unite. And it wasn't a reference to Mussolini. Is that the only Italian you know that was "strung up"? He was murdered by a mob and then strung up, after getting caught trying to flee. No where near Venice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 12 points 3 months ago Thank god they're spending their time and resources on important things like this and not useless things like helping the poor! permalink fedilink source
[–] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago The real scam is the "right holders" concept. permalink fedilink source
[–] Evil_Shrubbery 2 points 3 months ago Italy rally bootlicking not-their-boots lately (well, "lately"). permalink fedilink source
[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago What a bunch of sleazebags going after this instead of important crime permalink fedilink source
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