ifpi is private lobbying organization. that "watch list", from what i have gathered, is basically public shaming, it has no enforceable legal status whatsoever.

By this logic, Windows is also a piracy tool. Ban that please.

This FBI is pro-bestiality.

Awesome 😎 And this is why I need to disable "PUPS" every time I install a new copy of Winblows™

Thanks Micro$oft

Revelant:

"I think there’s a lot of fear in traditional institutions.... Nobody understands why one of their boys would do this really weird thing. What has the Internet done to these people? What is it doing to their own children? See, that’s the thing. If you’re part of traditional power right now, this thing that’s spreading over the earth, that’s changing everything.... If you were the MPAA a few years ago, or the RIAA, this Internet changed everything it touched into this weird thing, and it was like the Borg, or the zombie apocalypse. And if you wonder why they fight so hard, why they chase the Snowdens and try to shut down The Pirate Bay so much more than traditional criminals, it’s because it looks so much like the zombie, and possibly media apocalypse—and we already have their children."

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This isn't the first time. And I'm reminded of scenes from 1984 where Wilson Winston is literally erasing history on behalf of "the party".

their submission list is woefully incomplete, it doesn't list soulseek

Youtube itself has a download button I thought. I haven't tried it since you have to be logged in to use it.

I remember that concert venues used to go absolutely berserk about people recording concerts, whether by video or audio. The Grateful Dead were a well known exception since they allowed audio recording, but they still prohibited video recording. There was a famous movie "Diva" about a guy who snuck a portable Nagra reel-to-reel audio tape recorder into opera performances to get bootleg recordings of a famous opera singer.

Today though, there are fancam vids of every concert uploaded to youtube immediately after the concert, or even livestreams during it. IDK what changed but I doubt it's damaging the concert industry. Ticketmaster on the other hand is destroying the industry.