end-users are rarely prosecuted or sued over piracy so idk why corporations wouldn’t get the same deal.

this is a big nothingburger if you wanna be honest.

piracy is much like drugs, where the occasional dealer gets nabbed if they’re too ostentatious but otherwise things just go on and on and on and on.

bad history.

even in 2007, piracy was a niche thing. your lame cousin probably didn’t download from demonoid or the pirate bay. more people did then than now but it wasn’t substantial.

there was still a reason to pirate even with netflix–there was a ton of content not available on DVD at that time.

at least 10 years ago all the good private torrent sites became severely restricted, some even entirely closing the doors for new members.

not sure where this piracy resurgence is going on, but it’s not on the good sites.

the reason for it is implied by looking into who he is and what he does. he’s not only a journalist but:

Matthew Petti is an assistant editor at Reason and a proud New Jersey native. He has previously reported for the BBC (in Persian and English), The Intercept, The Daily Beast, New Lines magazine, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The National Interest, among other publications. Matthew covers U.S. national security policy and its interactions with American society and domestic politics.

that’s not to defend anything that went on. but we know why he was detained.

there’s currently a retired T420 in my home and a stalwart E15 assisting me with my everyday computing needs.

make sure you say ‘thank you for your service’ every morning.

hey, scientist here. i did an extensive study on ram prices that tracked the cost of ram between 2007 and 2026. this may not sound impressive, because all i had to do was look at the average price every year, but trust me, bro, it was difficult.

if you think your average american can read or use microsoft excel you got another thing coming.

yeah, ok.

“atlantic writer” should be renamed to 'i’m a dumb, overeducated nepo-baby liberal that spends $15 on a coffee every morning and takes an entire month to write a horseshit essay that an indian could churn out on fiver for less than $5 if you asked nicely.

imagine doing all that lol. that indicates he takes a personal issue with abortion.

maybe we should start shaming men for this. ‘why you trying to pay child support, bro?’

that’s awesome. it only take 500,000 years to get there. i have hope we can achieve this by 2050 since there are so many geniuses heading major corporations. i have it on good authority that elon musk himself is currently working on cracking the mysteries of wormholes when he’s not posting on twitter.

who is this for?

those unicorn users who make 150k++ a year and pirate all their media and then wanna share it with their friends that they don’t have?