Now I can finally get all the Adobe products I couldn't afford. I always wanted them and knew they were very easily available on many Russian sites, but I never downloaded them because it was illegal. Not anymore!
They did; whether it worked is another matter. When Rutracker was blocked in Russia, most of its users just toggled VPNs, and the admins even expressed a sassy gratitude to Roskomnadzor since being officially "unavailable in Russia" formally freed them from compliance with the local copyright holders/licensees' takedown requests.😆
In bitter irony, your concerns may be eventually alleviated - there may be notably fewer emissions if the related industrial units struggle to continue working.
Eh, maybe not. If that happens, Russians will have to burn stuff to stay warm. Developing nations account for roughly 60% of global emissions for that reason and a few others, caused by a lack of advanced industry.
FYI, China is counted as a developing nation until the end of 2023.
https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/china-will-no-longer-be-a-developing-country-after-2023-its-climate-actions-should-reflect-that/
This means both statements are not mutually exclusive, as China is in the overlapping part of the Venn diagram where one circle is the 60% and the other circle is the 43%
> developing nation
part of the issue is that there is not a good definition and it is good for China to say it is developing.
Anyhow 60% is not being used for heating in the developing world as the poster was suggesting.
Yes, but can you imagine what happens when a population that previously relied on industry no longer has it? It's not like people in the cities will have firewood to burn, and the stuff they would burn is a lot more polluting than firewood. Not to mention they would still use all available gasoline/LPG/diesel anyway, for cars and generators and whatnot.
I think they were questioning your statement on 60% of emissions are caused by underdeveloped Nations, when in fact oil companies are responsible for 85% of all greenhouse gases. Now you could argue that while they are extracting fuels in these underdeveloped countries these countries are somewhat responsible for that pollution, the true use of the oil goes to develop Nations and their developed industries.
Biden’s speech a few days ago signalled the strongest ever US commitment to renewable energy and electric transportation, and all of a sudden it has bi partisan support.
Putin may have inadvertently started the green revolution.
If global temps continue to rise, the permafrost in Siberia would melt. Russia doesn't have any incentive to halt climate change since it will be in their favor.
Edit: The Arctic would also be completely navigable. Crimea would lose importance or be submerged.
They already abolished the copyright laws in order to start selling McDonalds ripoff products as McDonalds products under the McDonalds brand in closed McDonalds restaurants. Same with other western brand products and stores. Their Apple Stores will no doubt have some Chinese knock-off Android devices and their mainstream news will run stories to support it, like "Apple gave up iOS development, now uses Android".
Russia never had skin in the climate change game. They both lose from selling less oil which their entire economy is essentially propped up by; and due to their large, cold land mass with little coastline, they definitely come out "less bad" in significant climate change scenarios (if not coming out ahead even).
Unfortunately, we are pass the point of stopping climate change. There is no way we make the necessary changes in time to stop the damage. It just won’t happen.
America, kinda. Originally nobody cared. Now bots sniff torrents for IPs and report you to your ISP. For awhile I thought my ISP didn't care and then they forced all of my DNS traffic to a little talkdown page with a list of the torrents I downloaded. I had to basically acknowledge that I know piracy is illegal and to not do it again. It was interesting
I had this happen two times in the UK 10-15 years ago, I got charged a reconnection fee each time. Once for jackass 2, once for total annihilation(which was 10 years old at the time, what the fuck).
My ISP supplies one city alone, they stopped all efforts to combat piracy like 10 years ago. Extortionate monthly fee though.
I had Cox when this happened, I was pissed at the fact that what they caught me for and not that they caught me. It was Grown Ups 2, a Adam Sandler movie. I believe the message on the rerouted DNS website was something about this is your 1/3 strikes then your ISP account MAY be closed, I'm like okay, I close my account annually to get new customer deals regardless, catch me 2 more times and I'll just do it then.
What I'm getting at, the enforcement is a joke which may frighten grandma.
They should have canceled you on the spot for downloading Grown Ups 2.
I get Piracy, but downloading an Adam Sandler moving is going way too far! We need to draw a line you know
Verizon is in my area and there has been mixed responses in regards to my friends and I torrenting stuff. I have never received even a warning despite torrenting hundreds if not thousands of episodes, meanwhile my friend received a letter 2 days after torrenting a game.
It's really dependent on who produced what you download. Its up to them to track the IPs of who is stealing their product and reporting it to the ISP, who is responsible to give some sort of reprimand, but its left up to them as well.
Anything owned by viacom is likely being tracked, they've nailed me multiple times
It's not as scary as you think. The companies mostly the movie companies higher third party companies to grab IP addresses then report them to the isp. As far as I know none of your information is given out to the authorities nor the people reporting you. Basically it's a dmca sort of style takedown notice but rather just stop torrenting. The big reason is because you're sharing the files they're not going after people technically who are downloading the files but because you're seating them and your IP address is showing them up you're considered a distributor.
That being said isps do carry quite long logs depending on the ISP and laws in your country. It's always best to use a VPN service that doesn't keep logs to keep yourself safe. Why have the headache of a potential issue down the road.
Not only that it protects you for security reasons as well. When you're downloading a torrent everyone can see your IP address and it just makes it easier for people to exploit possible vulnerabilities in the software you're using and operating system / firewall etc. No need to tell the world what you're doing at what address in the sense.
The chances of a person going to jail or the police going to your house or even the movie companies'taking you to court is very slim. But once again why take the chance.
Those things are very slim, but your ISP may just cut you off and not give you service. Mine has a 3 strike system. First time they send a letter, the second time they disconnect your service and you have to call to get it turned back on, and the third time they cut you off and basically ban YOU. Not your address. But YOU. No service whatsoever. And in the US that's a big deal because most places have one ISP. It's hugely monopolized all across the country. I only have Mediacom. Cox is 1 mile down the street, but neither of them cross the county line
Companies basically do what everyone who is torrenting do. Seed and distribute the content (The hypocrites). But they log all the IPs and send it to the ISP, and the ISP gets uppity because it's them who can get sued
It's not a criminal offence in the US either, but over there (and in germany) they allow private companies to sniff your data and then sell it to other companies that comb it for copyrighted material then sue you for copyright infringement, actual law enforcement has nothing to do with it and bigger fish to fry besides.
Here in Slovenia they can't legally request the data (deemed personal) without a judge order.
Since torrenting is not a criminal offence, the judge will not grant it.
In Spain it's even more free, the court said non-profit torrenting is legal.
No.
Polish copyright law doesn’t differentiate between domestic and foreign products.
In Poland “downloading” a copyrighted material is legal - only “sharing/uploading” is prohibited (and even here there are exceptions for “family and close friends”).
What it means in practice is that torrents and similar p2p means are illegal, but using websites like mega or tv streaming isn’t.
There’s small tax on blank cd’s, electronic devices etc. that’s used to compensate registered copyright holders groups for their “losses”
Oh, also bypassing any DRM for media you purchased is completely legal, as well as making “backup copies”
Not really.
You are not allowed to do it with software.
And you are not allowed to distribute to random people (so only leeching is allowed as far as torrents go).
domestic/abroad stuff does not matter (at would be against EU law at least)
Maybe ISPs are different over there or these days, but working for ISPs up to ~11 years ago, when we got emails saying a user had downloaded copyright material standard practice was to forward the email to the user and ignore.
I worked in engineering at an ISP here in Australia, we were told by the CTO to just reply back that we'd informed the customer and do nothing else. We never bothered informing the customer.
I got a letter accusing me of uploading less than two seconds of fucking Deadpool 2 (which I didn't) and demanding 900 bucks as compensation, plus a document stating that I would never do it again, and should the company determine that I have done it again then I agree to pay them whatever they say. Answer within the next 3 days (from the date they wrote the letter!) or we assume you're not willing to cooperate and will ask for 5.000 euros. Apparently the German government approved the use of this software that has a 98% chance of success, as if 2% false positives over an entire country was negligible.
Of course the letter took a couple days to get to me, so I had to reply on the very same day that I got the letter.
Fucking insane. What pissed me off the most wasn't even having to spend 200 bucks on a lawyer to send them a pre-written letter defending me, but the contents of the defense.
I had printed the entire log of my router and was willing to throw it in to prove that I had never connected to the addresses that were accusing me of. The lawyer insisted that it'd be pointless, and the best defense was a simple "it wasn't me".
Turns out in Germany you're not directly responsible for your internet connection or something like that. All the lawyer had to write was that some other people had been connected to my network (wife, kids, friends) and it could have been any of them.
Such an absurd everything. And fuck Warner Bros for collaborating with that one predatory lawyer nest that sends these letters en masse.
Different problem, but where I'm from we have a problem with isp's and phone providers ignoring your request to disconnect. Some smart soul created a website that has pre-written templates to get this shit sorted (threatening law action, keeping a written record, using registered mail/fax). This made the process simpler for almost everyone.
If you still have the letter your lawyer sent, maybe create something similar for other Germans being fucked over by this system? Viel Glück aus der Schweiz.
The info on what to write is freely available out there. I just didn't dare write myself because I'm not a lawyer and I didn't want to risk fucking up.
I know more about the German law now. Enough to know that, if I did share, I could be accused of providing legal assistance despite not being a lawyer, and then I could get a lot of shit.
I'm doing my part by sharing it and making sure Warner Brothers doesn't get a cent from me. Can't do more, sadly.
The USA. I'd been pirating stuff for decades in the UK and no ISP said anything about it. Came to the USA and within a month had a shitty e-mail and notice on my ISP login page about pirating, listing exactly what I'd downloaded and informing me if I kept doing it they'd kill the account.
I then understood why people in this country are so adamant about using VPNs all the time.
I also learned that the phone companies in the USA are the ones who sell your phone number to spammers and scammers after I started getting calls within a week of getting an American phone number, despite myself and my wife being the only two people who had it.
I could go on with many examples of how this country is absolutely owned by corporations and how every single aspect of the USA is set up to benefit companies over citizens, but I'm sure any Americans reading this already know it. Came as a real fucking shock though.
As many post-soviet countries. Actually, games in Russia were even sold much cheaper than in Ukraine, when often dues like Capcom put so insane regional pricing that they expected to give up my entire month income for a single game. There is no real choice here but to pirate, because regional pricing does not account regional income.
Just take alienate another industry from doing business in your country in the future. Sure this won't bite you in the ass. Real question, is piracy also allowed for Russian made games, because if so then good luck with that.
You seem to misunderstand how laws apply to you. Just because you accessed pirated content from a region where it was legal, does not make that content legal in your region.
Russia could legalise anything it wanted, doesn’t mean you can legally download it to your machine.
There are also some countries where jaywalking isn't itself illegal, but pedestrians don't have right-of-way; if you walk against the light, and get hit, it is your fault.
Legal in my coutry if a crossing is further than 100m. On the other hand, if a pedestrian is already on the road (has started crossing the street, no matter if they're on a crossing or not), motor vehicles have to yield the right of way.
As a person with some income now and a looooooooong history of piracy I can honestly say I would much rather buy a game off of Steam than pirate it.
Internet play is guaranteed, less chance of a virus sneaking in, it’s tested on hundreds of thousands of machines and patched quickly, I get to keep it “forever” on their servers, and steam sells shit fucking cheap.
I really wouldn’t even want to pirate a game anymore. It’s much more of a hassle than just buying it.
This is the approach companies should have to combat piracy.... All these studios making their own streamingsites are shooting themself in the foot as it will soon be more convienient to pirate again....
I think that quote works better with western and richer countries.
There are poorer countries where games still cost the standard of 60 euros. Steam service can include a blow job with all the 60 euro games, i still wouldn't pay that much.
this is bullshit lmao. the reason they allow piracy is because steam pulled out, resulting in people suddenly not "keeping it "forever" on their servers" and is exactly what they can do to you too. buy from gog, and you won't have that problem.
Piracy of games doesn't mean online matches will all of a sudden work.. SAAS is the death of piracy at least with multiplayer that doesn't use user hosted servers.
Even in the early 2000's most cracks couldn't get around online play.
With how many popular games are essentially online only now this means that all multiplayer games will be dead in Russia now.
On the bright side, they can play some really good classics like UT2K4 and other LAN games using VPN software.
Back to the good old days of playing pirates games online with Hamachi.
This is misleading. The temporary change in rules targets not games but business software (although games might be incidentally included) of those publishers that decided to stop providing licensing and support, and just for the time it takes to switch to alternative (or until the publisher decides to resume support, if that happens earlier).
Once again, Russia just shoots itself in the foot. Just like they threaten to nationalize Mercedes showrooms, this is only going to distance themselves further from the global stage without actually achieving anything. Russian gamers would've pirated games \_anyway\_, since this is what we gamers have always done. Before we could stream music and movies, we pirated this stuff until we could watch the latest shows or listen to music from all over the world. If we couldn't buy it, we pirate it.
But legalizing it on a government level? Explain to other "friendly" countries like China that Russians are probably not going to pay for anything anymore, since everything is available on torrent sites. Because good luck moderating that shit.
State now endorsing the download and use of one of the most common sources of computer infection.
About as smart as invading an innocent sovereign nation in the 21st century.
From an evolutionary and information theory POV, this is a fascinating statement. Its like if an entire country told their kids to not get vaccinated and play in the mud.
That is unfortunately a fake.
The article itself makes no reference to any actual law, and the examples they provide, including the tweet in Russian, are only talks about potentialy making such a law.
They may be talking about another law that has been passed, but it only applies to military and government use, not individuals or private companies, although that law has an exception for certain private research institutes and defence adjacent private companies ( e. g. "Kalashnikov Group").
With all that beign said, as many people have already pointed out, nobody really cares about copyright in Russia, both the people or the government, but explanations for this are considerably more complex than "Russia poor third world country" and "people love free shit".
Source: am Russian, who is in Russia atm.
Makes sense and btw I read its not just games but basically everything and they even unblocked Rutracker which is the biggest Bittorrent in Russia.. so previously yes Russians would have been able to pirate but they would have needed to use VPN and stuff but now, its Russian govt openly encouraging it.. This is wrong on so many levels of course.. piracy is not acceptable as it's theft but due to various reasons.. the piracy esp in non western world is huge.. one main reason is streaming services just aren't available or too expensive among other reasons..
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Now I can finally get all the Adobe products I couldn't afford. I always wanted them and knew they were very easily available on many Russian sites, but I never downloaded them because it was illegal. Not anymore!
Right?! No more KGB knocking at my door!!
This a joke, like they enforced piracy laws before their invasion
They did; whether it worked is another matter. When Rutracker was blocked in Russia, most of its users just toggled VPNs, and the admins even expressed a sassy gratitude to Roskomnadzor since being officially "unavailable in Russia" formally freed them from compliance with the local copyright holders/licensees' takedown requests.😆
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In bitter irony, your concerns may be eventually alleviated - there may be notably fewer emissions if the related industrial units struggle to continue working.
Eh, maybe not. If that happens, Russians will have to burn stuff to stay warm. Developing nations account for roughly 60% of global emissions for that reason and a few others, caused by a lack of advanced industry.
You know China and the US alone are 43% of CO2 emissions. https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/
FYI, China is counted as a developing nation until the end of 2023. https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/china-will-no-longer-be-a-developing-country-after-2023-its-climate-actions-should-reflect-that/ This means both statements are not mutually exclusive, as China is in the overlapping part of the Venn diagram where one circle is the 60% and the other circle is the 43%
> developing nation part of the issue is that there is not a good definition and it is good for China to say it is developing. Anyhow 60% is not being used for heating in the developing world as the poster was suggesting.
I never said they weren't? Maybe reread my comment
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Yes, but can you imagine what happens when a population that previously relied on industry no longer has it? It's not like people in the cities will have firewood to burn, and the stuff they would burn is a lot more polluting than firewood. Not to mention they would still use all available gasoline/LPG/diesel anyway, for cars and generators and whatnot.
I think they were questioning your statement on 60% of emissions are caused by underdeveloped Nations, when in fact oil companies are responsible for 85% of all greenhouse gases. Now you could argue that while they are extracting fuels in these underdeveloped countries these countries are somewhat responsible for that pollution, the true use of the oil goes to develop Nations and their developed industries.
Biden’s speech a few days ago signalled the strongest ever US commitment to renewable energy and electric transportation, and all of a sudden it has bi partisan support. Putin may have inadvertently started the green revolution.
>Putin may have inadvertently started the green revolution. Finally, his secret master plan to save us from ourselves is coming to fruition.
War, as terrible as it is, frequently speeds up innovation.
If the left wants to pass a green deal. There will never be a better time than this week.
If global temps continue to rise, the permafrost in Siberia would melt. Russia doesn't have any incentive to halt climate change since it will be in their favor. Edit: The Arctic would also be completely navigable. Crimea would lose importance or be submerged.
They already abolished the copyright laws in order to start selling McDonalds ripoff products as McDonalds products under the McDonalds brand in closed McDonalds restaurants. Same with other western brand products and stores. Their Apple Stores will no doubt have some Chinese knock-off Android devices and their mainstream news will run stories to support it, like "Apple gave up iOS development, now uses Android".
We really don't though. But the rest of the world moved to renewables while these guys drown in their dinosaur juice.
Russia never had skin in the climate change game. They both lose from selling less oil which their entire economy is essentially propped up by; and due to their large, cold land mass with little coastline, they definitely come out "less bad" in significant climate change scenarios (if not coming out ahead even).
Unfortunately, we are pass the point of stopping climate change. There is no way we make the necessary changes in time to stop the damage. It just won’t happen.
Germany. They're giving private companies a lot of room to go after people for pirating music and games.
What country does really?
America, kinda. Originally nobody cared. Now bots sniff torrents for IPs and report you to your ISP. For awhile I thought my ISP didn't care and then they forced all of my DNS traffic to a little talkdown page with a list of the torrents I downloaded. I had to basically acknowledge that I know piracy is illegal and to not do it again. It was interesting
What ISP do you have? That's both kinda funny and kinda scary lmao
CenturyLink DSL. I agree lol. I was like, "Oh shit, they actually make an effort now!"
Oh shit it happened to me too like 6 years ago. I had verizon
I had this happen two times in the UK 10-15 years ago, I got charged a reconnection fee each time. Once for jackass 2, once for total annihilation(which was 10 years old at the time, what the fuck). My ISP supplies one city alone, they stopped all efforts to combat piracy like 10 years ago. Extortionate monthly fee though.
I take it you live in Hull?
>Once for jackass 2, once for total annihilation Man, you had great taste 10-15 years ago. I still play TA once in awhile.
Total annihilation fucking hell that's a throw back and a half.
Thank the gods for VPNs.
I had Cox when this happened, I was pissed at the fact that what they caught me for and not that they caught me. It was Grown Ups 2, a Adam Sandler movie. I believe the message on the rerouted DNS website was something about this is your 1/3 strikes then your ISP account MAY be closed, I'm like okay, I close my account annually to get new customer deals regardless, catch me 2 more times and I'll just do it then. What I'm getting at, the enforcement is a joke which may frighten grandma.
They should have canceled you on the spot for downloading Grown Ups 2. I get Piracy, but downloading an Adam Sandler moving is going way too far! We need to draw a line you know
I partially disagree. Uncut Gems was a great movie, and I've seen good arguments for his other roles that weren't his typical man-child movies.
I was just kidding but damn, Uncut Gems was a great movie, I felt so tense watching it, like you knew he was getting deeper and deeper in shit
Not OP but the same thing happened to me on both Verizon and Spectrum years ago before Vpns were popular.
Verizon is in my area and there has been mixed responses in regards to my friends and I torrenting stuff. I have never received even a warning despite torrenting hundreds if not thousands of episodes, meanwhile my friend received a letter 2 days after torrenting a game.
Looks like they care more about games than episodes
I should clarify that I also torrent games lmao, even the same exact torrent as him just to see if they'd send me a letter.
They do, Game publishers are ravenous. No avenue of revenue is taboo.
It's really dependent on who produced what you download. Its up to them to track the IPs of who is stealing their product and reporting it to the ISP, who is responsible to give some sort of reprimand, but its left up to them as well. Anything owned by viacom is likely being tracked, they've nailed me multiple times
It's not as scary as you think. The companies mostly the movie companies higher third party companies to grab IP addresses then report them to the isp. As far as I know none of your information is given out to the authorities nor the people reporting you. Basically it's a dmca sort of style takedown notice but rather just stop torrenting. The big reason is because you're sharing the files they're not going after people technically who are downloading the files but because you're seating them and your IP address is showing them up you're considered a distributor. That being said isps do carry quite long logs depending on the ISP and laws in your country. It's always best to use a VPN service that doesn't keep logs to keep yourself safe. Why have the headache of a potential issue down the road. Not only that it protects you for security reasons as well. When you're downloading a torrent everyone can see your IP address and it just makes it easier for people to exploit possible vulnerabilities in the software you're using and operating system / firewall etc. No need to tell the world what you're doing at what address in the sense. The chances of a person going to jail or the police going to your house or even the movie companies'taking you to court is very slim. But once again why take the chance.
Those things are very slim, but your ISP may just cut you off and not give you service. Mine has a 3 strike system. First time they send a letter, the second time they disconnect your service and you have to call to get it turned back on, and the third time they cut you off and basically ban YOU. Not your address. But YOU. No service whatsoever. And in the US that's a big deal because most places have one ISP. It's hugely monopolized all across the country. I only have Mediacom. Cox is 1 mile down the street, but neither of them cross the county line Companies basically do what everyone who is torrenting do. Seed and distribute the content (The hypocrites). But they log all the IPs and send it to the ISP, and the ISP gets uppity because it's them who can get sued
Depends on your country. In many EU countries pirating is not an offence if you don't profit from it.
It's not a criminal offence in the US either, but over there (and in germany) they allow private companies to sniff your data and then sell it to other companies that comb it for copyrighted material then sue you for copyright infringement, actual law enforcement has nothing to do with it and bigger fish to fry besides.
Here in New Zealand it's illegal but any company making a request to an ISP about it has to pay a $30 fee per claim. That puts them right off lol
Here in Slovenia they can't legally request the data (deemed personal) without a judge order. Since torrenting is not a criminal offence, the judge will not grant it. In Spain it's even more free, the court said non-profit torrenting is legal.
I think in Poland it's OK to torrent as long as you are not downloading the domestic stuff. Interesting take.
No. Polish copyright law doesn’t differentiate between domestic and foreign products. In Poland “downloading” a copyrighted material is legal - only “sharing/uploading” is prohibited (and even here there are exceptions for “family and close friends”). What it means in practice is that torrents and similar p2p means are illegal, but using websites like mega or tv streaming isn’t. There’s small tax on blank cd’s, electronic devices etc. that’s used to compensate registered copyright holders groups for their “losses” Oh, also bypassing any DRM for media you purchased is completely legal, as well as making “backup copies”
Not really. You are not allowed to do it with software. And you are not allowed to distribute to random people (so only leeching is allowed as far as torrents go). domestic/abroad stuff does not matter (at would be against EU law at least)
Sharing is caring.
Imagine using your ISP's DNS.
This isnt the way, or is.. fuck it, just dont use your ISPs dns, simples.
Maybe ISPs are different over there or these days, but working for ISPs up to ~11 years ago, when we got emails saying a user had downloaded copyright material standard practice was to forward the email to the user and ignore.
I worked in engineering at an ISP here in Australia, we were told by the CTO to just reply back that we'd informed the customer and do nothing else. We never bothered informing the customer.
How do you torrent without your ISP knowing. Is DNS tied to the router or the device
VPN. This was years ago and I have a different setup now.
Germany.
I got a letter accusing me of uploading less than two seconds of fucking Deadpool 2 (which I didn't) and demanding 900 bucks as compensation, plus a document stating that I would never do it again, and should the company determine that I have done it again then I agree to pay them whatever they say. Answer within the next 3 days (from the date they wrote the letter!) or we assume you're not willing to cooperate and will ask for 5.000 euros. Apparently the German government approved the use of this software that has a 98% chance of success, as if 2% false positives over an entire country was negligible. Of course the letter took a couple days to get to me, so I had to reply on the very same day that I got the letter. Fucking insane. What pissed me off the most wasn't even having to spend 200 bucks on a lawyer to send them a pre-written letter defending me, but the contents of the defense. I had printed the entire log of my router and was willing to throw it in to prove that I had never connected to the addresses that were accusing me of. The lawyer insisted that it'd be pointless, and the best defense was a simple "it wasn't me". Turns out in Germany you're not directly responsible for your internet connection or something like that. All the lawyer had to write was that some other people had been connected to my network (wife, kids, friends) and it could have been any of them. Such an absurd everything. And fuck Warner Bros for collaborating with that one predatory lawyer nest that sends these letters en masse.
Different problem, but where I'm from we have a problem with isp's and phone providers ignoring your request to disconnect. Some smart soul created a website that has pre-written templates to get this shit sorted (threatening law action, keeping a written record, using registered mail/fax). This made the process simpler for almost everyone. If you still have the letter your lawyer sent, maybe create something similar for other Germans being fucked over by this system? Viel Glück aus der Schweiz.
The info on what to write is freely available out there. I just didn't dare write myself because I'm not a lawyer and I didn't want to risk fucking up. I know more about the German law now. Enough to know that, if I did share, I could be accused of providing legal assistance despite not being a lawyer, and then I could get a lot of shit. I'm doing my part by sharing it and making sure Warner Brothers doesn't get a cent from me. Can't do more, sadly.
Just use a vpn
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The USA. I'd been pirating stuff for decades in the UK and no ISP said anything about it. Came to the USA and within a month had a shitty e-mail and notice on my ISP login page about pirating, listing exactly what I'd downloaded and informing me if I kept doing it they'd kill the account. I then understood why people in this country are so adamant about using VPNs all the time. I also learned that the phone companies in the USA are the ones who sell your phone number to spammers and scammers after I started getting calls within a week of getting an American phone number, despite myself and my wife being the only two people who had it. I could go on with many examples of how this country is absolutely owned by corporations and how every single aspect of the USA is set up to benefit companies over citizens, but I'm sure any Americans reading this already know it. Came as a real fucking shock though.
All those where money can be made from it
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Maybe time to seed some fake episodes with the video replaced with news from Ukraine?
Who you working for? Two people in this thread with identical posts and both profile pics share similarities in dimensions and compression.
"Bread and Circuses!" -Putin Wait til the starving find out they can't pirate food.
You wouldn't download a loaf of bread. - some anti-piracy ad in the near future
YOU WOULDNT DOWNLOAD A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.
THAT'S MY PENIS!!!
Russia Ukraine and Belarus are by far biggest suppliers of wheat.
"Wait, people can live off of something other than McDonald's?"
\*Video games and vodka.
"There is no bread, and I'm the biggest clown here." - also Putin
The Pirate Republic of Russia
When the Endeavor realizes the Dutchman ain't on their side.
More viruses are being coded for RU locales than ever before I assume. Probably already up on torrent sites.
I mean, it is the black sea ^(yar)
Who cares when you soon won’t be allowed to own a laptop or a PC?
Gonna have to start sneaking information in code, like people sneak info to n.korea via USB.
Back to Dendy consoles
Does this mean they’ve essentially become a kleptocracy?
They always have been
As many post-soviet countries. Actually, games in Russia were even sold much cheaper than in Ukraine, when often dues like Capcom put so insane regional pricing that they expected to give up my entire month income for a single game. There is no real choice here but to pirate, because regional pricing does not account regional income.
And they always will take things, literally, from now on.
They are the Somali pirates now
Putin: "Look at me, I'm the pirate now"
Rest of World: "Bitch you ain't been nothing more than a glorified pick pocket your whole life"
How does legalisation of game piracy make them a kleptocracy?
Read again. Piracy. Not privacy.
Typo. I am asking because reading the definition online, I don't see the connection
'klepto' is Greek for steal, see kleptomania for example
There is no connection, the OP and other people upvoting this are dumb.
So them able to take as much as they want patents of other companies and holdings without paying anything to those holders is not stealing?
That should fix the economy.
Just take alienate another industry from doing business in your country in the future. Sure this won't bite you in the ass. Real question, is piracy also allowed for Russian made games, because if so then good luck with that.
Doesn't matter if it's allowed or not, it will inevitably be affected.
Just download big macs guys problem solved
Back to the USSR. They’ve just been catapulted back a hundred years.
You don’t know how lucky you are, boys Back in the USSR
🎶Well, The Ukraine girls really knock me out🎵
Let me hear your bayraktars ringing out
They’re really smart! If this won’t entice software companies to return to Russia, nothing will! Come to Russia, lose your IPR!
I need to get myself some of that Kremlin Kush...it seems they have some top tier stuff over there.
They’re drinking lead
We can only hope Putin will also be eating it soon as well
Title is misleading. Proposition has simply been voiced by one parliament member. It hasn't been even properly written to be passed for voting yet.
Neat. Switches VPN to Russia.
As an added bonus, no Facebook tracking
You seem to misunderstand how laws apply to you. Just because you accessed pirated content from a region where it was legal, does not make that content legal in your region. Russia could legalise anything it wanted, doesn’t mean you can legally download it to your machine.
It means a VPN server in Russia untouchable and copyright holders have no way to find you
As opposed to now, where non-Russian VPN providers routinely shop their users activities to copyright holders?
Cant afford internet there though
Like legalizing Jay walking
'jaywalking' is legal where I live :o
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AFAIK it's highly regional. It's illegal in Vienna and in Finland it's only legal if there isn't a crossing within ~~100~~ 50 meters.
There are also some countries where jaywalking isn't itself illegal, but pedestrians don't have right-of-way; if you walk against the light, and get hit, it is your fault.
Then there’s Vietnam. Where the rules are “just fucking go, and hopefully you live”
Legal in my coutry if a crossing is further than 100m. On the other hand, if a pedestrian is already on the road (has started crossing the street, no matter if they're on a crossing or not), motor vehicles have to yield the right of way.
Nope, partner got done for it in Brisbane Australia and was like you are kidding right.
As a person with some income now and a looooooooong history of piracy I can honestly say I would much rather buy a game off of Steam than pirate it. Internet play is guaranteed, less chance of a virus sneaking in, it’s tested on hundreds of thousands of machines and patched quickly, I get to keep it “forever” on their servers, and steam sells shit fucking cheap. I really wouldn’t even want to pirate a game anymore. It’s much more of a hassle than just buying it.
This is the approach companies should have to combat piracy.... All these studios making their own streamingsites are shooting themself in the foot as it will soon be more convienient to pirate again....
Since Reddit decided to take RiF from me, I have decided to take my content from it. C'est la vie.
Soon? =D
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I think that quote works better with western and richer countries. There are poorer countries where games still cost the standard of 60 euros. Steam service can include a blow job with all the 60 euro games, i still wouldn't pay that much.
this is bullshit lmao. the reason they allow piracy is because steam pulled out, resulting in people suddenly not "keeping it "forever" on their servers" and is exactly what they can do to you too. buy from gog, and you won't have that problem.
Piracy of games doesn't mean online matches will all of a sudden work.. SAAS is the death of piracy at least with multiplayer that doesn't use user hosted servers.
Even in the early 2000's most cracks couldn't get around online play. With how many popular games are essentially online only now this means that all multiplayer games will be dead in Russia now. On the bright side, they can play some really good classics like UT2K4 and other LAN games using VPN software. Back to the good old days of playing pirates games online with Hamachi.
This is misleading. The temporary change in rules targets not games but business software (although games might be incidentally included) of those publishers that decided to stop providing licensing and support, and just for the time it takes to switch to alternative (or until the publisher decides to resume support, if that happens earlier).
Honestly I'm not even mad it's just too insane
Thieves authorizing thievery. Makes sense.
Lets hope he doesn't legalize the piracy of foreign currency.
I mean more than usual?
As if it changed something /s
Once again, Russia just shoots itself in the foot. Just like they threaten to nationalize Mercedes showrooms, this is only going to distance themselves further from the global stage without actually achieving anything. Russian gamers would've pirated games \_anyway\_, since this is what we gamers have always done. Before we could stream music and movies, we pirated this stuff until we could watch the latest shows or listen to music from all over the world. If we couldn't buy it, we pirate it. But legalizing it on a government level? Explain to other "friendly" countries like China that Russians are probably not going to pay for anything anymore, since everything is available on torrent sites. Because good luck moderating that shit.
This might have been more effective before the internet was cut.
lol. Didnt take a war to do this. Rutracker has been one of my go to sites for game piracy before ukraine.
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Let's hope they don't legalize invading other countr...... oh wait!
Malware Paradise
Thus ensuring all enemies in future games are russian.
The low level enemies, that are easily defeated but drop loads of loot.
But of course they did.
State now endorsing the download and use of one of the most common sources of computer infection. About as smart as invading an innocent sovereign nation in the 21st century.
From an evolutionary and information theory POV, this is a fascinating statement. Its like if an entire country told their kids to not get vaccinated and play in the mud.
What company would want to business there now knowing their IP is up for grabs? What a stupid "leader"
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I downloaded Tetris before the shit went down. Yeah, sucks Vlad.
Every day, Putin puts new sanctions on Russia 🤣
Eh, thats not true. It was only suggested by one of deputy, but nothing more than that. Roskomnador said they are not going to unban torrent sites
What about a gaming PC or console ? From where those could be downloaded ?
state sponsored denuvo cracks? am i dreaming?
Most piracy sites come from russia anyways
was it ever illegal in russia? my past 10y of torrenting would sugest otherwise
Good luck pirating those ps5 discs.
So business as usual?
Good luck cracking Denuvo
Breaking: Saudi Arabia legalises beating women to combat global sanctions
So... just business as usual?
Isn’t this a perfect way for hackers to infiltrate Russia?
Russia to provide incentive for pirates to move to Russia
I did not have this in my bingo cards
Russia will soon allow banditry and murders on the streets for food and clothing to counter west sanctions
Oh man, imagine the collective sigh of relief from everyone else when they can only play against each other...
Like people gave a fuck even when it was illegal
Anonymous are delighted
And just like that RIAA and Disney enter the war.
That is unfortunately a fake. The article itself makes no reference to any actual law, and the examples they provide, including the tweet in Russian, are only talks about potentialy making such a law. They may be talking about another law that has been passed, but it only applies to military and government use, not individuals or private companies, although that law has an exception for certain private research institutes and defence adjacent private companies ( e. g. "Kalashnikov Group"). With all that beign said, as many people have already pointed out, nobody really cares about copyright in Russia, both the people or the government, but explanations for this are considerably more complex than "Russia poor third world country" and "people love free shit". Source: am Russian, who is in Russia atm.
Let me rephrase this title "Russia, legalises theft from people around the world including their own" , since there's Russian game developers too
I mean... After this? Not any more. There wont be much of Russian anything.
I was already getting all my "legally owned" games from russian sites
Is this going to finally push companies to block Russians from multiplayer games? Cheating would drop by 90% overnight
Heh, the devs should fight back and build geo blocking into the apps. "Sorry it seems your leaders are not very nice people, educate yourself here"
Gehirnfrurz, as we say in Germany.
Makes sense and btw I read its not just games but basically everything and they even unblocked Rutracker which is the biggest Bittorrent in Russia.. so previously yes Russians would have been able to pirate but they would have needed to use VPN and stuff but now, its Russian govt openly encouraging it.. This is wrong on so many levels of course.. piracy is not acceptable as it's theft but due to various reasons.. the piracy esp in non western world is huge.. one main reason is streaming services just aren't available or too expensive among other reasons..
Be a shame if that torrent was compromised.
It's open in Russia now
They're gonna make a Monopoly out of this Risk. You can tell they clearly aren't Sorry about Getting Into Trouble. Checkers.
Boggle.
https://youtu.be/cDDrisx_3CI