• Art35ian@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    a) discussions aren’t a crime.

    b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters?

    c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.

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      b and c) Go after the ISPs who don’t disconnect the pirating users and sue them instead. Go after the deep pockets.

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        10 months ago

        They did that too. Most ISP’S outside of Comcast shrugged as well. The studios lost this fight almost 2 decades ago.

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      Yes they will write stern, spooky letters to the tone of “give us money or get sued”. Then they take the money they get, and sue no one because they have no evidence.

      It’s basically a 419 scam, but with lawyers