reminder that piracy is a moral imperative

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    absolutely terrible. There needs to be some amendment to cut off the ability to tack shit on to bills.

    I'm so tired, I just want to stream mid 2000s space thrillers without losing my right to vote.

    • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This would only apply to the individuals and companies *hosting* the streams. You won't go to prison for watching pirated streams.

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Neat. I need to find a decent private tracker soon. I have netlfix, mooch off my families hulu and prime, and my ISP gave me a year of disney plus and I STILL need to pirate stream so I can find media that would cost 15 bucks to digitally "rent".

        People like to say "oh but the company paid for that thing to be made, they need to make money back".

        Motherfucker, unless the gaffers, writers, best boys, and actors still get a cut, there's no reason to pay for it.

          • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I was on the reddit one at some point. I couldn't download anything worth a damn and the freeseed day had the single choice of the tim and eric million dollar movie which to this day, is the worst piece of shit to ever be called a movie.

      • UnironicWarCriminal [any]
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        4 years ago

        And the streams will not be available to watch if they threaten the hosts with a felony

        • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Hosts of torrent sites have been threatened with felonies for decades. That hasn't stopped them.

        • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Not better for piracy as a whole, but it means you don't need to stop using illegal streams out of fear of prison

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Back in those far off fields of 2018 when I was still a lib I would see people say "we gotta stop them tacking shit on to bills" and the response always was "a lot of those things are good, little bribes to get votes. It's basically the only way anything good ever gets voted through. If every vote was single issue nothing would ever get done."

      I've never bothered to see if that was actually true or not, but if it is it follows that a lot of those little amendments must be bad shit too. And also nothing was getting done anyway, so I don't see why there shouldn't be single issue voting.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        4 years ago

        I mean it's true insofar as it's a natural part of the politicking in any legislating body. If there were some magical, unambiguous constitutional amendment that said bills have to have a narrow, clearly defined scope, stuff would still get passed. There just wouldn't be that incentive to hold onto your vote for a rider that serves the interests of your constituents/your fave lobby/yourself.