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submitted 1 week ago by tkw8@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Tried to support the industry by buying a movie a watch a lot. Well, no more. If I need a pihole just to watch a movie I own, that's ridiculous.

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago

The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams ... It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what ... Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source – we will block it at your cable company. We will block it at your phone company. We will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC ... These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake. - Steve Heckler, senior vice president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc, August 2000

quote from https://web.archive.org/web/20010201204600/http://www.nyfairuse.org/sony.xhtml

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

"Pepperidge Farm Remembers" meme, but with the face of Elrond (Hugo Weaving) from the "i was there 3000 years ago" meme. no text

[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

spoileraskldjfals;jflsad;

[-] rah@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

there is simply too much at stake

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