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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 381 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

lol, copying isn’t theft. You already had to download a copy just to view it. That’s how websites work.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 155 points 8 months ago

Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
If you copy something you are not entitled to because of copyright, it's copyright infringement.
With theft the originally owner loses what is stolen, with copyright infringement the owner only loses the license fee for 1 copy.

Not the same thing, and calling it theft is purely a propaganda term invented by the media industry.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 74 points 8 months ago

It should also be noted that copyright laws usually have all sorts of exceptions for fair use such as satire, education, etc. Typically, keeping and even using a copy without permission is legally allowed under certain circumstances.

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Just a word of caution. Even if you have a valid fair use claim they have to be adjudicated and the legal costs can get pricey. Worse if you’re found liable.

Check out Lawful Masses on YouTube for plenty of examples of copyright trolls using this as a bludgeon.

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[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Tools" -> "Page info" -> "Media" menu on Firefox - you can even see and save the images that the browser already downloaded.

[-] 100@fedia.io 22 points 8 months ago

or save page to download all loaded image assets from a page into a nice folder

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[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 267 points 8 months ago

ah, yes, the right click menu

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 120 points 8 months ago

Funny because Inspect offers all the stealing tools

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago

This is why Apple pushed so hard for 1-button mice

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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 251 points 8 months ago
[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 39 points 8 months ago
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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 118 points 8 months ago

you focus on that popup and ignore all the crank shit that is on this page

yes a piece of granite (?) with $60 pricetag put on my amplifier COMPLETELY changes how my vinyls sound like

statements dreamed of by the utterly deranged

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 58 points 8 months ago

Right click?? Why did we ever need a second or third or seventeenth button anyway?

They have played us for absolute fools

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[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

A piece of granite placed on the turntable would change how his records sound, but not necessarily in a good way.

Depending on the artist of course.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

Does it only work for rock albums?

I'll see myself out.

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[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 111 points 8 months ago

All this does is infuriate actual users trying to use your site. Content thieves will just download it via a script or curl and you won't be able to do anything about it.

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[-] dan@upvote.au 110 points 8 months ago

I always found these anti-right-click scripts funny since they usually don't block Ctrl+S to save the page, Ctrl+U to view source, or Ctrl+P to print (or these days, F12 to open the browser dev tools)

[-] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 56 points 8 months ago

My personal favorite is Ctrl+Shift+C which brings up Dev tools in selection mode, so you can click on the picture or whatever and be taken straight to its HTML code.

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[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago

Shift + right-click will override all this BS in Firefox.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 8 months ago

JavaScript is no match for wget -r.

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[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 23 points 8 months ago

I just turn off JavaScript and then right click works again.

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[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 82 points 8 months ago

There is a 100% chance this warning correlates with the actual content on this site being hot garbage

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 79 points 8 months ago

Audiophile equipment is just magic crystal bullshit for pseudointellectuals.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago

To an extent yes but it's essentially just extreme deminishing returns

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 30 points 8 months ago

there are both categories.
Some things are marginally better and incredibly expensive.
Other things, such as garden hose power snakes and these "audiophile crystals" are just pure scam.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 69 points 8 months ago

He should just ask for a donation. His work isn't that valuable

[-] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 51 points 8 months ago

Considering they think putting rocks on top of your playing equipment changes the sound, their work has negative value.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 29 points 8 months ago

Technically, a weight on top of AV equipment's cases will change the resonant properties of the chassis but that does not produce audible effects unless it's on the speaker cone. The author considers this and dismisses the possibility because “rocks not heavy enough”.

Also, a sufficiently large rock will affect the performance of any Hi-Fi equipment.

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[-] Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago

In my whole life I never bought digital audio or video content on vinyl, VHS, CD, DVD, Blueray. Never ever. It sounds as weird to me like paying for air to breath.

But one day I visited a live concert of a small band which I loved as a teenager. After the show I met with their drummer, gave him €200 cash and said "You know, when I was young you were cool about kids copying your music without paying. You told us if we like you music we can enjoy it. And if we can afford it, we can pay you. Back then I couldn't. Today I can."

And so I paid them five times as much as I saved back then by copying their music.

[-] maculata@aussie.zone 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You are a very good person.

This is utterly irrelevant to people copying multi-million sales dickshits like Metallica.

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[-] Betch@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Don't get scammed with audiophile rocks. I've done my research and found out that audiophile rock salt does the exact same thing and it is MUCH cheaper! Feel free to copy this and spread the word!

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 40 points 8 months ago

Are you sure it isn’t the kitty sticker?

[-] Betch@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

..... Jesus fucking christ. My research is invalid. I'm going to have to start all over again. 🤬

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[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 51 points 8 months ago

Probably the source of their problem:

Copyright Infringement – Outing – dasklang.com, isecope.com, headgamesonline.com and technocratsblog.com

As I See It, News, comments & Information

Apr 16, 2019

Recently I have discovered my review work (1) and show reports taken and reproduced without my permission by four websites, one of whom took the material down when asked – they should not have reproduced it in the first place. When approached they said ‘sure that is how the net works, I am helping you by doing this’. No you are not, you are only helping yourself dasklang.com (2), creating traffic to your site off the back of my work not your own. How would you like it if I reproduced the design of your products ? Then told you my doing so was helping you. You wouldn’t.

I was going to let this go, but why should I? I have struggled personally to try and put some content on my site, battled reviwers burn out and other issues. Content that in many cases I have paid for out of my pocket to write about, not items loaned by manufacturers or distributors, but products I had bought, sometimes simply to write about them. However even if I had not parted with my money, my time and effort is worth something surely? Worthy of respect that I would at the very least be offered a chance to give my permission as to how my work is used, and where. None of these websites asked, they took what wasn’t theirs to use, to put content on their sites.

The websites that still have my material up without permission are isecope.com, headgames online and technocratsblog.com, all three I suspect are linked.

As they are watching this site maybe after being named and shamed they will remove the material. I doubt it, I guess I will have to go after them with DMCA’s and report to their web-hosts.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

That used to be fairly common 10-15 years ago.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 41 points 8 months ago

I was about to give some empathy for the dude but their articles are trash and they would be lucky if we stole them.

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[-] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile, their robots.txt doesn't disallow GPTBot or Google Bard. So apparently they're okay with content being stolen by for-profit companies.

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[-] bloom_of_rakes@lemm.ee 37 points 8 months ago

Now I want to go there and steal everything.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I was going to copy content from the page using Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy in Firefox, but then I realized the content isn't worth copying.

So yes, there are add-ons to easily extract text and bypass this. The text is sent to your computer. It's your computer. You can copy the content.

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[-] garyyo@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

looks like its just setting some events, these two lines should clear the anti-select and the anti-right click respectively if pasted into the debug console:

document.body.onselectstart = undefined
document.oncontextmenu = undefined
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[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago

http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/26/01/2018/audiophile-rocks-down-the-rabbit-hole-once-again/

just in case someone feels like right-clicking. (CTRL+Shift+K opens the console in Firefox, but shht)

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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 22 points 8 months ago

I run NoScript and I can right-click just fine.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

This was more or less standard 20 years ago!

Even disabling the ability to select text and sometimes also dissabling the Ctrl + C shortcut!

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[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Seems like the kind of thing a person does when they understand technology well enough to use it badly but don't recognize that it's ineffective against anyone willing to type "enable right click" into their search engine of choice.

How much do you want to bet that they didn't write the JavaScript for that message and it's just been copied and edited? Probably even right-clicked to do it, the scalawag.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

How much do you want to bet that they didn't write the JavaScript for that message

They definitely didn't-- the page source has it copied from another blog:

/******************************************************************************
*** COPY PROTECTED BY http://chetangole.com/blog/wp-copyprotect/ version 3.1.0 ****
******************************************************************************/
var message="Copying my work, without written permission is theft. You are not helping me, only yourself, and you are a thief. Reproduce my work and I will come after you legally.";
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;

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