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I think that critique of this case is not about piracy in itself but how these companies are treated by courts vs. how individuals are treated.

So can we officially download pirated content to learn stuff now?

How often does a link get posted here of content that is behind a paywall? If you bypass it to read it, didny't you just learn via illegal content? I'm not sure where the "official" comes in, but it's clearly widely accepted.

If you watch a YouTube video to learn something and it's later taken down for using copyrighted images, you learned from illegal content.


Sure, and I feel zero moral qualms about me or anyone else doing it. The vast majority of the shit flows flows from the other direction towards individuals and consumers when it comes to content delivery companies and worse still, software companies. Let's address that before wringing our hands about individual acts of "piracy", even at scale.

I could, right now in just a few minutes, go download a perfectly functional pirated copy of nearly any Adobe program, nearly any Microsoft program and a whole range of books and movies, yet I see zero real financial troubles affecting any of the companies behind these. All the contrary in fact.


> Perhaps this person lived in a fantastic futuristic city before. But for a lot people, getting a cab was not a good experience. Uber singlehanded changed that.

I've been in taxi just about three times in my life and zero in Uber. Usually just take bus/tram/train, walk or bike. Car for utility in the country. I think I do not live in fantastic futuristic city (it is in eastern Europe) but at least it is not dystopia.


How is that peak elitism? Are you active in rural area?

As someone who takes care bit of agricultural area I would prefer pack of wolves to hunters that are supposed to manage deer population.


Yes I am. And therefore I know that…

> * prefer pack of wolves to hunters*

…no single ruralite ever said that.


> …no single ruralite ever said that.

Maybe you are in livestock farming but many in my situation do. My point is that it is not city vs countryside.


I’m a “ruralite“ and I would certainly prefer wolves over human hunters in certain conditions. I would also advocate for expanding these conditions to wherever possible in Europe.

Kindly stop presuming that you can speak for other people you haven’t actually asked for their opinion.


Do you happen to own TSLA?

I happen to know more about the software than any journalist it appears

I find it bit disappointing that you even need to restate this. People here should know better.

100% sure that buggy phones killed more people than Teslas.

Lmao how

Battery fires, battery drain leaving you stranded somewhere, all sort of GPS map issues sending people off cliff or onto railway, malware, dependent medical equipment, etc.

Is it really natural gas powered? That's shame.

Also Tailwind. Obese HTML just to avoid css.

Taking current state of Reddit, with all the rage-bait and other sorts of creative writing, I wonder how much of that is legit content.

I'm afraid that thanks to this escalation hiring will be even more IRL-connection based.

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