• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Wait! Those torrent clients are written with programming languages! We should sue the people who made the programming languages for encouraging piracy!

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      5 months ago

      And pirates are using hardware to commit their dirty deeds!

      Maybe this is how technological society crumbles, one lawsuit at a time.

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        5 months ago

        That’s funny that you mention hardware, cause in Germany you pay a set fee for each device (13.19€ for a computer, 6.25€ for a phone) on purchase since it could be used to create copies of media.

        I’m just getting my money’s worth, officer.

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          5 months ago

          In Denmark it is lawful copies of a media. Problem is that almost all media is copyright protected and it is illegal to circumvent that. So essentially it is a free tax for the organization that represents the artists without any checks and balances to make sure those money actually get distributed to the artists afterwards.