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  1. Well I can't always afford to purchase media I've been tending to push towards DRM-Free things over streaming services or anything close to that.

    With how AI, Data Collection and Constant Subscriptions I wanna find new DRM-Free services into the near future. I've got most of my Music Covered with a mix of Bandcamp and iTunes. What other DRM-Free services do you all suggest for things like Movies and Shows?

    #DRMFree #Music #Movies #Shows #Series #Pirating

  2. @globalc Lesson: if you're ever accused of #pirating media, say you accidentally got it from a GenAI tool.

  3. @globalc Lesson: if you're ever accused of #pirating media, say you accidentally got it from a GenAI tool.

  4. CW: uspol

    (01 Dec) OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

    OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

    s.faithcollapsing.com/165n9

    #ai #chatgpt #copyright-infringement #online-piracy #openai #pirating-books #policy #training-data

  5. CW: uspol

    (01 Dec) OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

    OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

    s.faithcollapsing.com/165n9

    #ai #chatgpt #copyright-infringement #online-piracy #openai #pirating-books #policy #training-data

  6. #Facebook once again caught #pirating. This time adult movies.

    #Copyright Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Pirating Adult Films for AI Training - TorrentFreak (Ernesto Van der Sar) torrentfreak.com/copyright-law

  7. #Judge Rules Training #AI on Authors' #Books Is Legal But #Pirating Them Is Not
    A judge rules that #Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal #fairuse, but that stealing the books in the first place is #illegal.
    \404media.co/judge-rules-traini

  8. #Judge Rules Training #AI on Authors' #Books Is Legal But #Pirating Them Is Not
    A judge rules that #Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal #fairuse, but that stealing the books in the first place is #illegal.
    \404media.co/judge-rules-traini

  9. I’m really fed up with #Netflix. The #Kodi plugin stopped working AGAIN, and there is only ONE guy thanklessly developing it. Or they WERE developing it, because bloody Netflix constantly are changing things making it impossible to keep up. I just should stop paying them and go back to #pirating. 😤

  10. 🚀 "Save the planet by #pirating #macOS," they said. Turns out, running forbidden fruit on your clunky PC is the latest eco-friendly #trend 🌍. Because nothing says "sustainability" like making your hardware suffer through the existential crisis of pretending to be a Mac 🤓💻.
    opengears.medium.com/hackintos #SaveThePlanet #EcoFriendly #ClunkyPC #Sustainability #HackerNews #ngated

  11. 🚀 "Save the planet by #pirating #macOS," they said. Turns out, running forbidden fruit on your clunky PC is the latest eco-friendly #trend 🌍. Because nothing says "sustainability" like making your hardware suffer through the existential crisis of pretending to be a Mac 🤓💻.
    opengears.medium.com/hackintos #SaveThePlanet #EcoFriendly #ClunkyPC #Sustainability #HackerNews #ngated

  12. Pirate: *pirates something*

    User: Cool! I'd never had the intention to pay exorbitant prices for that.

    Pirate: *shoves ads, account registration with credits, a cryptominer, and an indian tech-support scam*

    User: Hello, FBI?

    #Pirates #Pirating #SoftwarePiracy #Piracy #MoviePiracy #StreamingPiracy #SteamPiracy #GamePiracy #VideogamePiracy #Software #SoftwarePirate

  13. Pirate: *pirates something*

    User: Cool! I'd never had the intention to pay exorbitant prices for that.

    Pirate: *shoves ads, account registration with credits, a cryptominer, and an indian tech-support scam*

    User: Hello, FBI?

    #Pirates #Pirating #SoftwarePiracy #Piracy #MoviePiracy #StreamingPiracy #SteamPiracy #GamePiracy #VideogamePiracy #Software #SoftwarePirate

  14. MakeUseOf: You Don’t Need to Pirate Software: Here’s How I Find Affordable Alternatives. “Software can be expensive, but pirating it is risky and unnecessary. The good news? You don’t have to choose between breaking the bank or the law. These are the tips and tricks I use to find affordable, legal alternatives.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/03/you-dont-need-to-pirate-software-heres-how-i-find-affordable-alternatives-makeuseof/

  15. MakeUseOf: You Don’t Need to Pirate Software: Here’s How I Find Affordable Alternatives. “Software can be expensive, but pirating it is risky and unnecessary. The good news? You don’t have to choose between breaking the bank or the law. These are the tips and tricks I use to find affordable, legal alternatives.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/03/you-dont-need-to-pirate-software-heres-how-i-find-affordable-alternatives-makeuseof/

  16. Everyone is posting their wrapped so thought I would post mine

    And before you ask, yes my computer does seem to be infected with a virus, how did you know?

    #Meme #Limewire #Wrapped #SpotifyWrapped #Torrenting #Pirating

  17. Everyone is posting their wrapped so thought I would post mine

    And before you ask, yes my computer does seem to be infected with a virus, how did you know?

    #Meme #Limewire #Wrapped #SpotifyWrapped #Torrenting #Pirating

  18. CW: Cost at $78. Price at $80,000

    Unlike many other drugs that treat viruses, Sovaldi does not suppress hepatitis C, a virus that kills roughly 250,000 people around the world each year. It cures it.

    “Normally you have a virus, and your body fights it off or your body fights it to a standstill and you just have it forever, basically, and hope it remains dormant more or less,” Laufer said. “The holy grail for every virologist is to find a way to drain the viral reservoir, and Sovaldi does this. You take one pill of Sovaldi a day for 12 weeks and then you don’t have hepatitis C anymore.”

    The problem is that those pills are under patent, and they cost $1,000 per pill.

    “Literally, if you have $84,000 then hepatitis C is not your problem anymore,” Laufer said. “But given that there are other methodologies for managing hepatitis C that are not curing it and that are cheaper, insurance typically will not cover [Sovaldi]. And so we’ve got this incredible technology and it’s sitting on the shelf except for people who are ridiculously wealthy.”

    So Four Thieves Vinegar Collective set out to teach people how to make their own version of Sovaldi. Chemists at the collective thought the DIY version would cost about $300 for the entire course of medication, or about $3.57 per pill. But they were wrong.

    “It’s actually just a little under $70 (83 cents per pill), which just kind of blew my mind when they finally showed me the results,” Laufer said. “I was like, can we do the math here again?”

    The above lines were written for paid subscribers and are excerpt from #404Media 404media.co/right-to-repair-fo @law

    #pharma #pharmacy #pharmaceutics #Hepatitis #HepatitisC #cure #illness #health #medicine #DIY #pirating #counterfeit #free #patents #research #money #law #FederalLaw #intellectualProperty

  19. CW: Cost at $78. Price at $80,000

    Unlike many other drugs that treat viruses, Sovaldi does not suppress hepatitis C, a virus that kills roughly 250,000 people around the world each year. It cures it.

    “Normally you have a virus, and your body fights it off or your body fights it to a standstill and you just have it forever, basically, and hope it remains dormant more or less,” Laufer said. “The holy grail for every virologist is to find a way to drain the viral reservoir, and Sovaldi does this. You take one pill of Sovaldi a day for 12 weeks and then you don’t have hepatitis C anymore.”

    The problem is that those pills are under patent, and they cost $1,000 per pill.

    “Literally, if you have $84,000 then hepatitis C is not your problem anymore,” Laufer said. “But given that there are other methodologies for managing hepatitis C that are not curing it and that are cheaper, insurance typically will not cover [Sovaldi]. And so we’ve got this incredible technology and it’s sitting on the shelf except for people who are ridiculously wealthy.”

    So Four Thieves Vinegar Collective set out to teach people how to make their own version of Sovaldi. Chemists at the collective thought the DIY version would cost about $300 for the entire course of medication, or about $3.57 per pill. But they were wrong.

    “It’s actually just a little under $70 (83 cents per pill), which just kind of blew my mind when they finally showed me the results,” Laufer said. “I was like, can we do the math here again?”

    The above lines were written for paid subscribers and are excerpt from #404Media 404media.co/right-to-repair-fo @law

    #pharma #pharmacy #pharmaceutics #Hepatitis #HepatitisC #cure #illness #health #medicine #DIY #pirating #counterfeit #free #patents #research #money #law #FederalLaw #intellectualProperty

  20. This is wild, regardless of if you are pro, con, or indifferent regarding AI. #OpenAI #AI #IPTheft #Pirating

    🔗 Leaked Documents Show #Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI

    They are getting most if not all of #YouTube and other sites.

    "Should we download the whole #Netflix too? How could we operationalize it?” Liu said in the Slack channel."

    “We should download the full discovery channel!” someone replied.

    404media.co/nvidia-ai-scraping

  21. This is wild, regardless of if you are pro, con, or indifferent regarding AI. #OpenAI #AI #IPTheft #Pirating

    🔗 Leaked Documents Show #Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI

    They are getting most if not all of #YouTube and other sites.

    "Should we download the whole #Netflix too? How could we operationalize it?” Liu said in the Slack channel."

    “We should download the full discovery channel!” someone replied.

    404media.co/nvidia-ai-scraping

  22. Additional benefit is that with such low quality of shows, it's not even worth

    it's no wonder that cinema industry is dying rather fast and gen Z+ moving to

  23. Well, now I feel like a real #author - finding out my #book showed up on a book-#pirating website (not going to tell you which one).
    If you happened to find it there (and somehow got here), and now want to actually buy it - you can get it here:
    amazon.com/dp/B0D6WPQWL3/

  24. Well, now I feel like a real #author - finding out my #book showed up on a book-#pirating website (not going to tell you which one).
    If you happened to find it there (and somehow got here), and now want to actually buy it - you can get it here:
    amazon.com/dp/B0D6WPQWL3/

  25. TorrentGalaxy (and official mirrors) Goes Offline With Mysterious Message to Users–Its status page goes to a parked for sale, domain page.

    The message is, “TGX is offline. Updates will be posted in case of any changes.” #pirating #torrent #TorrentGalaxy

    torrentfreak.com/torrentgalaxy

  26. After best-selling U.S. authors accused companies of their , other artists have discovered their works have been copied as well: The new wave of generative AI systems are trained on vast amounts of data - text, images, video, and audio files, all scraped from the internet.
    bbc.com/news/business-66231268

  27. I think that we should stop #criminalizing #pirating and I wish the #government would give #everyone $50,000 every month no matter what and I think that #people should stop treating sex #workers like they're scum of the #earth and I wish that we all cared a little more about #artists and #musicians and #dancers and #writers and I think we should stop acting like #gender and #sexuality is the same for #everybody and I think we should all #steal a little more