I started using pirated software in 1990, back when my first PC was gifted to me. All software I had was copied because I could not afford jack shit on my own. It is thanks to pirated (and open source) software that I have the career I have, and can afford to spend thousands of dollars on legitimate software, music, movies, books, etc.

Provide product people want and prices they can afford, and they'll buy them rather than pirate them. Don't persecute consumers of pirated products and most of them will eventually purchase legally.

But wouldn't that go against freedom of expression and the internet?

This is a huge deal.

More people should be fighting this.

Giving this much power to corporations isn't right.

If all else, copyright owners of any media should have the same power so they can effective end AI from stealing their content.

How long until cloudflare gets blocked

why they gotta make the headline almost sound like they gon' ban anime, don't do us dirty man

Good luck, especially if they try to ban people from ripping their CDs to FLAC as well, like, how would you even find out if someone is doing that, for instance?

Unless you somehow force a backdoor into rippers like Exact Audio Copy, CUERipper, or Whipper, the latter two being OSS, you can't.

Even SCMS never phoned home to anyone simply because the capability to do that didn't exist yet when that copy protection scheme was first implemented, and it only applied to dubbing a CD over to DAT, MD, or DCC over S/PDIF on consumer gear.

Effectively kill anime 😀

Piracy ☹️

Anyone offhandedly know how this would affect Usenet