They wouldn't be able to pay the creators due to sanctions anyways. Could be seen as a positive because it allows the creators to put pressure on the US to lift the sanctions on the country.

cuban here, can confirm, you could see the latest movies

If all the ai clankers can do it I have no problem with Cuba doing it. Hell if it's from a studio that bent the knee to trump, it should be encouraged to everyone, expecally for countries tired of the USA

I do that too!

I'll drink a cuba libre to that!

You live in Cuba? I'd love to know what your life is like.

Basado y piratería píldora

Good stuff. OG pirates.

not anymore, I left a few years ago but I still go there to visit family

Seconding the other person. I am deeply curious about learning about Cuba, whether you currently live there or not. I understand if you don't want to talk openly because of flame wars in comment sections, but I'd love to DM, or move the conversation to a different community if needed.

A non-profit community service.

We need an international digital media co-op library.

Anyone can upload/donate their digitally owned content and share ownership with the community... Or people can pool funds with the community and it can buy digital content as a non-profit co-op with shared ownership and access. Then use private torrents to decentralize data hosting and improve streaming to members.

Imagine Netflix as a non-profit digital library.

Movies, TV shows, eBooks, magazines, and music.

Maybe Cuba would be willing to host it's main office?

Based

Do they have an official web stream? I think protonvpn has Cuba as a location, it would be interesting to see. lol

Imagine if they focused on creating tools that could jailbreak iOS devices, John Deere tractors, HP printers, etc. I bet they could sell that as a service. What could the US or American companies do to stop them? They could be Disenshittification Island.

Expensive

You will own nothing and be happy.

Please open an Ask Me Anything thread! I know nothing about daily life in Cuba and I'd be super curious

Fortunately the USA wouldn't act against foreign entities on the whim of a few companies

Probably a good way to spread American culture into the country... Sweden has become super Americanized just because of American movies.

Sadly you're likely right

Insert an NSA agent to put in backdoors, so they can track every user. Then lawsuits.

And again… sad Finnish noices

How dare they after being treated so greatly by the US over the last decades? 😭

Jesus Christ. How many times have the USA done something like this? And how many times are they currently doing something like this?

That's exactly what Cory Doctorow has been advocating for

Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want those kind of dreams it's Californication...

How are they holding up?

Most of Europe I'd say...

Same for Iran :))
We have no copyright so there are official platforms like netflix with all pirated movies and the national tv shows pirated movies constantly.
Also, not a single person buys windows or office licenses here :))

I am personally betting a lot that this is where it's going (career development-wise, not prediction markets, ugh)

US tech has been absolutely awful and stagnating for awhile. It's one thing to continue to deal with it when it's actually offering good value, but it's not. Between the data sovereignty concerns and tariffs, the EU is positioned to jolt its own tech market if it's ready to take the opportunity, and I think they are.

I'm not sure I'd expect anything big or grand, much like the "year of the Linux desktop" I don't know that there will really be a breaking moment. Just slow building of momentum in that direction. And that's all it really takes, once that momentum takes hold it's not going to start flowing back to Microsoft. These greedy corporations overplayed their hand, they broke the agreements, and now there's really no going back.

So I hope ...

Based

It's also completely fine under all international law.
Following copyright law is more like a trade agreement, so if you feel wronged enough as a nation it's completely uncontroversial to suspend all or all international copyright law and deal with the consequences (mainly the us being very salty about it).

The EU contingency for a US attack on Greenland for example is among other steps to suspend all US copyrights recognition and starve the US service industry.

Im british, many younger people use American terms and have bits of American accents.

You basically just described the DHT. Something to make the torrenting experience more accessible to non-technical people would be cool tho

Have they said "thank you" once?

My wife is Dutch and thinks that all American high schools look like an ivy league university and have students that look like they're 20 walking around having sexy dramatic adventures. 🙈

The US already invaded Cuba, so...

No one buys legitimate windows or office licenses anywhere, lol (except for corporations, I guess)

What are they gonna do? Sanction?

Does this work both ways? If Cuba can do it, then AI companies can do it too? Or are we just gonna keep running with the double standards?

I frankly never quite understood why so many piracy advocates lose their minds when AI companies do the exact same thing they do. I don't buy the "but it's for profit" argument either - downloading movies, games, or apps does the exact same thing. There's no practical difference between saving money and earning money.

Cropped it for you.

Depends if you count OEM licences that came with their device as purchases, which would be the vast majority of people.

same in iran

Based and Cuba pilled

Same for Portugal, but in this case the American accent is from Brazil... 😅

let’s repurpose some old satellites!
no copyright jurisdiction in space

laughs in Linux

I saw that, and thought if people use that most of the time a) proton would eventually invest in more/better Cuban servers, and b) less likely to have copyright lawyers try and look at it.

Am I wrong?

I bet they didn't. So ungrateful!

Yes I would also like this!