I'm in the EU. I was anti-piracy in the past. It took Trump's threats to our territory for me to stop paying any streaming services and actively engage in piracy.
Now the money goes to the seedbox hosts outside the US instead of disney or netflix. I also started using ad-blocker for youtube instead of paying.
I don't think this is fair towards the content creators but i just can't bring myself to give the US companies any money unless i absolutely have to. I will keep doing this until the US changes its laws/constitution to disallow someone like Trump from threatening their allies, oh and plus until they apologise and promise not to do it again.
Not only will i not give them money, i will aim to cause them economical harm.

Funnily i watched so much Star Trek: TNG 20 years ago that i developed an Oxford accent when speaking english lol

I've seen better crops during the Irish famine

I gave my Linux laptop to my brother and that fucker bought a separate retail copy of windows (because it'd be stealing otherwise). I'm ashamed to be related to that fucker.

Sorry it was six years ago. I'm told to let it go, but I just don't understand.

Yes and yes.

In what court, exactly?

Does this work both ways? If Cuba can do it, then AI companies can do it too?

No, because we make such deferences out of empathy and social awareness, which is a thing for humans. Clankers, by definition, can deserve no empathy.

It's infuriating, but if it's your brother, unless he's jeopardising an important priority in your life in a way that affects your life opportunities and/or wellbeing/health, ya should probably tolerate it somewhat. Like explain why what he did is a bad thing and let it be. Family discount. At least it's not your parent that's acting up.

Anyway, I am just talking out of my ass here, free advice, and all that. I don't blame you at all, I'd be pissed too.

Never let go.

Has Cuba tried wearing a suit?

Raise their tariffs to 1000%.

Cuba also grants political asylum to US fugitive cop killers

And yet, I've not seen a better comment in a good while!

On the American customers, for DMCA violation.

Wait what!? You're telling me that I can blast a pig and go live on a tropical, Marxist lenonist island?

Tan? Dijon mustard? No wonder Trump hates them.

Look up Assata Shakur, and read Assata: An Autobiography.

Oh i see him at family events I play with his kids. I even loaned him some money to buy a house. I just stopped talking about tech or exchanging tech. I stopped his access to my plex and nextcloud.
I'm the tech guy of the family but he is blacklisted in tech.

cop killers

You say that like it's a bad thing.

USA not only grants asylum to genocidal pedos. It puts them in the highest offices.

Deny basic human needs to an entire population? Starve even more people to death?

Yeah, most likely.

What could the US or American companies do to stop them?

The empire is literally bombing and starving the planet for the sake of capitalism and its MIC.

They're already murdering cubans for nothing.

It's uncountable.

There's absolutely nothing "positive" about Cuba joining a genocidal empire just so they can broadcast commercials.

I was anti-piracy in the past.

Hopefully you realize the error of your ways and the vast damage done by the violent control of free information. The hegemonic narrative around "ownership" serves capitalism, not humanity.

I am deeply curious about learning about Cuba

So go visit.

Oh man. I hate this corny phrase. Stop shilling for "ownership". Braindead capitalist ideology.

What I do is try to support the creators as directly as I can when possible. This obviously doesn't really work with Hollywood productions, but it can work decently well with music and books. I'm hoping it also has the added side-effect of hopefully having more musicians/authors make their stuff available for direct purchase.

Ownership of personal property is not capitalist only ownership of private property is.

Stop making Cuba sound so based

Our movies

Imagine being incharge of national piracy

Such a flex🗿

Why does Sweden dislike the US so much according to this poll though:

Yeah, I haven't seen a poster bomb this hard since the IRA

🤓

I already love cuba, you dont have to sell it to me

I believe Iran and other sanction countries would be doing the same? I see no drawbacks

Trump.

lmaaao, I feel sorry for you

They might be disagreeing with their politics, culture however is different ig? Especially after trump

Here you go:

Wen speaking about copyright and how the USA is abusing its power, this is worth watching

Donald Trump has been threatening Europe both militarily and economically. Two years ago it would have been completely different.

Except that no country is likely to take him up on that suggestion because they're afraid of how the US would react. Cuba's already heavily sanctioned, so they have less to lose. Maybe nothing to lose.

Exactly, so this wouldn't make things any worse.

You can also do it without blasting anyone.

In a stolen font

YOU WOULDNT STEAL A SHITTY OPERATING SYSTEM

why are you asking questions backwards if tote already answered?

a company is not a person, the only benefit a company can get from it is PROFIT and the value a real human being gets from pirating varies from pure entertainment to cultural capital

What you get from pirating is not having to pay. Purchasing a movie still gives you the same entertainment and cultural capital.

Nobody is obligated to hand out for free something they put time, effort, and capital into creating and running. If someone can justify to themselves that it's okay to download it for free, then criticizing AI companies for doing the exact same thing is hypocritical on their part.

Making money and saving money achieve exactly the same thing: you end up with more to spend.

Yeah because saving money as an individual is the same as a company choosing to not pay copyright holders so they can make more profit from pirating petabytes of info

Very clever, you are clearly very intelligent

Let me put an /s just so this doesn't go over your head too