If you can present the law that makes it illegal to download, please do so.
The laws of the USA make it illegal to distribute, but license violations are beef between you and a company subject to civil dispute at most (which is entirely uneconomic to pursue) AND technically you haven’t violated the license, the distributor has.
In fact, Facebook downloaded millions of archived and pirated works recently but claim no wrongdoing because they didn’t seed anything.
The article says
Soon it became dangerous to download the movie, though, as popular demand for the movie quickly put a target on downloaders’ backs and scammers soon planted malware in Spider-Man movie torrents that ReasonLabs reported used the movie to “lure in as many victims as possible.”
ReasonLabs said that the malware was “likely from a Russian torrenting site.” It took over the would-be Spider-Man movie watchers’ computers without setting off Windows Defender and with the goal of cryptomining in the background for the bad actors’ benefit.
It could be that the article is misquoting people and displaying a Bias, but I wouldn’t know.
I’m sure some Tankies could provide it free of charge, ask around ML and Hexbear
This isn’t a “piracy is bad” comment, this guy in particular was feeding media specifically to a group that repackaged malware into it.
I think I know why.
He really wasn’t. The media he distributed came with Russian malware.
I’m okay with going after both. This guy was enabling a Russian Hacker network.
Honestly, yeah, he was enabling Russian Hackers.
He didn’t get arrested for theft. He got arrested for being part of a distribution network that empowered Russian hackers.
To be clear. Copying or downloading media is not illegal. Distribution is.
The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.
I reccomend that anyone and everyone who can afford to do this start planning for it immediately. Just get in a ship, and leave earth. Go now.
Even South Park isn’t this wacky. They had to scrap and remake an episode after the 2016 election because it was completely baffling to them that Trump won.
Right, let me fill you in, Tankies are people who support authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, etc. They’re all over Lemmy. Sometimes they’re very forthright with their ideologies, other times they try to astroturf and pretend to subtly align with our ideals so that they can influence us to do the following: Harm Western World Powers, Dismantle Democracies, Empower China.
The often use words like Bourgeois and Capitalists, speak of NATO as if it were militaristic imperialism, and oppose nonviolent political reforms of all types. They claim to support communism and/or socialism, but they absolutely will not promote any politicial path to implement those which do not involve overthrowing the state or without weakening “liberals”. Note that they do not mean a Liberal party, they mean the concept of liberalism.
Primarily you find them on Lemmy ml, Hexbear, and lemmygrad but you will find them all over. They are here. And they hate you. They want your neighbors to get fed up and kill you or vice versa.
avoid the tankies
Or intentionally piss them off, either works
The USA is a first past the post 2 party system.
Want to improve that? Vote Democrat. Want to make it worse? Throw your vote away, let the Republicans make it a one party.
fun fact: Hitler’s rise to power was heralded by right wing unity and left wing splintering, centrists and the left being unable to form a government in 3 elections until the Nazi party won and instantly formed a government which effectively ended the weimar republic.
Land Contracts and Contracts for Deed aren’t considered mortgages so they lack tax incentives as well as legal protections for buyers and sellers, but yes I do agree that a long term contract beats a monthly rental agreement in terms of locking in a rate.
Sometimes you can get trapped in a contract that would disqualify all your payments up to that point if it doesn’t have terms about cashing in your equity unless you pay the full amount due via selling to a third party or getting a bank loan with which you can repay via renting or selling your property like some sort of sick landlord carousel.
I definitely don’t know if I would “recommend” this route for people who aren’t well-learned in matters of real estate, if they do go this route then I absolutely insist they have a trustworthy attorney act as intermediary for the transaction.
Thank you for expanding this discussion.
In 2016 the four elections before super Tuesday. One had Bernie win New Hampshire with 60% for 15 delegates and Hillary 9 delegates, the other three went to Hillary with 49%, 52%, and 73% for a total of 82 to Bernie’s 50.
After Super Tuesday where Hillary won 8 of the 11 states she had a lead 197 delegates and in the middle of march won another 8 out of 12 states for a lead of 320 delegates. In late march Bernie saw a small comeback of 7 state victory and the overseas democrats out of 9 contests.
From April through June Hillary had won 14 contests out of 20, including Puerte Rico, DC, and Guam as well as 11 more states.
At this point HRC had 16,914,722 votes and 2,842 delegates to Bernie Sander’s 13,206,428 votes and 1,820 delegates. It was a long, drawn out primary race with a very clear winner by millions of votes.
So why do people keep spreading the lie that it was rigged? Because they don’t want Democrats to win. They want us to get mad at our own party and splinter into smaller factions.
I think we should have listened to Bernie: and voted for Hillary Clinton.
Some townships and counties have strict regulations and housing authorities which make coops and communal housing difficult, rarely intentionally but often as a result of requiring liability and responsibility for repairs and outcomes.
That said, there is a big push in a lot of cities such as Denver which is allowing more options.
One thing to be wary about is that depending on the structure of the commune/cooperative it might be indistinguishable from an HOA or a Condo.
Delegation process aside, millions more people still chose the winners.
Right, so the owners have their rights enshrined in laws to make copies, sales, and derivatives, but that doesn’t mean people other than owners are breaking a law by downloading a copy that a third party made and distributed. In fact, that text alone doesn’t make it illegal to make copies, derivatives, or distributions, that would instead be outlined in U.S Code Title 17 Chapter 5 Section 506 which says:
As with your quote from the FAQ, the entire section says:
Statutory Damages are civil. Risk of liability for downloads means it isn’t certain. There are no criminal proceedings for downloading copyrighted media, it isn’t illegal.
In fact, it’s actually even more lenient than I had expected, you STILL don’t qualify for criminal charges even if you cost the real copyright owner $999.99.