Not laughing at the paying customers

You literally changed the title so you could call them idiots.

Yes, people have had these existential crisis moments about piracy for many years. Just a couple of notable examples within my lifetime were the many issues of The Pirate Bay in the 2000s, the closure of KickassTorrents in the 2010s and RARBG’s shutdown last year. People panicked over the initial DeezLoader and YouTube Vanced project shutdowns too. Every single time, without fail, something new rises up whether it’s a direct clone or something entirely new. It’s not always as good initially, but I can’t really say any of these “crackdowns” have had a significant effect from my perspective.

Yes, the projects on GitHub were shutdown. That doesn’t mean the extension suddenly became “ineffective” or is no longer being worked on. It was simply cloned elsewhere and development continues. I think I am getting an idea of why you’re so pessimistic about piracy - you base your opinions on articles and forum speculation instead of lived experience. If you actually used this extension, you would know that at no point has it stopped working.

Almost all the ways to bypass news paywalls are currently ineffective.

What are you referring to here? Bypass Paywalls Clean is still being updated and covers a lot of stuff across multiple languages.

Is that actually a proxy or just a clone?

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*Nyaa-uh

It’s funny how similar these shutdown messages always are. They never state the real reason why the project is ending and always have some weird sentence at the end recommending everyone use paid services, even though their entire project completely undermined them for years. I guess they are advised (threatened) to use certain language by whoever is pressuring them.

One of my university lecturers uses this, I could see it in his bookmarks while he cast his browser lol

You act like this is a universally confusing concept, when it’s only Americans who seem to have difficulty understanding that different countries have different laws and definitions. In any case, it was reported as solitary confinement in both the EU and US at the time so I’m not really sure what you guys are crying about.

That is sort of like complaining that people think of the US when they hear “school shooting”:

No it’s not, because in this case it was quite clearly solitary confinement in Sweden and Denmark. If you read that and thought “oh they mean US solitary confinement” then you are retarded.

Ok so I think what most people think about when they talk about solitary confinement is the US version

“Okay so I think what most people think about when they talk about Sweden and Denmark is the US”.

He was held in solitary confinement in both Sweden and Denmark. This was reported on at the time. I’m not sure why you’re trying to second-guess me when you clearly have zero knowledge about the history of this guy.

I believe it was because he failed to return to Sweden to serve his Pirate Bay sentence and instead remained in Cambodia where he was living at the time. There was an international warrant out for his arrest and when he was deported back to Sweden he was judged at risk of flight or further “criminal activities”. He was removed from solitary after a few months, so I’m not sure if he was put back there for his later, longer sentence of hacking.

EDIT: He was later held in solitary confinement in Denmark for at least 10 months while awaiting trial for hacking.

Nice bravado but he ultimately wasted years of his life in solitary confinement.

EDIT: Maybe not years. Certainly months. Actually it was over a year when you add the reported stints together.

I didn’t say you did. Your question implies that there must be a reason why the listing of resources in the megathread is considered “legal”. I am flipping the question around and asking you - why must this be the case? Do you believe there is something inherently “illegal” about the megathread? If so, what?

What makes it “illegal”?

It still works for now and the project will be revived in some way, I’m sure. Nothing to worry about.

The author just insists that Israeli government genocide is bad and that the ordinary citizens are complicit. I think the implicit logic must be: bad people should be punished, depriving them of music punishes them. While it might satisfy a craving to hurt the bad guys, I think it’s much harder to claim that this would help stop the genocide.

It’s because the mindset of the people who make these types of arguments is rooted in childish ideas about human behaviour. It’s why younger people in particular are so big on cancel culture, because they still believe that taking away the toys magically changes the behaviour of adults out in the real world. What actually happens when you cut people off completely is that you lose access to all the outlets through which you can begin or maintain a dialogue. Who do these people turn to when you’re no longer talking to them? The culture warriors never get this far because they lack the life experience to understand how to navigate difficult relationships. Social media has unfortunately contributed significantly to the spread of this infantile mindset where “the world is full of good people and bad people, and if we disagree about something then you’re clearly one of the bad people and I am no longer talking to you”.

This is a moronic take, the kind of thing only some western Gen Z cancel culture warrior with no life experience would believe in. Radiohead understand that large numbers of their fans live in countries with questionable or outright authoritarian governments (they are massive in South America, for example). It would be very problematic if they started picking and choosing which of their fans was deserving of a live concert based on where they live or what kind of policies their government has been pursuing. Their music is something that unites people from all over the world and continuing to share it with everyone is the best thing they can do in this situation.