Not the reporting, the Trump campaign trying to justify a few sentences with paragraphs.

If you have to offer multiple paragraphs of explanation for barely a sentence or two of his statements, you’ve already lost people’s attention, to say nothing of blatantly engaging in an Argument from Silence.

In this day, I’m pretty sure the entirety of the middle class and below would if they could.

Yawn. Is this what we’re doing, now? Virtue signaling and ragebaiting when somebody doesn’t explicitly support piracy?

This isn’t a controversy. Mark’s entire business is tied up in YouTube, and promoting piracy is against their ToS; he could lose his channel for that.

Looks like the previous version only had two positive hits on VirusTotal, according to comments, whereas this newest version has 29.

Some said the previous version is still available. I don’t really have skin in the game, so nobody should take my advice without doing your due diligence.

Okay, Obama didn’t have the benefit of future knowledge that Roe v Wade would be struck down. It was a precedent that had stood the test of time across decades.

Why the Dems didn’t do it for the very short time they had both chambers under Biden, I don’t know. Perhaps they had a naive belief that Conservatives wouldn’t be the trolls they are.

But even if we assume they won’t do anything about it again, which I seriously doubt based on how popular abortion access has become—even if we assume that, abortion isn’t the only thing on the ballot, and people are voting en masse for the Democrats, because LGBTQ rights, environmental protections, and even American democracy itself is at stake.

To cast aspersions and wring hands over abortion when we’re 30 days away from the election…I just don’t get how that helps anyone. The die has been cast. Holding onto some vain hope that neither Democrats nor Republicans will win (or worse, that everything will burn down in some bloody revolution) is madness.

Some plans may even cover it as preventative care.

What do you suppose they could do?

They need both chambers of Congress to pass a law or constitutional amendment, and they only have one. Biden could expand the Supreme Court, but he’s too much of an old school statesman to rock the status quo, and there’s no guarantee they’d vote as a unit.

Furthermore, Democratic states have been enshrining abortion access into law and/or their constitutions, and they’ve been getting abortion onto voting ballots in red states, so it’s not really fair or accurate to say they haven’t done anything meaningful.

Edit: typo

I have to wonder how long they can run on community goodwill. With handhelds like the Steam Deck and similar, surely it’s gotta be only a matter of time until they have to change or die.

Naturally. I can hope for it, but I would never expect them to counter-sue. They’re the person harmed, so they get to decide what justice looks like for them, and sometimes people just want to go back to normal.

Sanctions are really the only thing the judge has at their disposal, and I doubt Nintendo’s lawyers are dumb enough to get sanctioned.

Go for it, Nintendo. Emulation has already been proven in courts to not be sufficient evidence for wrongdoing. Also:

However, its latest move feels particularly heavy-handed, as it has issued a copyright strike against a YouTube channel that reviews emulation handhelds.

Go fuck yourself. I hope you get hit with an anti-SLAPP across your litigious faces.

Also, I feel like they kinda deserve it for being global vexatious litigants and squashing free fan projects at every opportunity.

That’s kind of my thought as well. It’s certainly possible someone might go through the effort to find a single pirate downloading The Lion King, but that’s a lot of effort (read: money) to find just one person.

There’s certainly the possibility that an ISP could note that you connected to a VPN, but given that it’s not a remarkable event, since people connect to VPNs for all kinds of legal reasons, they aren’t likely to track your particular IP’s connection to a VPN apart from a court ordering them to care. They get paid their monthly internet plan price whether someone pirates or checks their email.

If someone was running the Pirate Bay from their home servers, however, more parties would likely be interested in finding that person, and that person’s threat model probably exceeds just using a logless VPN.

How so, specifically for logless VPNs?

That’s an interesting point, but I think the “if it’s high profile enough” is key. People torrenting files is probably low on their priorities. On the other hand, somebody organizing a terrorist cell is probably much higher.

Companies might have an interest in finding pirates, but it would not be as easy for them to get other companies to comply with their subpoenas.

At least that’s a more reasonable answer than trying to imply the NSA has backdoors everywhere.

My position is that it all depends on your threat model. The government isn’t likely to go after someone who torrents files and is hidden by a VPN. The government might go after someone running a streaming site, on the other hand.

And even that might wind up with a dead end. AirVPN (for example) is Canada-based, has no logs, and accepts both crypto and anonymous cash payments.

Why?

The existence of the NSA and their activities is not proof that they have backdoors in VPNs. That’s bogeyman conspiracy theory shit—“they could be anywhere, therefore they’re everywhere!”

You still haven’t answered the question, and I’m beginning to think you are making shit up based on paranoia.

What evidence do you have that no-log VPNs are compromised by the NSA? What about VPNs based in other countries like Canada?

Are you suggesting that it’s pointless to use a VPN?