Post AWnK4oRCTbJUdnW5BI by popey@ubuntu.social
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 (DIR) Post #AWLdTRu4gky1pPbVLc by JoeRess@fosstodon.org
       2023-06-04T12:17:12Z
       
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       Amolith attempts to argue that avoiding ads using open source software is piracy, and that piracy in this case is good.https://linuxdowntime.com/linux-downtime-episode-73/
       
 (DIR) Post #AWLdbM1SRC1RuCpJsu by bradfrank@social.linux.pizza
       2023-06-04T12:32:00Z
       
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       @JoeRess Agreed with Amolith mostly. My take is that it’s subverting the intention of the producer of the media that makes it piracy or not. Definitely not the tools themselves. I guess it only matters when it comes to the law though. That said, f* these gigantic corporations and their greed. Sailing the seven seas looks to be the way forward again.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWnK4oRCTbJUdnW5BI by popey@ubuntu.social
       2023-06-05T12:48:17Z
       
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       @JoeRess I'm with Amolith too. Joe is absolutely being a hypocrite. Nobody is entitled to watch video from YouTube. They're providing a service and they have T&Cs to comply with use of the service. I absolutely skip adverts on YouTube, the web and in podcasts. Some podcasters are kind enough to put chapter markers where their ads are <3. Others, the 30s skip button works fine.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWnK5PgO06Rg9buEUK by whalecoiner@indieweb.social
       2023-06-05T13:28:43Z
       
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       @popey @JoeRess Ditto. It's evasion of payment for an electronic product (the payment being via you watching advertising), which is normally known as "piracy". (software piracy, movie piracy, music piracy). The license for accessing the product (very legally enforcably) says that you gotta watch the advertising to get the product."Piracy" has stuck because what's being done isn't quite stealing - you're not denying someone their property. But you're certinaly denying them income.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWnK5RV7EycPnEeGCO by whalecoiner@indieweb.social
       2023-06-05T13:29:07Z
       
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       @popey @JoeRess Now for sure, I view unlicensed copties of electronically-distributed stuff all the time. But I know it's piracy.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWnK5TTlswjPve2DNg by whalecoiner@indieweb.social
       2023-06-05T13:31:15Z
       
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       @popey @JoeRess This does all raise questions about everyone sticking their video media on a single provider, and why they aren't using things like Peertube. Intellectual property law is also massively, hideously biased towards large coporations - it isn't there to benefit individual creators. Just look at LLM scraping for that.The ultimate solution for all of this is Eng Capitalism, because these laws are bound up with that. If you figure out how, please let me know. ;)
       
 (DIR) Post #AWnK5VALc8Nn9yxjNo by whalecoiner@indieweb.social
       2023-06-05T13:32:14Z
       
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       @popey @JoeRess I can feel Joe getting fighty with all the emails and posts he's receiving on this topic. 😂
       
 (DIR) Post #AWnK5WxIxb8ci6sLKa by whalecoiner@indieweb.social
       2023-06-05T13:34:19Z
       
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       @popey @JoeRess also you gotta acknowledge that people choose to add adverts to their videos on youtube in order to get (some meagre) income from them. They can certainly choose to put them up without any advertising attached.