Russia legalizes piracy to offset sanctions
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I mean, they should. I would have no moral burden to pirate games or movies if they do not show in my country.
Fuck them, this is a good thing for all of us.
This way at least it will increase the part of the internet I like.
Time for all based gamers to join our peace loving russian bretheren in boycotting all socalled "AMERICAN" entertainment that is trying to punish the russian people for a war that was way out of their control.
I stand in solidarity with our russian brothers refusing to 'patronize' holywood and AAA gaming of any studio that is boycotting russian gamers.
Stand with me, bois!!
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"We had to increase the prices of our movies, video games, cable sub and entertainment subs because of RuSsiaN PiraCY"
This is literally what everyone does when blockaded.
Technically it's privateering then.
Take that updoot my friend.
Correct.
Apparently they are revoking all patents too, for the patent-holders in nations that have boycotted their country.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/russia-removes-protections-for-patent-holders-from-unfriendly-countries-reports_4328708.html
Ironic that all the bannings and censorships and crackdowns might make russia the most free market in the entire world.
Like they want to watch modern fagfest movies anyway.
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Yeah from now on it's Pfizer-style evil and Bayer-style evil.
Any good Russian sites for media? Asking for a friend...
If you like metal music, I heard about these sites ... from a friend: https://losslessmetal.com/ https://metalminos.net/
No idea who runs these. Some of the FLAC rip logs are in Russian ... or so I've heard. I'd obviously never go there myself!
The fast and simple way - pick a decent non-corporate search engine, type the name of the media you want in quotes, and add "скачать", "смотреть" or "читать", which is Russian for "download", "watch", and "read", respectively. You'll get useful results, usually on the first page. Works from any location in the world. Just be ready to dodge a bunch of pop-ups, and make sure the media isn't translated in Russian, games in particular.
One time in Minecraft I got a ton of music from Rutracker.org.
99% of the time there were flac or mp3 options. They even had obscure stuff I wouldn't expect to find there. There wasn't anything I loooked for they didn't have. You need to make an account to download and it's in Russian but just use a page translator.
It's not as if they weren't pirating everything anyway.
This is hilarious.
Too bad there isn't anything worth watching.
This will cause massive DRM
You cannot effectively DRM music or video. At some point it has to be played and that's where it can be recorded.
Even if media could only be played in uncrackable, sealed hardware (which would be so limited and cumbersome legit consumers would avoid it), you can always record it with a microphone or a camera.
However with games there is the problem of "always-online" which completely kills the games when the company decides to shut it down. Perhaps with state sponsorship we can do a better job of emulating those servers.
That requires a lot of money spend on something that may not work at all. Companies will cheapskate it and as a result it will be cracked within the week of release most of the time.
I think that is really optimistic. I don't mean games that just "phone-in" to make sure you're allowed to play them. With games that legitimately need server emulation, cracking that and getting something close to the original can take years of development. Of course this doesn't apply to scams like SimCity that have a few things done by the server to make you think it needs one. Those are easier.
Ross Scott (Freeman's Mind) talks about the danger of "dead games" more than anyone else I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
The only way games will ever fully avoid being cracked is if every title is streamed. You would need all the assets and functionality to be hosted on an unhackable server, and NO LEAKS. Always on-line can easily be fixed by spoofing a server. Even if the code isn't released, you can monitor traffic to reverse engineer the proper responses like they did with some MMOs (I think WoW might be an example- hosting legacy servers).
Yes Ultima Online was another early example with private shards.
Corporations are literally too lazy or greedy to do this. Imagine Rockstar making dedicated servers for Grand Theft Auto Online for example, they won't.
Aight Bois, please tell me you have links.
Back in 2010s I used to watch tons of movies on vk.com (Russian social media) "movie name ENG" would get many results. But they eventually cracked down.
Any other good sources? I'm talking full hd streaming with minimal popups ( no movies123 bs)
Another is actvid.com but it tends to lag sometimes.
more jerking to ukr leader, i think
We download and we rip and we do what we please
We get all that we want for free
As you sit on your ass
And rip your media stash
Russian pirates we
So with a yo ho ho
And with a yee hee hee
We take to the Digital sea
We’ll brave the squalls
And bust your firewalls
Russian pirates we
Like the good old times of pre-WTO. Let it roll))
Good, anything that bites into the bullshit of intellectual property I give a thumbs up.
It's literally the only logical course of action if something is refused to be sold to you. How do you think emulation took off so much?
Good. Worldwide copyright law has swung so far in the direction of mega-companies that there needs to be some official rebalancing somewhere.
In mother Russia bear poke you.
This is actually incredibly interesting. Why would Russia enforce laws protecting non-Russian businesses if the only real thing that can be done to punish them (sanctions) is already done to its near fullest extent?
Unless a country decides to go to literal war with Russia over copyright laws, I see no reason why they wouldn't take this play.
Hell, go all in and have a Russian State media site where the state pirates for you.
What no one here is thinking about is the fact this is going to give western producers an "excuse" to load their games up with even more DRM and internet-dependent content. You know, to try to keep those damn Ruskies from stealing!
They'll punish us for this, one way or another.
Good. The harder they crack down on the innocent and uninvolved, the more people wake up- maybe learn some sailing techniques while they're at it. Arrr
...
fucking hell.
Think I'm being harsh? I'm tired of waiting for the normie rejection of pop-media. Any IP I could have gotten excited about has already been bastardised or couldn't be made again in <current year>. They deserve every bit of DRM, Woke, GAAS, microtransaction bullshit they put up with. Get angry or GTFO, I say!
No, I did not mean I thought you were being harsh.
find in yandex.com for example "the fallout free hd1080 english" and you'll find streaming servers ( https://fpxtv.com/ and another )
good
Sadly, nuance is a trait lost on the general populace. They only see black and white. Good and bad.
We drink and we pillage and we do what we please We get all that we want for free We’ll kick your ass And rape your lass Somalian pirates we
So with a yo ho ho And with a yee hee hee We take to the African sea We’ll brave the squalls And bust your balls Somalian pirates we
We left our homes and we left our mothers To go on a pillaging spree We’ll cut off your ears And break your toes And make you drink our pee
And if you sail into our waters You best hear this decree We’ll take your boat Set your ass afloat Somalian pirates we
With a yo ho ho (yo ho ho) And a tricky lah-tee do (tricky lah-tee do) We’ll shoot you in the face with glee Then we’ll cut off your cock And feed it to a croc Somalian pirates we
Somalian pirates we Somalian pirates we
rutracker's pretty good
I wonder if this will extend to the stuff they make...
A little bit as a side effect, but like the patent law change it is targeted to imports.
However if they unblock a tracker site, obviously people could share whatever they want including Russian movies.
Also a natural outcome of a trade war is that other countries may decide not to recognize Russia's copyrights.
They can consume cucked content. And we can consume uncucked content made by them. Win-win.
Great, so the piracy talks in here about downloading stuff did not happen! Wonderful!
Says the inbred.
Thanks for the information. I was wondering about that since they have a very prominent movie and gaming industry.
So I guess prior to now Russians were never pirating games and software. And they as a group were totally not second to only China for media piracy
Before: we do what we can, but piracy is difficult to eliminate
After: lol get fucked, we encourage our people to take your shit
They never did anything to eliminate it
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DO WHAT YOU WANT BECAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE
IP pirates should be publicly tortured to death.
IP is fake and gay
Yeah. All those people who earn money by developing software are fake and don't deserve any compensation for their labor. Fuck those people, right?
Or, is it that all software developers are jews and therefore it's moral to steal from them?
Did you watch "Don't Copy that Floppy" and mistake it for a lost book of the Old Testament or something?
You can't steal bits. Does the internet run out if you download too much? Do you have to return your bits so the next person can use them? Since every piece if software you use is copied into RAM before it is run, is every computer a burglary tool?
If you think IP is a valid concept you don't really understand how things work. Do you even know the relevant laws that apply to IP?
So you think nobody should get paid for creating software.
What does creating software or even getting paid have anything to do with IP?
You do realive every game on steam is also available on piratebay yet somehow the store has stayed open.
Or that the biggest software projects in the world are created and maintained by mostly unpaid volunteers.
Shut the fuck up and kill yourself you whiny faggot thief. Every thief has a million excuses and you're no exception.
I accept your surrender.
and also - good luck getting That market back, retards! hahaha
it's only 144 million people, less those who aren't big into western stuff and the internet. so 40 million. It's not a big market.