There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Whirlybird ,

🤣 Fuck of reddit, they’re handing over that data without putting up a fight.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

Then provide better streaming options including price and service. Piracy will always win whether they like it or not.

I’m surprised Netflix is still around at their price rate and the way they keep canceling shows. I jumped on the BF deal for Peacock, because I wasn’t gonna pay the full price.

I only have Peacock for WWE, so everything is a bonus. But not everybody is gonna pay for 7 services monthly or yearly. Either put it all under one service or understand some of us are gonna pirate.

Amazon prime is gonna start having ads this month, so people are gonna have to pay more for ad free on top of prime membership or pirate to avoid ads. Before we know, they’ll start putting ads in games while they load.

skeezix ,

WWE? Bubba, it may be cheaper to simply attend some local monster truck rallies or rodeos.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

Well I’m talking about the WWE monthly PPVs. But I got the $20/yr black Friday deal and then $6/mo no ads.

Teknikal ,

I’ve noticed reddit has recently started shadowbanning my posts when I have a vpn active so I’d say at this point it’s probably completely unsafe to discuss anything on.

13617 ,

Absolutely. That and the recent vpn blocking changes has made using reddit absolutely unbearable.

ad_on_is ,
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

Sure… here’s mine…

🖕.💩.🍆.🍑

dannym , (edited )

I believe that the following IP ranges

  • 103.231.144.0/24
  • 192.31.196.0/24
  • 216.176.216.0/21
  • 199.248.239.0/24
  • 192.198.30.0/24
  • 69.12.98.42

are engaged in highly suspicious activities

furthermore I can definitely say that I found some dirty pirates hiding at the following ip ranges:

  • 175.45.176.0/24
  • 175.45.177.0/24
  • 175.45.178.0/24
  • 175.45.179.0/24

my research clearly shows proof that those people are not just pirates but also engaged in highly illegal activities such as stealing BILLIONS of dollars and hacking who knows how many servers, and that’s only the crimes one can talk about online.

if you don't get the jokeno, I didn’t share IPs that anyone here would ever have, I guarantee it, if you don’t get the joke look up “bogon routes” and then look up which ASN owns the other set. It looks more legit than people who use 192.168.0.0/16, 8.8.8.8, 127.0.0.1, or any other things like that because most people don’t know about those. Also bonus info: here’s a tip for you, if you’re a sysadmin just go ahead and ban those IP ranges on your machines, if you ever get packets from them it’s an attack 99.999999% of the time (I guess unless you have customers in north korea? in which case only block the first ones and all other bogon routes)

dutchkimble ,

Thanks for that tip, had no idea about bogon routes

charonn0 ,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

tl;dr: The users’ comments say that a certain ISP is pirate-friendly. Studios want to use the comments against the ISP (not the users).

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT ,

“pirate friendly” meaning not snitching on their own paying customers? Wow

charonn0 ,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

I just thought “pirate-friendly” was concise.

jol ,

Basically, yes. They want ISPs to police us.

IzzyJ ,

They do realize IP can be changed by just resetring your router, right?

derpgon ,

Not everyone. Also, they should just give them their private range IPs for the lols (192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/16 etc.).

Buck ,

Your ISP will still have a log of which IP was assigned to you at any date and time

cybersandwich ,

Those are notoriously shitty and unreliable.

onlinepersona ,

It would be great if piracy instances were hosted on I2P and TOR. Then these chucklefucks would have nothing.

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CosmicCleric , (edited )
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Apology for hijacking your comment, but I wanted to ask you a question about the Creative Commons link you put at the end of your comment.

Are you doing that because of people who may use your comments to train AI reasons?

If so, do you think legally that covers it, since it’s a link, and not just the text itself?

In other words, would an AI trainer have to drill into the link before your comment is covered by that clause?

onlinepersona ,

That’s a good question that I don’t have an answer to as I have no legal training. I’m assuming if you can sign a contract online where the legal text is behind a link and the main offer is what you see… maybe? Technically, it wouldn’t be too difficult to simply erase any mention of a license in a pre-cleaning phase of the data, but I don’t know if the act itself would be an even bigger indication of guilt. There would be no excuse like “oops, I just copied this data into my training set, teehee”. But as I said, not a legal expert.

If there are copyright experts that want to weigh in, I’d be interested to hear their opinion. Given that there are running, unanswered cases (most notably again Microsoft’s Copilot), and Japan on the verge of drafting into law that AI training data can ignore copyright, it’s possible even legal experts would have a hard time answer the question.

I’m putting them here just in case. Only costs me a line carriage and a Ctrl+V.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

If there are copyright experts that want to weigh in, I’d be interested to hear their opinion.

Myself as well. It’s a new frontier, legally.

I’m putting them here just in case. Only costs me a line carriage and a Ctrl+V.

Seeing that you have done that made me start to think about doing it myself, as I definitely feel there are days when I’m being shadowed by AI training mechanisms.

But if it doesn’t make any difference legally as a deterrent, then I wouldn’t bother.

ArmokGoB ,

Even if it’s ruled illegal in the US, there’s nothing stopping AI companies from moving their operations to Japan where copyright doesn’t apply to training data.

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

It will definitely be interesting to see how all of the shakes out, legally wise.

onlinepersona ,

But if it doesn’t make any difference legally as a deterrent, then I wouldn’t bother.

Once that’s determined, then yeah, I won’t bother either. Until then though… CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

HKayn ,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

What the person using those links does not realize is that a Creative Commons license relaxes restrictions rather than imposing additional ones.

Everything you create is already protected by copyright by default. If you publish an essay and don’t append any license to it, nobody may republish or remix that essay without your permission, unless an exception like fair use applies. The exact restrictions will depend on local laws.

By using a Creative Commons license, you choose to forgo some of those copyright protections. Thus the comments of the person you replied to are actually less protected than yours or mine.

Staiden ,

Or maybe even a mirror so if you wanted to keep your ip hidden you could.

razrabotka ,

I should start adding that to my comments too! Buuuut…

CC BY-SA 4.0

onlinepersona ,

Whatever suits your fancy.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Sine_Fine_Belli ,

Pirates: “I’m 4 dimensions ahead of you.”

SuperSpruce ,

I’m getting deja Vu. Didn’t thjs happen last year, too?

lefixxx ,

Articles says it’s the third tome

cryptiod137 ,

What happens when they get the fourth tome?

AnxiousOtter ,

Straight to jail.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

Summon Cthulhu.

Got_Bent ,

Fortunately for me, I’m too old to know how to pirate even if I wanted to do so.

However, I’m sure the fine people at Broderbund would like to have a long conversation with me from way, way back in the day.

Choplifter and Karateka took up hours and hours and hours of my elementary/middle school years.

JackbyDev ,

Well, if you download software like qBittorrent be sure to not accidentally download and torrents to copyrighted content.

BlackPenguins ,

Or use a VPN while you do it.

Reddfugee42 ,

Of course, knowing how to do something has nothing to do with age; there are people over the new who could teach you just fine 😅

SoleInvictus ,
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.world avatar

If you were playing Choplifter in elementary school, you’re really not THAT old. Or you are and that makes me old too, but I’m -hypothetically- completely capable of figuring out piracy. Don’t short yourself, there’s always room on the high seas.

Got_Bent ,

I think I was in fifth grade when Choplifter came out. I got that sweet sweet apple ii joystick so I could play it better than with the keyboard

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

If you were playing Choplifter in elementary school, you’re really not THAT old.

If you had to load Choplifter into your Apple II to play it with a cassette tape recorder, then yes, you are old, you are a first gen computer game player.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

were you held back 10-20 years or so? The oldest 5th grader ever?

I’m trying to figure out how a 70+ year old was playing Karateka in school.

wowwoweowza ,

Is it possible a film studio, or legal agency, could set up a Lemmy Instance and then capture all our IPs?

Somethingcheezie ,

Absolutely. One of the biggest child porn groups is an FBI front for this purpose. I’d google the subject for a link but umm…no

wowwoweowza ,

So basically the only thing protecting our anonymity is the relative unpopularity of Lemmy?

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

To expand on this. If you are talking about anything online it is not private. That doesn’t matter if it’s in a WhatsApp chat, a telegram chat, a Lemmy post, a Facebook feed, etc. as soon as it hits a computer if someone wants to see it they will. There’s just hurdles to get it.

If you want anonymity stop using computers.

Somethingcheezie ,

Ain’t this the truth.

Here’s story about a serial killer being caught by a floppy drive’s meta data.

grunge.com/…/heres-how-the-btk-killer-was-finally…

Facebones ,

Few things more fun than telling people who harp about vaccines being tracking chips that if they’re worried about tracking they should ditch their smartphone, and watching them rage.

JonEFive ,

You mean the always-on GPS-enabled internet-connected microphone and camera which is also likely Bluetooth and NFC beaconing and contains all of my most personal data including my name, contacts, unencrypted chats facilitated by major cell phone carriers, photos, emails, and other personal files which are also likely synced with a cloud service operated by major multi-national corporations, and also stores biometric data such as facial recognition, fingerprints, time spent sleeping, and even heart rate and number of steps taken assuming you have “fitness” features enabled?

With those last couple items, these massive companies that regularly share data with law enforcement are literally tracking your every step and nearly every beat of your heart.

Well don’t worry about that, I’ve got Express VPN.

tigeruppercut ,

Detectives were able to run relatively simple tests to determine that the file had last been saved by a user named “Dennis,” and it had been printed using one of the printers at the nearby Christ Lutheran Church.

Maybe the article is badly worded, but it seems like they got metadata from the file, not the floppy disk itself.

Somethingcheezie ,

It was either the FAT file or the file itself. The case is famous.

onlinepersona ,

Tell me you know nothing about computers without telling me you know nothing about computers.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

vsh ,
@vsh@lemm.ee avatar

Says the guy licensing his own comments on social media.

Tell me you know nothing about copyright without telling me you know nothing about copyright.

onlinepersona ,

😂 at least I’m not pretending I know anything about copyright

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

End0fLine ,
@End0fLine@startrek.website avatar

I wanted to let you know that you’re honesty with this comment made me chuckle.

MxM111 ,

Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

You’re not anonymous online either FYI.

MxM111 ,

Depends what and how you do it. VPN gives some level of anonymity. TOR even more so. These give you probably greater anonymity than anything else you have in offline live.

ILikeBoobies ,

The internet is at it’s worst when it’s popular

The Federation of lemmy/mastodon instances is the worst part about it

etrotta ,
@etrotta@lemmy.eco.br avatar

I’m not sure that this is how it works in practice, but ideally: Unless you are registered in their stance / are browsing directly in their website, your client shouldn’t be making any direct requisitions to their instance, so there is nothing they can infer your IP from. (Everything you interact with is comes directly your instance - the only thing that interacts with other instances is the server) That said, it’s possible for some links to direct to the original stance, in which case your client will have to make requests directly to the original instance hosting the content… looking around in this page a bit, it looks like the Community images (banner, icon etc.) are linking directly to the original instance, so I guess that’s a little bit of a problem - but just that shouldn’t be enough information for them to connect the dots between the IP address fetching the image and the account you’re using to browse

spader312 ,

Don’t images also link back to the original instance?

Art3sian ,
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

Yup. About 7 years ago I used to darkweb pretty hard in the drug scene (I haven’t in years so have at it, Mr. FBI).

Anyway I used Reddit subs a lot for info on new markets and onions, reliable sellers, and news on exit scams etc, but I only lurked - never commented. Anyone with a brain in their head knew they were honeypots.

wowwoweowza ,

Hope I didn’t fall for Any honeypots. I sometimes wonder about posts in Piracy communities.

redditReallySucks ,
@redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I think not as the only instance that has your ip is the one you are registered on.

wowwoweowza ,

One would hope…

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

unless you visit the instance yourself or activitypub starts including user ips

ademir ,
@ademir@lemmy.eco.br avatar

AP protocol doesn’t propagate your IP

BreakDecks ,

They would just have to start DMing us meme images hosted on a server they control, and they’d get a list of IPs. All we’d have to do is look.

Fwiw, this would work on Reddit too.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Unless anyone shared the in image link anywhere else on the internet. “Judge, they looked at this publicly accessible image” is hardly evidence

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

“Judge, they looked at this publicly accessible image” is hardly evidence

Sometimes you don’t have to win a court case legally, to win a court case. Just the harassment of the lawsuit is enough.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar 

<span style="color:#323232;">“Judge, they looked at this publicly accessible image” is hardly evidence
</span>

Sometimes you don’t have to win a court case legally, to win a court case. Just the harassment of the lawsuit is enough.

That’s not a lawsuit they would even attempt, as it would get immediately thrown out.

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

That’s not a lawsuit they would even attempt, as it would get immediately thrown out.

People use the threat of lawsuit as an intimidation tactic all the time.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

So they would send random DMs with pictures, to threaten lawsuits they couldn’t enforce, to achieve what exactly?

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

So they would send random DMs with pictures, to threaten lawsuits they couldn’t enforce, to achieve what exactly?

They wouldn’t have to send random DM’s if they got the IP addresses more directly, as the article describes.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

The comment I originally replied to:

They would just have to start DMing us meme images hosted on a server they control, and they’d get a list of IPs. All we’d have to do is look.

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I’m aware. My point still stands.

BreakDecks ,

They know what torrents people download by IP.

anyone can figure that out: iknowwhatyoudownload.com

Associating IPs with social media accounts is a step towards identifying people so they can threaten them and force them into settlements.

It’s a numbers game for the lawyers. They want as much data as they can get to identify the largest number of people so they can demand an out-of-court settlement.

The “DMing pictures” part is just an example of how they could gather that kind of data from a social network like Lemmy that can’t be so easily subpoenaed, and allows image hotlinking. I don’t have any evidence that they are doing this (yet), I just know that it would work.

BreakDecks ,

Yeah, but do you publicly share every spam DM image that is shared with you? Would you even know if this happened, so you could react?

JackbyDev ,

Only if you directly use their instance.

cupcakezealot , (edited )
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

just remember to be honest with the police and give your real name, Robert’); DROP TABLE Prisoners;–

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Naughty Bobby!

redditReallySucks ,
@redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Please tell me this never worked for the sake of humanity

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

little bobby tables destroyed his schools records. :(

BlackPenguins ,

Oh you overestimate the government. Many systems still running on XP. Our government contracts for our company software are still on versions from 13 years ago.

Flax_vert ,

192.168.1.420

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

8.00.8.5

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

yes sir, my ip is 8.8.8.8

RacoonVegetable ,

Mine is 9.9.9.9

fxt_ryknow ,

Wait… Mine is 9.9.9.9, too!

mindbleach ,

IngloriousBasterds.gif

doctorcrimson ,

Technically even with that list the studios have no power to do anything about it. It’s illegal to redistribute other people’s property, but most of those distributors are already running a virtual machine behind a strict NAT behind a VPN behind another VPN so good fucking luck, Hollywood.

The people merely discussing piracy have done no wrongdoings in the eyes of the law. Get fucked.

In fact, the Copyright Act of 1976 bans redistribution but not obtainment itself, so as long as you’re not sending what you stole to other people you haven’t broken a single law.

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