Saw this earlier, what do you guys think of this?

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Edit: Redditor deleted the image linked due to criticism, restored as an imgur link.

  • ptu@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Back when I was in Jordan, I visited a music store. They had a big screen on the wall with Windows Explorer open with a huge catalog of .mp3s. You could choose anything and they would burn the CD for you. Everything was clean and tidy as you would expect for a shop in a central location. Made me aware of how much legislators work to protect the rights of those few companies that own the rights.

  • rolandtb303@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    that’s the best way to put a huge “RAID ME!” sticker infront of your server room

    • ErenOnizuka@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Why? Mega is so good IMO. No speed limit, no rate limit, no time limit. Rapidshare for example limits the speed I believe to only 200 kbit/s and only allows 2 or 3 file downloads per day. Uploaded is even worse with 50 kbit/s. Fuckingfast is better regarding speed, but I believe they have a time limit, meaning after X days it gets automatically deleted.

      But there are still people who upload their stuff on that platform only. And that stuff is so niche, you can’t find it anywhere else or it simply is the highest quality.

      It would be a dream if people would upload to mega.

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      7 days ago

      This dude’s always been a weird piece of shit so somehow this isn’t even that surprising

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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      He’s speaking about a previous Prime Minister of NZ. Who’s actually secular, but has some Jewish heritage through a grandmother, but was raised Anglican, but really non religious.

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        Antisemites don’t actually care about his religion. It’s racism. Jewish heritage means Jew, which to them means evil. No Jewish heritage but in their way means secret Jew, which to them means secretly evil.

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    This guy was arrested inside his own safe with a gun. He is a lunatic. He is also obviously trying to cash out somehow, even though since 2015 he himself claims to have no ties with Mega anymore and that it has been compromised.

    Either way, Mega hasn’t been good for piracy for ages, nor is it trust worthy for private data sharing.

    • TJA!@sh.itjust.works
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      In the linked post he writes

      Full Disclosure: I’m no longer involved with Mega but it operates lawfully like Megaupload did. The fact that Mega is still online after I founded it 13 years ago shows that the case against Megaupload was political, a total Hollywood overreach and the New Zealand Govt should be ashamed for still wanting to extradite me.

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    7 days ago

    Kim dotcom is how I imagine John McAfee if he became a billionaire.

      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I briefly met him at Defcon years ago and got an immediate off putting vibe to say the least. Then I saw him get up and tell his unhinged life story which then lead to a pitch for some crypto bullshit. I wish I had saved the 60 or so seconds I spent talking to him.

      • nfreak@lemmy.ml
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        A family friend of ours knew the guy. He was even more batshit insane than the stories make him seem.

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      I see him more like the Larry Flynt of file sharing. He’s a piece of shit, but he’s also fighting for the right side.