Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ah screw it. This early in the morning you piqued my interest. So yeah why both side keep trying harder?

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Its the same kind of arms race that cybersecurity is going through, one side creates defenses, the attackers (all color hats) figure out bypasses and exploits, the defenders patch out the exploits, attackers find new exploits, defenders keep reacting, attackers keep finding new exploits, and the cycle keeps continuing. In an attempt to break the arms race, the defenders are going to turn to legislation to make engaging in the arms race illegal unless you’re certified.

    Side note but I’m not making a value judgement on either side, there are defenders protecting bad people and attackers who are justified in their attacks and have released important information out to the public, but protecting your own information from malicious attackers is also super important, stuff like login info to critical infrastructure systems or your financial details so bad actors dont open up a dozen credit cards in your name and destroy your financial reputation needed to survive in this world (fuck credit scores but they are unfortunately part of our reality.)

    Same sort of deal with copyright holders vs pirates, copyright holders are trying to protect what is legally theirs, and pirates are trying to bypass that. (Again no moral arguments here, this is just the nature of the conflict). Pirates gain access, copyright holders create more hurdles to the content, pirates gain access again, copyright does the same thing. Eventually they just keep throwing more legislation at the war to make privacy becomes increasingly expensive through the courts. At the end of the day, unlike cybersecurity, this piracy war wouldn’t exist if every piece of media created was commodified for massive profit. Steam is evidence of that.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    srsly? Because they both want what they want and neither side is giving up.

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