@yaldi @notstavvers ... these 4k-torrenting criminal nerds, or "forkorrentiminerds" ...

@yaldi @notstavvers Streaming 4k videos over bittorrent is what they/we do if 4k makes sense.

Personally I try to find 480p but will usually fall back to 720p when 480p is underseeded or nonexistent.

@yaldi @notstavvers don't worry, plenty of millennials do that too

@yaldi @notstavvers what boomers.

@fade @notstavvers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrDt9a0q3P0

@TonyJWells @notstavvers I declare this comment the winner of the thread.

@eldritchanchovy @notstavvers came here to make this joke, boosting it

@notstavvers p.s. wildly, if we could watch what we want, when we want, where we want... we'd probably pay a lot of money for it.

But no amount of money can buy that. Because that fantastic user experience *does not exist* in the market. You can only get it through piracy.

Can't stop the signal.

@drV @notstavvers
69% of striminals *admit* to at least one form of piracy

@floppyplopper @drV @notstavvers criminal statisticians refer to it as a "NICE" ratio

@cstross @notstavvers mein erster selbst ausgesuchter Bildschirmhintergrund 😍 (damals auf Windows ME )

@cstross @notstavvers Some discussion in Germany of making the analogy more precise by codifying copyright infringement as "digital violence" (digitale Gewalt) so that presumably these five traits of pirates are treated commonly:

• murder
• robbery
• rape
• kidnapping
• copyright infringement

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/05/germany-wants-to-include-copyright-infringement-under-its-planned-digital-violence-law/

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/justizministerium-urheberrechtsverletzungen-sind-jetzt-digitale-gewalt/

@Arpie4Math @cstross @notstavvers Those are all traditional traits of pirates, I'll give them that 🤷‍♂️

But yah, I'm so glad I don't live in Europe, especially the UK, that place is an open air panopticon.

@cstross
I am entertained by the typo!
@notstavvers

@clacke
"YOUR'RE" has an additional R.

@cstross @notstavvers Ha, I remember this meme from the early Micro$oft vs Linux wars in the late 90s / early 2000s.

Here's the original (I think) image, which I kept all those years for unknown reasons

@scrat @cstross @notstavvers right wing people love to threaten us with a good time.

@ShadowInTheVoid @scrat @cstross @notstavvers

Exactly... It is unclear why this is a bad thing

@scrat @cstross @notstavvers
I still have the original of that poster hanging on my wall! It was by a long-defunct web site called "Modern Humorist", circa 2000, and the original was the MP3 version with "a reminder from your recording industry". The "Microsoft" thing was someone else's later, less funny mod.

@jwz @scrat @cstross @notstavvers I was just going to say, I remember the original poster being about MP3s... and then a reliable source with much more info shows up 😎👍

@jwz @scrat @cstross @notstavvers

@evilmicrowizard @jwz @cstross

I'm pretty sure there was a version that mentioned downloading MP3s as well.

@evilmicrowizard @jwz @cstross
Found it:
https://twitter.com/museumsound/status/1231865042469040128

@phlebas @jwz @cstross Yup, that's where I got my copy just now as well 😎👍

@jwz @scrat @cstross @notstavvers Huh I didn't know that, neat.

@jwz @cstross @notstavvers Thanks, I didn't know the mp3 variant came first.

Good old Napster times, I miss them. 😄

@jwz Interesting. So the MP3 one at wandering.shop/@cstross/110383… is probably a modification of the open source one, which was a modification of the original mp3 one (sans typo).

@scrat @cstross @notstavvers

@scrat @cstross @notstavvers An open source is like a fortress with no walls.

@scrat @cstross @notstavvers
I think the original was "when you pirate MP3s, you're downloading communism." (But I could be wrong.) There was also a version form the other side: "When you pay for MP3s, you're rocking out with The Man" (or similar).