physical media is a physical it’s a finite item. digital media can be copied infinitely

the reason why physical media is getting harder and harder to find is because the copyright nazis can’t control it. If they want to memory-hole a scene, they can’t change the content of that blu-ray disc with the original version on it

PIRACY IS WRONG AND IMMORAL! YOU SHOULD NEVER PIRATE ANYTHING! FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS PIRATE THINGS!

Stealing a physical item from a giant corporate store is also always morally acceptable.

not really, it makes the store lock everything up behind plexiglass creating more friction for paying customers too.

Of course, theft wouldn’t happen nearly as much if no one was desperate the survive, but even then there’d still be entitled assholes that want even more.

I mean…if the movie is good you should support it. Vote with your wallet.

the DMCA doesn’t protect the artists or any of the singers, it protects the shitty record labels and the money that the executives at those companies get

time to look up some alternatives.

Think about how many times the copyright nazis have tried to crack down on piracy and then imagine how much good that kind of effort could do if they set up sting operations to catch pedos

the new surveillance power we currently have was abused by Bush Jr, Obama (who made it more invasive), Trump, Biden, and now Trump again.

Follow the constitution you fuckers! No more spying without a warrant!

Things like PiHole, nextDNS and the desktop versions of adguard only block HTTP, FTP and POP and SMTP connections. It doesn’t block connections to advertising companies through other protocols.