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What's with the sheer number of shutdowns recently? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've never known so many shutdowns inside 2 weeks as the last two have been. Even websites pirating manga were shut down. What happened? What's with this massive legal wave of shutdowns, and why now?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because streaming services are enshittifying and too many people are sailing the seas as a result. Can’t let that happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

PerogiBoi here probably has it right. I remember during the heyday of Piracy in the early 2000's strings of sites coming down, Comcast getting busted for illegally using Sandvine to throttle or even outright block bittorrent traffic, Limewire being sued for more money than existed in the entire monetary system of the planet at the time, and corruptly buying out the courts of a foreign country so we could put The Pirate Bay admins in prison.

When people start putting on their piracy hats, they bring out the big legal guns.

EDIT: I will literally never get over Limewire being sued for more money than existed. It proved, without a shadow of a doubt, in my mind, exactly how bullshit the fines for individual copyright violations are. If piracy resulted in more money than exists... you can't prove to me that that is a lost sale. Because there literally was never enough money to have afforded the purchases to begin with.