• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    There are probably some teenagers pirating stuff right now who weren’t even alive when this comic was drawn. I’m old.

    • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Technically you can: if you distribute the comic but don’t give the attribution, you are breaking the terms of the license which is just about the closest thing to “pirating” it that you can do.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        But “breach of license” is so much more lame than “piracy!”*

        *Yes, a lot of piracy is itself breach of license, hush

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      You mean those things that get scratched all the time and not have their revenue go towards the artist anyway?

      • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Several years back, a group of friends and I gathered with our copies of the Nine Inch Nails album “The Downward Spiral.” Unfortunately, all three CDs were heavily scratched. However, by combining parts of the same songs that played well on different discs, we managed to create a complete version of the entire album.

        The record companies never gave a damn about quality.

  • owl@infosec.pubEnglish
    0·
    7 months ago

    Here is my idea: Everyone makes a private key. When they buy a song they receive the file and a digital signature by the label saying they sold it to your privatepublic key. When you are caught with a bunch of songs, you have to prove ownership using your key. Tadaa provable ownership, no blockchain, You loose the file, but still have the signature? You can download it again and all is good.

    EDIT: Of course, they would sign the public key, sorry.

    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      A digital signature from the label would be created with their private key.

      What would they be signing? Your public key plus the ID of the song? They can’t sign your private key, it’s private.

      What stops you sharing your private key and a song with a friend. Then when either of you need to provide proof, you can both show that you have the private key that matches the signed file?

      • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        Well if the record label was still around they could make ownership details public, or let you download the signed file again.

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      xkcd comics are available under a CC-By-NC 2.5 licence, so you’ve successfully pirated by not including attribution (as long as people can’t tell at a glance that it’s xkcd from the art style or comment thread you posted it to), but to seal the deal, it’d be a crime to sell it.

      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        7 months ago

        I couldn’t tell at glance this was from xkcd and am willing to testify to a jury, when’s the court date?

          • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            Whaaaat? This has to go through reporting to count?

            Maaaan, pirating things is so complex these days. I long for the days of napster and emule. </s>

  • Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de
    01·
    7 months ago

    I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can’t read them anymore.

    Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can’t complain if one day they change the encryption