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And how do they make their money?

Because hosting shit yourself isn’t free, and most people aren’t up for taking financial losses for their projects.

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There is no confirmation that this came from Nintendo, nor does it list the actual infringing parts like a normal takedown request should.

PC games. Too much of a worry about malware for that nonsense.

It’s not that they can’t read, it’s that you didn’t put enough info in there to distinguish it from the genuine article.

If, for example, I were to satirise an antivaxxer over text (like here!) without being able to use any giveaway symbols like /s or alternate casing, I would have to go for the most batshit insane example, to the point where its not funny, just stupid. Something like ‘I got vaccinated and turned into a fucking velociraptor. Jurassic Park is real! Don’t believe the lies!’

Fair enough if that’s your humour, but if I try to go for anything more subtle than this, I can easily be mistaken for a genuine antivaxxer, because it’s not far off the BS they actually spew. In real life I can put on an exaggerated Karen voice with exaggerated resting-bitch-face and people will know I’m playing a character, rather than espousing my genuine beliefs. I can’t do that over text though, so what’s the alternative?

He’s got a point though. Shakespeare goes into painstaking details to set up contexts and the portrayal of character emotions with the limited tools he had (remember these are 15th century plays).

A Reddit/Mastodon comment has very little background information to work from. You may know the comment they’re replying to, but you don’t know the content of their character. Are they a bit of a facetious troll? Do they genuinely believe what they are writing? Chances are you’ll never know unless they explicitly state it.

Text communications also lack the nuances of vocal tones, of facial expressions, of body language. We have to explicitly state our emotions over text, and that’s something many people aren’t used to doing.

Like how I rolled my eyes when you said ‘I recommend you learn how to understand context.’, to which the main reasonable response is often ‘what context? There is too often no context that decisively points one way or another’.

He actually did. Shakespeare’s plays are meant to be portrayed by actors and not read as a book, so there is plenty of written notes for how the actors should be expressing when they say their lines.

In poorer countries, sure.

In most 1st world countries, using pirated software is basically giving groups like FAST a licence to fuck you out of business.

So what purpose does an emulator server legally speaking?

They provide compatibility for software made to run on one platform to work on another.

Providing compatibility is one of the most protected use cases of reverse engineering in US law.

And I don’t think anyone uses their car for accidents.

Lots of terrorist groups do.

Not interrupting ads like in the free version. They sure do like to push ‘suggestions’ when you open the app though

You’re going to to still have problems, owing to the fact that torrent protocol doesn’t download files sequentially (edit: some clients do have this option but it can slow your downloads dramatically). It doesn’t download the first 5 seconds, then the 5 seconds after that, but rather 5 second bits at random parts of the movie.

That’s my point though. YouTube’s audio quality is utter wank, so it’s easier to source the music through the likes of Spotify and rip it for piracy. All you need to do at that point is tamper with the watermarking. If you’re pulling the OGG Vorbis source files directly, and have access to two Premium accounts, you can rip it twice and diff it to see the areas that need to be modified

It is piracy if you make it available for others to download. Plus the concept of time shifting doesn’t really apply to on-demand media.

Because YouTube isn’t the biggest ripping source. That award goes to Spotify.

Spotify rippers are rife these days. I’ve even made my own.

And my point still stands - they CAN’T prove that those IP addresses would be from frontier.

Umm. Yes they can. Quite easily. As Frontier would have been assigned those IPs as a static set.

Legally, not really. A username is also not a person.

True, but when tied to an IP address known to be used by a suspected person, it can be used as evidence.

Also if the Reddit account is old, there’s a good chance they provided at least one piece of identifying info that further ties that account to a target.

It’s not definitive but it is a lot harder to toss out

IPs alone aren’t enough. IPs tied with usernames can be a lot more compelling.

1. running unauthorised pentests does indeed get people fired. Along with getting their managers in hot water for letting their pentesters be loose cannons. And if they’re attacking someone else while on company time, the company can be in serious legal trouble too.

2. it is rather customary for heads to roll when critical data is leaked as part of an insider attack, especially when said attack was enabled by negligent practices.

Just incase you’ve forgotten that randomly attacking people and leaking data is this kid’s MO.

Yea, but the nerds that the suits put in charge of security will absolutely recognize this kids skills.

They will also recognise how much of a potential threat he is.

The suits don’t run the security teams at most corpos.

The suits absolutely do run the security teams. Very indirectly, but they do. The suits are the ones security teams have to persuade to get any sort of funding and they can and will veto a hiring decision like this.

You are correct that in most places, the suits do not usually directly intervene. Usually there is a lead guy in the security team that handles the conversations with the suits.

In a well functioning security unit, there is some trust there but not nearly enough to hire a kid like this. A veto is seen as a politically risky manoeuvre for a suit but it would absolutely be pulled for the prospect of hiring this kid, with some frankly compelling justification that any team lead would find nearly impossible to get around.

I’ve worked in several corporations in several security teams in the past, some amazing, some god-awful with insane suit meddling.