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Fun fact, the url in the original ad redirects to this video because the MPA couldn’t be bothered with the domain renewal

www.piracyisacrime.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_Car

Well, let me start with this gorilla they called Harambe…

I remember this being discussed at length on various forums at the time (the legality, questions about what would happen if it all fell into the sea.) but as with so much of the Internet, it appears to have been largely lost. Luckily I was not imagining things this time and did find a couple of references.

Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation | Ars Technica

The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand * TorrentFreak

Remember when they tried to buy Sealand?

Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

Brocollini is a licensed trademark

I just don’t get how these providers (Specifically Reddit with the API lockdown and now the stranglehold on mods, Twitter’s new login requirement, and YouTube now cracking down on adblockers) are missing the point that their sites live and die by user generated content.

I understand these sites are hugely expensive to run, but if you keep alienating those who are bringing users to your site in the first place, people will stop submitting and people will stop visiting.