(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)

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      Damn I’d talk about it on national tv here in Australia. It’s just piracy, nbd.

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        I still don’t know how I2P would be able to mask where the packets go to or come from, even if they encrypt the contents

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          Onion-like routing. It takes multiple hops to get to a destination. Each hop can only decrypt the next destination to send the packet to (i.e. peeling off a layer of the onion).

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            Would that keep lawyers from just taking the last ip they get for their frivolous law suits? That way I could get a letter for something I actually didn’t download

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              By how the protocol is structured, it’s impossible for the address a downloader sees to know what the packet they forward actually contains, so they’re just taking the role of an ISP. Also, they don’t know the original source IP.

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              I mean, you can be sued for anything, but it will get thrown out. Like, I guess the MPAA could offer a movie for download, then try to sue the first hop they upload a chunk to, but that really doesn’t make any sense (because they offered it for download in the first place). Furthermore, the first hop(s) aren’t the people that are using the file, and they can’t even read it. If people could successfully sue nodes, then ISPs and postal services could be sued for anything that passes through their networks.

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      I love paradox games, but the amount of dlc is killing me. I love how they continue to support their games, yes, but damn.

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        And then when they do update the game, and add 20 more dollars of new dlc at the same time, if you’re someone who likes mods, well congratulations. Your installation is ruined and you can’t go back to your saved game(s) without there being some level of headache involved. At this point a high seas version of stellaris would probably be a relief, since there’s no auto updates and all dlcs. But here I am, a sucker who bought like three-quarters of the dlc over the years and can’t even play it because I’ll just be sad my last playthrough got ended prematurely with a dlc release… Fuck Paradox and all their games.

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          What are you on about? You can just turn off auto updates or revert back to previous versions.

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    i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday

    A bit late if you already told a commercial company about your piracy, as well

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    Idk abour other people but i pirate everything first and if its good i buy it. I pirated a bunch of games back in the day and bought the good ones. Terraria, geometry dash, minecraft, etc(can you tell i played on mobile lol)

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    Historical piracy was never about social justice, especially when you consider that a number of pirates during the 1600-1800s received government’s blessings to operate, so long as they didn’t attack the nation’s ships.

    Pirates simply did on sea the same thing highway robbers have been doing on land since the dawn of civilization.

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      (i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles

      yessir imma ambush my friends about signal soon