When you see this phrasing in English language, ‘it’ refers to the main subject of the preceding statement. In this case as a reply to the main post the subject is the “$322 Million Spotify Piracy Case”.

Same as you would download anything else.

I’m not sure what you’re buying, but I prioritize purchases of things I will actually own and therefore do own most of the things I buy.

These companies maintain that even though you possess a PDF, you still do not own it and do not have the rights associated with ownership.

It might also be from oxidation. There are a lot of ways that can happen, even directly through the walls of the tubing between the kegs and faucets if it’s the cheap kind.

Also be cognizant that in that scenario you would have benefitted greatly from a system which does immense harm to a subset of the population by exploiting addiction.

You gotta love how getting suggested content they don’t like from the recommendation engine means they’re a victim.

In reality it’s supposed to be even more strict. They’re trying to get around this by having a private company own the cameras. If the government owned the cameras, they would need to get a warrant with a sufficiently narrow target from a judge before initiating electronic surveillance to track the targets’ location.

If something is really going on which justifies it, getting a warrant is trivial and probable cause is a low bar.

Email has been a decentralized federated system from the start, though I’m not aware of any community I’d trust to be a more privacy-respecting host than the available commercial offerings.

Our legal entity is in Sweden, where the law does not allow for any government to force us to spy on our users.

You’ll agree that Proton doing better would require them to move to a different country, right?

Also Mullvad doesn’t offer email accounts, does it? Seems that they couldn’t have a ‘no user data’ policy if they did since the emails would be exactly that.

You don’t have only those two choices. Be brave and support non-fire even if a majority isn’t yet. Be part of the solution and don’t believe the lies that better options aren’t real.

Firstly, you should say please when you’re asking for something.

The claim was made as if they know exactly the materials the thugs’ gaiters are made of. Unless they are an insider of that group, it’s way too presumptuous.

Common natural or synthetic fabrics aren’t as effective at blocking modern facial recognition as anyone might assume.

Here’s a couple examples of someone putting in a bit of effort to actually test both common and purpose-built products against facial recognition.

F-Droid works […]

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[…] that’s going to severely limit the potential userbase for that package.

I don’t think most developers who are putting their Open-Source apps on F-Droid have any minimum user threshold.

Which of their actions do you think portrays a political alignment?

Someone makes a good product and then sells it in a store. Even if they do nothing else and buy no ads, a marketing wank somewhere would apparently want to take credit for the maker’s work.

Thanks for the pointer! I took the opportunity to learn a bit about more recent NNTP by reading the standard: RFC 3977. It looks like nntp v2 circa 2006 added MIME encoding, so I would guess that may be how a service provider would differentiate.

I haven’t used Usenet since the turn of the century. Back then it was all text (including every article under alt.binaries), and even pirated media needed to be split into a multi-part format (often rar) then each part uuencoded so it could be included in an article.

Does your ISP not give your router a public (even if dynamic) IP? If not, then after your router you’d be double-natted right? Yuck!

What do you consider large files? Isn’t the article size usually limited to something like 1mb (it’s been a while since I used Usenet)?

So it would technically be about the number of articles rather than the eventual size of the combined archive? At the core it’s all still text right?

My dialup ISP in the 90s included Usenet.

Not either of those, but have you seen Brax3 phone?