The FBI Is Such A Joke...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwtqnRz7Ikc

الملخص

TLDRIn this video, Mudahar reflects on the FBI's recent actions against video game piracy, contrasting it with serious issues like human trafficking. He critiques the FBI's focus on piracy, arguing that it distracts from more pressing societal problems. Mudahar discusses the ethics of piracy, suggesting that it can be justified in cases where games are old or unavailable. He also highlights the challenges gamers face due to poor service and high costs associated with legitimate content consumption. Ultimately, he believes that piracy persists as a response to these issues, and that the FBI's crackdown is a misguided effort.

الوجبات الجاهزة

  • 😂 Mudahar uses humor to address serious topics.
  • 🎮 The FBI's focus on piracy is seen as a distraction.
  • 📉 Piracy is often a response to poor service and high costs.
  • 📚 The ethics of piracy are debated, especially for old games.
  • 💰 Mudahar argues that piracy is only a crime if you can't afford the fine.
  • 📺 Streaming services are criticized for their rising costs and inconvenience.
  • 🔍 The used games market is compared to piracy in terms of lost sales.
  • ⚖️ The case of Anthropic raises questions about fair use in AI training.
  • 🕹️ Gamers face challenges in accessing content legally.
  • 🤔 Mudahar suggests that piracy will continue as long as services remain inconvenient.

الجدول الزمني

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Mudahar expresses a need for a lighter topic after discussing serious issues like human trafficking and the Epstein case. He decides to humorously critique the FBI, highlighting their recent focus on dismantling piracy websites instead of addressing more pressing issues. He reflects on the absurdity of the FBI's timing and the credibility of their actions, especially in light of significant societal problems.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    He discusses the FBI's crackdown on piracy, mentioning the statistics they provided about downloads and losses attributed to piracy. Mudahar questions the validity of these figures and compares piracy to the used games market, suggesting that the FBI's approach oversimplifies the complexities of piracy and its impact on the gaming industry.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Mudahar shares his views on piracy, arguing that it can be ethically acceptable in certain situations, such as when games are no longer available for purchase or are very old. He raises philosophical questions about ownership and the morality of pirating content that is not accessible through legitimate means.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:17

    He critiques the current state of streaming services and the frustrations of consumers who face rising costs and fragmented access to content. Mudahar concludes by reiterating that piracy often arises from a lack of satisfactory services and that organizations like the FBI should focus on more significant issues rather than targeting piracy, which he views as a minor concern in the grand scheme of things.

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فيديو أسئلة وأجوبة

  • What is the main topic of Mudahar's video?

    The main topic is the FBI's crackdown on video game piracy and its implications.

  • What does Mudahar think about piracy?

    He believes piracy can be ethically justified in certain cases, especially for old or unavailable games.

  • How does Mudahar compare piracy to other crimes?

    He suggests that piracy is often treated as a civil crime that primarily affects those who cannot afford fines.

  • What does Mudahar say about the FBI's focus on piracy?

    He criticizes the FBI for focusing on piracy instead of more serious issues like human trafficking.

  • What are some reasons Mudahar gives for why people pirate games?

    He mentions poor service, high costs, and the unavailability of certain games as reasons for piracy.

  • What does Mudahar say about the used games market?

    He compares piracy to the used games market, suggesting that both can lead to lost sales for companies.

  • What is the significance of the AI company Anthropic in the video?

    Anthropic is mentioned in relation to a case about downloading books for AI training, highlighting the complexities of piracy laws.

  • What does Mudahar think about streaming services?

    He expresses frustration with the number of streaming services and their rising costs.

  • What is Mudahar's stance on the FBI's actions against piracy?

    He views it as a deflection from more pressing issues and a futile effort in the grand scheme of things.

  • What does Mudahar suggest about the future of piracy?

    He implies that as long as services remain inconvenient, piracy will continue to be a viable option for consumers.

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التمرير التلقائي:
  • 00:00:00
    Hello guys and gals. Me Mudahar. And uh
  • 00:00:02
    you know I need a little pallet cleanser
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    from yesterday's video. I just need
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    something to like kind of kind of calm
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    me down. All right ladies and gentlemen.
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    I've had a real black pilling few days
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    looking into human trafficking and the
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    whole Epstein stuff. But you know what?
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    You know what? I'm going to laugh at an
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    organization that I think everyone's
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    laughing at. Okay? I'm going to I'm
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    going to laugh. I'm going to have a good
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    time today. And who are we laughing at?
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    Well, the FBI.
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    Now, I know the FBI is a big
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    organization. They got a lot of
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    important things to do, okay? But it's
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    really funny to me how, you know, like
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    literally in the last few days, I feel
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    like the credibility has kind of been
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    like completely cratered at this point
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    because, you know, it's like when you
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    ask the FBI, hey, can we can we uh can
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    we can we uh look into uh releasing some
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    information, look into really
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    investigating a serious case of the
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    elites in our world and human
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    trafficking? And the FBI is just like,
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    "What?
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    Have you heard of piracy, mother?
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    Yeah, FBI Atlanta. Oh, they seize a
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    major video game piracy website. Now,
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    when I read this, I was like, man, leave
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    it to the feds to have the greatest
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    timing in the world, dude. Like, god
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    damn, what a deflection here. So, uh,
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    you know, I'm I'm somebody that in the
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    last, I would say, uh, year, year or
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    two, I I've kind of loosened my stance
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    towards things like piracy. Now,
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    obviously, as per YouTube's toos, piracy
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    is wrong. It is haram. But, as a
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    personal person, I don't think Jesus is
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    going to deny you entry to heaven or
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    something just because you downloaded a
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    ROM off the internet of a game that came
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    out like two decades ago. Okay? Trust
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    me, you're fine. There's a lot more evil
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    things that you can do than just
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    download a Super Nintendo ROM. So
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    anyways, uh the FBI dismantled the
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    infrastructure of these websites. So
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    anyways, between February 28th and May
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    28th this year, they recorded 3.2
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    million downloads occurred on plenty of
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    websites, right? And that resulted in a
  • 00:02:05
    loss of $170 million. Now, which [ __ ]
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    did they dig out to get that fact? I
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    feel like uh I feel like they did the
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    4chan math, so to speak. Now, this is a
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    green text you might have seen. Pirate
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    game. Company loses $60. Delete the
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    game. Company receives back $60. Pirate
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    the game a million time. Company loses
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    60 million and declares bankruptcy.
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    Yeah, I feel like the FBI is going on
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    with the mathematic that every single
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    person who downloads a game Yeah. Just
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    compare it to the MSRP. Boom. Lost sale.
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    Lost sale. Lost sale. Even though it's a
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    lot more complicated than that, I would
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    say if you're so against piracy, I want
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    you to remember that the used games
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    market is similar, too. I promote that
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    [ __ ] all the time. Imagine one guy
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    buying the game and then it gets traded
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    like a venerial disease five or six
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    times through the course of its
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    lifespan. Yeah, that one $60 game
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    probably uh was played by maybe five or
  • 00:03:05
    six more people, right? maybe. But
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    anyways, to go down, they really they
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    they remove certain sites like NSW2,
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    NSWDL,
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    uh big big end game. So, a lot of these
  • 00:03:17
    are Nintendo Switch ROM sites. So,
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    remember, okay, if you're if you were
  • 00:03:22
    hosting Nintendo Switch games, well,
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    you're just lucky the FBI showed up to
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    your house. There's a lot more dangerous
  • 00:03:28
    [ __ ] that could pop up, okay?
  • 00:03:31
    Those goddamn Nintendo ninjas don't
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    screw around. You also got PS4 package
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    and megaitu.com.
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    I don't know if that's some ex X-Men
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    website, but that PlayStation 4 package
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    has a lot of people who are downloading
  • 00:03:44
    games like PT, maybe Bloodborne to play
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    on an emulator or something. Yeah, if
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    you ever downloaded a game, you're a bad
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    person. You're going to go to hell.
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    These domains hosted and facilitated
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    access to the pirated video games.
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    Anyone whis visiting these websites will
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    now view a seizure banner that notifies
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    them the domain has been taken out. So
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    here I'll show you how it works. Let's
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    say we want to go to PS4package.net
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    yada yada yada. You're like damn I want
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    to download [ __ ] drive club or
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    something like that, right? I don't even
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    think they sell that game anymore. Woo!
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    Oh wait, that can't be reached. Uhoh,
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    Spaghettiio, let's go to that Nintendo
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    website. Maybe I want to download a
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    Metroid game. Uhoh, that site's been
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    seized. And yeah, that's uh that's just
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    kind of how it works, ladies and
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    gentlemen. Boom. Gamers, it is really
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    difficult to be a gamer these days. Now,
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    I loved ever since yesterday. One thing
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    I really appreciated from the comment
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    section was at least there was a lot of
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    people that really took the words I said
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    to heart there when I said when you look
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    at all these crazy, you know, like
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    coverups in politics, it's never really
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    about the left or right. It's just about
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    the elites versus the plebbeians. They
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    seek to separate. And of course, even
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    the president got ratioed on his own
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    social media platform. I think it was
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    like truth social or something. What's
  • 00:05:05
    going on, my boys? And in some cases,
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    gals.
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    [Laughter]
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    In some cases, there are some girls in
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    the audience, but mostly it's a sausage
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    fest. They're all going after my
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    attorney general. Yeah, cuz she's a
  • 00:05:21
    lying [ __ ]
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    who's doing a fantastic job. We're on
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    one team, MAGO. And I don't like what's
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    happening. We have a perfect
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    administration. The talk of the world,
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    but everyone's hurting it. They're over
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    a guy that never dies. Epstein, over and
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    over again. Yeah, man. I mean, you know,
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    if you didn't just bill your whole
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    goddamn if you didn't bill it as a major
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    talking point, people probably wouldn't
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    be talking about it. But, you know, one
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    thing that I've learned about piracy is
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    I don't even think it's really all that
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    illegal to be real with you. You know,
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    it's definitely a civil crime, don't get
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    me wrong. But sometimes I really feel
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    like a lot of these crimes only just
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    matter
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    as long as you can afford to pay the
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    fine, right? Which is what really
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    separates the elites of our world from
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    the general people they try to divide at
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    the bottom. Okay? the people that are
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    the people that have to keep fighting
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    with each other because if we stop
  • 00:06:18
    fighting with each other and just
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    collectively looked at who was causing
  • 00:06:21
    us our pain. Yeah, there's a lot of
  • 00:06:23
    people at the top that would start
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    facing the goddamn guillotines. I would
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    imagine be some French Revolution type
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    [ __ ] But anyways, for anybody that
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    doesn't know what's happened, there's an
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    AI company by the name of Anthropic. And
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    they uh basically were alleged, ladies
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    and gentlemen, for downloading around 7
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    million books. Yeah, you know, if I
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    downloaded 7 million [ __ ] ROMs off
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    the internet, I would actually imagine
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    the feds would bust through my house.
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    You know, like this movie called Hackers
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    I used to watch back in the day, there
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    was like there was a scene where like
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    this kid wakes up and the feds are in
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    his house and [ __ ] I was like, man,
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    they're going to show up to my house if
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    I download a ROM. When I was a kid and
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    I, you know, happened to download
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    something off the internet back in the
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    day, ROM sites used to say like, "Delete
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    within 24 hours." I used to think if you
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    didn't, bro, that the the the feds would
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    bust in and just take my whole family
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    away. I would be in jail as a goddamn
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    eight-year-old. You know what I mean? Uh
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    then I realized, wow, that's pretty
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    stupid the older I got. But the point
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    is, you know, piracy is really only a
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    crime that you get punished for. Uh if
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    you're not in the boys club, if you're
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    not in that elite club, if you don't
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    have the money to pay for the fine. So
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    anyways, these guys downloaded tons of
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    these books and scanned tons of books
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    and then they fed them through their AI
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    model claw to train off of that stuff
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    because that's how AI stuff works. Now
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    from what the uh you know court said,
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    the apparent judge actually said that
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    the fair use was in training data,
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    right? Like I guess you can train using
  • 00:07:56
    pirated materials because it falls under
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    fair use. Now, it's a bit of a touchy
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    case because in some ways I actually do
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    like this uh uh decision because in some
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    cases for things like the internet
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    archive and for them preserving and like
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    providing access, I think this benefits
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    them uh even though it's not a onetoone
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    like tangental connection to their case.
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    But then again, what the actual uh group
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    said was that yes, they won in summary
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    judgment for the fair use, but when it
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    came to piracy, there is definitely a
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    liability that's there. And apparently
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    in the United States, I believe when it
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    comes to damages related to piracy, I
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    believe it's somewhere around $150,000
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    per pirated work. So if you factored it
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    into 7 million, you're looking at about
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    a trillion bucks. And I don't think it's
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    ever going to happen. You're not going
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    to get any award in that capacity. If
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    anything, they will probably get hit for
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    the piracy. Maybe they'll get hit for
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    the damages. But to be fair, when you're
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    one of these big tech AI companies, you
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    just factor that in anyways. Again,
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    piracy is only a crime if you can't
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    afford the fine. And I feel like that's
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    the case for most civil crimes, right?
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    Like, do whatever you have to. As long
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    as you know you're going to be paying a
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    fine, steal everyone's data, pirate
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    whatever you want. Who gives a [ __ ]
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    Now, when it comes to video game piracy,
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    just in the context of game
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    preservation, I am 100% supportive of
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    it, but there's caveats to what I just
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    said. There's really two cases where I
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    think it's actually totally ethically
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    fine. One of them is when you have a
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    game that you cannot purchase. Like for
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    instance, there's a lot of games that
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    don't release fully on disk or games
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    that have insane DRM or online only
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    attachments that prevent you from
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    actually owning a game once the game
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    company takes that server away or
  • 00:09:47
    whatever. I think in that case, if the
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    game is piratable, I really don't see a
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    problem. If you can't own something, can
  • 00:09:54
    you really even pirate it? It's a really
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    good philosophical question that I see
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    asked all the time on Reddit. Okay? And
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    and trust me, I feel like out of the
  • 00:10:01
    only questions I see there, it's one
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    that really makes me think is if you
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    can't buy something, if you can't truly
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    own something, can you even actually
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    pirate it? And the other example is when
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    you're dealing with like a really old
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    game like from 20 years ago, like, you
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    know, if I want to play something that
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    doesn't get sold out on the market, like
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    a Dragon Quest game on the PlayStation 2
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    that doesn't get sold out on Steam or
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    any of these platforms. Is it really
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    wrong to pirate a game that's so old and
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    not even sold anymore if at the end of
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    the day Square Enix or even the
  • 00:10:36
    developers don't actually benefit from
  • 00:10:38
    your sale? You know, if only the only
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    person benefiting is Jim Bob selling the
  • 00:10:43
    game for a hundred bucks on eBay. You
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    know, I'm going to look at do I give
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    this random person $100 for a PS2 game
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    that doesn't even benefit the original
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    creator or do I just go to a website and
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    get an ISO file? I don't know what makes
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    more logical sense, what's actually more
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    convenient. Okay, wait 3 days for it to
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    be shipped or wait 3 minutes for it to
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    be shipped digitally?
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    There's a lot of questions. All right,
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    there's a lot of things you kind of have
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    to ask yourself. Now, again, throughout
  • 00:11:15
    this whole video, I just want to preface
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    this. I am not condoning or endorsing or
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    teaching you how to pirate stuff ever.
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    But I think it's interesting we live in
  • 00:11:24
    a world where I feel like piracy has
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    become such a necessity or it's becoming
  • 00:11:30
    a needed necessity because one of the
  • 00:11:32
    things that I always really liked was
  • 00:11:34
    that one quote, I think it was from Gabe
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    Newell where he's like, you know, piracy
  • 00:11:38
    is usually a service problem, right?
  • 00:11:39
    like at some point, you know, piracy was
  • 00:11:42
    a huge issue I believe in like Russia. I
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    believe in a lot of Eastern European
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    countries and it still is. And so what
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    happened was I believe at the time Valve
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    came into their storefront and they were
  • 00:11:52
    like, "All right, we'll regionally price
  • 00:11:54
    our games. So they're going to be more
  • 00:11:55
    affordable to the average salary in this
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    area. We're going to be providing a
  • 00:11:59
    digital distribution service that is
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    more convenient than a lot of these
  • 00:12:03
    pirate websites. And generally speaking,
  • 00:12:05
    when you download from us, you in theory
  • 00:12:07
    shouldn't be exposed to things like
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    malware. So they created a great
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    service. They created something that was
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    appealing to that market. And that
  • 00:12:14
    market rewarded them with actual money.
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    And then it became, you know, a place
  • 00:12:18
    where developers or publishers weren't
  • 00:12:20
    just losing a sale. They actually had
  • 00:12:22
    the avenue of making money through
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    there. Okay? And that's one of the
  • 00:12:26
    important parts about piracy. Now, one
  • 00:12:28
    of the things that I like doing is when
  • 00:12:29
    I like working on stuff, whether I'm
  • 00:12:31
    coding, whether I'm like playing a video
  • 00:12:33
    game or recording a video or editing a
  • 00:12:35
    video, sometimes I like to have [ __ ]
  • 00:12:37
    playing on my screen. And one of those
  • 00:12:39
    things is South Park. And it's kind of
  • 00:12:41
    hilarious because, you know, literally,
  • 00:12:43
    if you haven't been following, they have
  • 00:12:45
    had a rights battle for the last few
  • 00:12:47
    days. the creators of the show and the
  • 00:12:50
    platform distributors have been having
  • 00:12:52
    beef to the point where the entire show
  • 00:12:55
    is actually entirely removed from parts
  • 00:12:58
    of the world. So, for instance, if you
  • 00:13:00
    go to like South Park, for instance,
  • 00:13:01
    they'll just straight up tell you,
  • 00:13:02
    "Guys, this merger we're in is a [ __ ]
  • 00:13:06
    show and it's [ __ ] up South Park.
  • 00:13:09
    We're at the new studio working on new
  • 00:13:12
    episodes, and we hope the fans get to
  • 00:13:14
    see them somehow." So even in this case,
  • 00:13:17
    the creative in this situation is just
  • 00:13:19
    making their stuff. But except the
  • 00:13:21
    distributor, the rights holder, the
  • 00:13:24
    streaming platform is just so awful to
  • 00:13:27
    work with that it's ruined the entire
  • 00:13:29
    experience for everyone. And that's the
  • 00:13:31
    thing that I also hate too is like the
  • 00:13:33
    amount of streaming services that we
  • 00:13:35
    have to basically be exposed to. Okay? I
  • 00:13:38
    [ __ ] hate how many streaming services
  • 00:13:40
    are in the market. It used to be you had
  • 00:13:42
    [ __ ] Netflix. Maybe you had something
  • 00:13:45
    else, but I feel like everything is a
  • 00:13:46
    goddamn service. And I'm not going to
  • 00:13:48
    turn this into a goddamn like ad for
  • 00:13:50
    like one of those services where they
  • 00:13:52
    teach you how to like cancel your
  • 00:13:53
    subscriptions, but look in your
  • 00:13:55
    subscriptions. Look how much money you
  • 00:13:57
    spend every month. You might actually
  • 00:14:00
    forget that you're spending maybe like a
  • 00:14:01
    hundred bucks a month or like 50, 60, 70
  • 00:14:04
    bucks on multiple different streaming
  • 00:14:07
    services combined, right? And the fact
  • 00:14:09
    that, you know, one streaming service
  • 00:14:11
    used to be like 10 bucks one year and
  • 00:14:13
    then like the next year it jumped up to
  • 00:14:15
    $20, 25 bucks because, you know, all the
  • 00:14:18
    prices are just going up across the
  • 00:14:20
    board. Yeah. It's a pretty expensive
  • 00:14:22
    world to be in. I remember being
  • 00:14:24
    younger, you know, looking at like cable
  • 00:14:26
    TV services. My parents bitched about
  • 00:14:28
    it. They were like, "Why does cable TV
  • 00:14:31
    cost so [ __ ] much a month?" And then
  • 00:14:33
    I remember when Netflix came out,
  • 00:14:34
    they're like, "Whoa, hold on, pal. You
  • 00:14:36
    get to watch all of your movies and TV
  • 00:14:39
    shows at any time you want. You can just
  • 00:14:42
    stream them. And it was like what maybe
  • 00:14:45
    like $8.99 a month or something when it
  • 00:14:47
    came out. Amazing deal. All right.
  • 00:14:49
    Immediately cable was useless. It's like
  • 00:14:51
    why would I choose to go with a cable
  • 00:14:53
    service and watch whatever [ __ ] they
  • 00:14:56
    threw that day or I could just watch
  • 00:14:57
    from a catalog of stuff that was
  • 00:14:59
    generally interesting. Maybe not always
  • 00:15:01
    good, but at least it was a whole bunch
  • 00:15:03
    of stuff that I could watch. And uh
  • 00:15:06
    yeah, that's when I jumped into it. And
  • 00:15:07
    then of course, every other streaming
  • 00:15:09
    service came by. You know, it's crazy
  • 00:15:11
    that anytime I want to watch a specific
  • 00:15:13
    show, I have to go to a certain
  • 00:15:15
    different streaming service. Sometimes
  • 00:15:17
    it could be [ __ ] Crave. Sometimes it
  • 00:15:19
    could be Paramount. Sometimes it could
  • 00:15:21
    be Netflix. You know what? How about how
  • 00:15:24
    about this for you? Okay. Sometimes when
  • 00:15:26
    you're watching a show like Parks and
  • 00:15:27
    Recreation, the funniest thing for me on
  • 00:15:30
    Amazon Prime Video, and the only reason
  • 00:15:32
    I have Prime Video is because my mom has
  • 00:15:34
    Amazon Prime. So, I just like log into
  • 00:15:36
    her account to watch a few episodes and
  • 00:15:38
    like literally they have certain
  • 00:15:40
    episodes in this show that are just not
  • 00:15:42
    on Amazon Prime. So, you have to you
  • 00:15:45
    have to go to a pirate website to watch
  • 00:15:47
    a [ __ ] show because the right holders
  • 00:15:50
    are absolute [ __ ] [ __ ] It is
  • 00:15:54
    insanity. You know, we've gotten to a
  • 00:15:56
    point where like even if you pay for a
  • 00:15:57
    subscription service, the amount of ads
  • 00:15:59
    you have to see like Amazon Prime feels
  • 00:16:02
    like cable television. Okay, you put on
  • 00:16:04
    an episode of Parks and Recreation,
  • 00:16:06
    you're getting the same ad placements
  • 00:16:08
    you would get on cable [ __ ]
  • 00:16:10
    television. Okay, and at this point, all
  • 00:16:12
    right, I am just kind of done with it.
  • 00:16:14
    Anytime I come across TV shows that do
  • 00:16:17
    this kind of unnecessary behavior, it's
  • 00:16:19
    so tempting. It's so tempting to find a
  • 00:16:22
    website that offers this kind of stuff
  • 00:16:23
    for free. But generally speaking, I'm
  • 00:16:26
    not here to promote that. I'm just here
  • 00:16:27
    to just kind of talk about piracy a
  • 00:16:29
    little bit and just this general attack
  • 00:16:32
    on the entire piracy world which is
  • 00:16:34
    really funny because a couple of years
  • 00:16:36
    ago what I found was really interesting
  • 00:16:38
    was that apparently in 2017 it came out
  • 00:16:42
    that the EU suppressed this 300page
  • 00:16:44
    study that actually even found out that
  • 00:16:47
    you know piracy didn't really harm sales
  • 00:16:49
    all that much. Now you can read this all
  • 00:16:51
    for yourself. It's literally 300 pages
  • 00:16:53
    of this entire hund this report that was
  • 00:16:57
    done basically looking at you know
  • 00:16:59
    movies, video games, music, so on and so
  • 00:17:02
    forth. And according to this they said
  • 00:17:04
    that inside the only negative link the
  • 00:17:07
    report found was with major blockbuster
  • 00:17:10
    films. The results show a displacement
  • 00:17:13
    rate of 40% which means that for every
  • 00:17:15
    10 recent top films watched illegally,
  • 00:17:18
    four fewer films are consumed legally.
  • 00:17:20
    But the report concluded in general the
  • 00:17:23
    results do not show robust statistical
  • 00:17:25
    evidence of displacement of sales by
  • 00:17:28
    online copyright infringements. That
  • 00:17:30
    does not necessarily mean that piracy
  • 00:17:32
    has no effect, but only that the
  • 00:17:34
    statistical analysis does not prove with
  • 00:17:37
    sufficient reliability that there is an
  • 00:17:40
    effect. But yeah, it's just funny to me
  • 00:17:41
    when I read this kind of stuff and it
  • 00:17:43
    just it just comes across that really it
  • 00:17:46
    feels like uh a lot of these big
  • 00:17:48
    agencies like the RAIA, the whole like
  • 00:17:50
    copyright firms out there, the legal
  • 00:17:52
    firms that represent some of these
  • 00:17:53
    organizations and law enforcement
  • 00:17:55
    agencies spend so much time to try and
  • 00:17:57
    destroy something that literally would
  • 00:17:59
    not exist if the services provided would
  • 00:18:02
    just actually be better. You know, the
  • 00:18:04
    older I got, the less I actually
  • 00:18:05
    pirated. Like, I'm not going to deny it.
  • 00:18:07
    When I was a kid, you know, piracy is
  • 00:18:08
    something that everyone did because we
  • 00:18:10
    just didn't have the disposable income
  • 00:18:12
    to buy anything. And the older I got,
  • 00:18:14
    the more it became that maybe it's just
  • 00:18:16
    a test out if like a game was actually
  • 00:18:18
    functioning well on the PC or if it was
  • 00:18:20
    even worth buying. Kind of like a demo,
  • 00:18:22
    if you will, an unofficial demo. But
  • 00:18:24
    again, now with like things like Steam
  • 00:18:26
    refunds, again, a good service, you
  • 00:18:28
    know, I don't really have a need to
  • 00:18:29
    mostly pirate a video game. I can just
  • 00:18:31
    kind of test them to see if they work.
  • 00:18:33
    Uh, and if they don't work technically,
  • 00:18:35
    then that's a good refund. And again,
  • 00:18:37
    piracy exists not just because people
  • 00:18:40
    want free [ __ ] I mean, there's
  • 00:18:41
    definitely people that do not have any
  • 00:18:43
    desire to spend money on stuff, but it
  • 00:18:46
    exists because you have just made it so
  • 00:18:49
    annoying to be a video gamer that wants
  • 00:18:51
    to own their games. You have made it so
  • 00:18:53
    annoying
  • 00:18:55
    to consume movies, music, television
  • 00:18:57
    shows without things constantly showing
  • 00:18:59
    up and off streaming services or digital
  • 00:19:02
    platforms to a point where people are
  • 00:19:04
    jumping on to literally illicit ways in
  • 00:19:07
    order to actually consume their content
  • 00:19:09
    because in some cases those illegal
  • 00:19:12
    sites probably provide a better
  • 00:19:14
    experience in some weird way. But that
  • 00:19:17
    being said, ladies and gentlemen, all
  • 00:19:18
    things considered, I think it's funny to
  • 00:19:21
    go back to the beginning that, you know,
  • 00:19:23
    organizations like the FBI when they're
  • 00:19:25
    under so much pressure because of this
  • 00:19:27
    Epstein nonsense.
  • 00:19:30
    If all else fails, take down a pirate
  • 00:19:33
    website. Show people that we're actually
  • 00:19:35
    doing something. You know, taking down a
  • 00:19:37
    pirate website isn't going to do
  • 00:19:38
    anything worth a damn because any of
  • 00:19:41
    those sites have already have been
  • 00:19:43
    replaced by other alternatives out
  • 00:19:45
    there. Literally, you're playing the
  • 00:19:47
    most useless game of whack-a-ole. And if
  • 00:19:49
    I was the FBI, if I was any of these
  • 00:19:52
    organizations, I would probably try to
  • 00:19:54
    salvage whatever reputation I had and
  • 00:19:56
    release information on people actually
  • 00:19:59
    harming human beings in a very tangible
  • 00:20:02
    way. Not somebody downloading a ROM of a
  • 00:20:04
    video game. Guys, I'm sorry. That's not
  • 00:20:07
    the most danger. That shouldn't be the
  • 00:20:09
    most pressing concern. But what do I
  • 00:20:11
    know? You know, if you like what you
  • 00:20:13
    saw, please like, comment, and
  • 00:20:14
    subscribe. Dislike if you dislike it. I
  • 00:20:16
    am out.
الوسوم
  • FBI
  • piracy
  • video games
  • human trafficking
  • ethics
  • content consumption
  • streaming services
  • AI
  • Anthropic
  • gaming industry