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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 71 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Well in the Social Network movie and chapter 2 of the Accidental Billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg used wget in shell scripts to get copyrighted images for private servers.

Can we give punish him?

[–] sus@programming.dev 46 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

[–] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.

[–] OwlHamster@lemm.ee 22 points 3 days ago

That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.

[–] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

and crunchyroll

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 3 days ago

No, he's part of the US oligarchy. Don't criticize too much or you might happen to have sudden, unexplainable tech problems and legal trouble. /s