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I am curious about something that came to my mind recently and that is, in China is it possible to pirate and how?

About China I only know about the firewall and little else, so before I say something idiotic or something that sounds very ignorant, I'd rather you enlighten me.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes it's possible. Their version of Google Drive (Pan Baidu) is basically a paradise for piracy. But it's a bit of a pain in the ass for foreigners to get access. And obviously everything is in Chinese.

China doesn't care about foreign held copyright. So anything that isn't owned by a Chinese company is fair game. As long as it isn't considered banned material of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

BaiduYun's a paradise to host pirated content but not to download. The free tier fucking limits you to double digit KBs per second and the Chinese government will arrest you if you create a script that simply uses aria2 to circumvent that (contrary to many of these Chinese arrest rumors this actually happened).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks for the information.

It reminds me that I had read that Russia doesn't care about foreign copyright either, and it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And by extension, North Korea?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Watching foreign movies is illegal north korea. They might not care about the right holders, but they certainly care about not letting their citizen watch foreign movies.