KoboldCoterie

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Can't see it on desktop web.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This doesn't seem that different from paying for usenet. It's not like they're making DVDs of pirated movies and selling them on the street corner; they were basically just aggregating content and the service they were providing was making it easily searchable and accessible, not doing the actual pirating, from the sound of it, unless I'm misunderstanding the situation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I wish I could show my country next to my username or something lol.

You could use a vanity username with a flag emoji in it, if you really wanted to.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That's on average 57 per day, or 3.5 per hour if we assume 16 hours a day awake. Seems likely he just automated the process somehow, or that multiple people were making reports under his name. Or he was just submitting a report every 17 waking minutes for the entire year. Who knows.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If $70 got you the full game, I wouldn't even be as opposed to it, but it's always $70 for the standard edition and oh, also, there's $200+ worth of DLC and microtransactions to buy, as well. Back in the 90s, you got everything for that price.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 5 months ago (12 children)

They claimed that the FTC never alerted them to any wrongdoing before filing the lawsuit, so how could they have known they were violating the law?

"The police never informed me I was doing anything illegal before arresting me, so how could I possibly have known?"

Ignorance of the law isn't a defense against breaking it in any other sector...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Assuming you're making the change in your browser's default search settings, and not editing the URL every time you do a search, it takes a minute or two once, and it's done forever. No harder than adding an adblock rule and it also removes a lot of other bullshit, too (since it's just defaulting you to a 'web only' search).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Do you not? I really don't know, I don't use texts much and we've had unlimited texts for like, 15+ years. I always see 'normal carrier fees apply' on OTP notifications, so I just assumed they counted against limited plans.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

It was easier before every random website wanted to send you a text with an OTP just to log in and order a pizza or whatever.

That said, if it was $10 / mo for unlimited, or $0.02 per text, I'd take the per-text charge. I don't use texts much and I'd probably save $8 / mo or more.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just because it's an edge case doesn't mean 30% of your userbase won't encounter it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This seems to vary by state. For example, a quick google search revealed the following regulation for Texas:

  • Every room or space greater than 250 ft2 (23.2 m2) and used for classroom or other educational purposes or normally subject to student occupancy shall have not less than one outside window for emergency rescue that complies with all of the following, unless otherwise permitted by 14.2.11.1.2 [Which would not apply in this case]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Seriously, this has to violate fire codes if nothing else. There's only one point of egress, from the sound of it.

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