Establishing an continuing a precedent is important.
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Now that you mention indie games, I think it's important to distinguish intents and showcase how publishers are shooting themselves in the foot.
Someone who pirated an indie game (why tho?) and liked it, is more likely to pay for it because indie publishers also provide better medium to pay for the actual software, or contribute to the actual developer, with fewer middlemen and rent-seekers. If someone pirated an AAA game and liked it and wanted to buy it, their options are still limited due to one of the main reasons of having pirated the game in the first place. At prices of, like, US$ 60 lol, hey'd have to wait until a Steam supersale or smth...
They could steal your personal data without you knowing.
Hah! Like the "legal" services are much better than that!
Technically the media conglomerates should be the ones to be sued: they provide material to be pirated in the first place!
You can be ordered to log however.
Zero-knowledge protocols are important.
Nice try, fed.
Talking news and sharing links? There's lemmy for that!
No hope, no cope. Just a basic understanding on how the HTTP infrastructure and time dilation work.
You can have one or two execs, as a treat; but certainly they don't need to be paid crazy figures like what has been the case with Mozilla as of late. It's not like they're that important, in particular for the kind of project something like Firefox is (which could do with eg.: coop governance).
Okay, but what if after all this legal action Mozilla decides that it’s no longer worth serving the privacy conscious crowd? Which browser will you use then?
Firefox.
Just because the execs decide to stop serving the software, doesn't mean the copies (and source code!) already out in the wild will automagickally stop functioning. You'll still be able to visit websites the day after, the month after, the year after... And there's still the devs, since they're not the execs.
By the time there's issues, there'll still be the forks. Someone will have already step up to fork and keep the work on their own, too; the name just weighs enough that someone will want to be "the next Firefox" (not "the next Mozilla"). Or even better, the devs (obvs not the execs) will have jumped ship into any one of the various alternative projects such as ladybird, or might even have started a new project from scratch, hopefully intending for it to be a leaner and better browsr.
Nothing screams "capitalism!" louder than a geofencing over Anne Frank of all things.
This puts a whole new spin on "running out of IPv4".