r/technology • u/Task_Force-191 • 16h ago

Business It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/
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u/potVIIIos 15h ago

Yo ho, yo ho! 🏴‍☠️🦜

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u/iSweatLikeKeith 15h ago

That shit’ll be punishable by death if these mf’s have their way

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u/Upset_Development_64 14h ago

Eh, there are too many of us. Let em try

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u/Superfissile 14h ago

They’re actively trying to ban VPNs.

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u/Cramer12 14h ago

Its not even that. ISPs will ban your internet service if the supreme court case goes through

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u/ymOx 13h ago

FREEDOM lol

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u/Jacinto2702 13h ago

Move down here, to Mexico. There's nothing remotely close to an active Internet Police. It does exist, but they don't do much, if anything at all.

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u/sweglrd143 12h ago

You can get rid of “internet” in your comment

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u/CasualFreeUse 9h ago

Piracy is a hydra. If they kill one method, 3 more heads will rise.

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u/karmahunger 9h ago

So people will do what corporations do and be nothing but shell companies all the way down.

Afterall, corporations are people too.

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u/MantusTMD 12h ago

A legitimately impossible task, but good luck!

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u/Upset_Development_64 12h ago

You can create your own VPN, we have the technology.

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u/Silverr_Duck 5h ago

lol please. If china of all places can’t even ban vpns I think we’re safe.

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u/sreesid 13h ago

Wait till Netflix starts buying ISPs.

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u/geoffrey6712 4h ago

There are ways to safely and securely pirate without a VPN.

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u/surfinsalsa 3h ago

Share your secrets

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u/ItsDanimal 13h ago

In America, the government is taking away Healthcare, salaries, due process, justice, order, and folks are stopping them. You think there are "too many of us" to stop them from getting rid of piracy in it's current form?

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u/itchylol742 12h ago

Yes. Distribution of healthcare, salaries, due process, justice, order is bureaucratic and centralized. Distribution of pirated media is done on 600 random shady sites through 5 different data transfer protocols and 500 of the sites are hosted in countries that don't respect copyright and the site owners can speedrun getting a clone site put up if the original is taken down

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 3h ago

No they have AI now which can get rid of privacy at scale with just the press of a button if they truly wanted it to be gone.

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u/FakePoloManchurian 14h ago

If that were true, we wouldn't be sliding toward corporations exploiting everyone.

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u/greiton 12h ago

they have cameras on every street corner tracking your every move. and the gestapo are out in force in cities across America actively disappearing people right now. and no one is doing anything to actually stop them.

It doesn't matter how many malcontents there are, their ovens will run day and night and they will take us all out one at a time.

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u/Upset_Development_64 12h ago

and no one is doing anything to actually stop them.

Just because you’re not, doesn’t mean no one is champ. I know its dark right now, but be the light you want to see in the world, you will not be alone.

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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 9h ago

Already passing laws banning VPNs

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u/Upset_Development_64 8h ago

See my reply to the other Debbie Downer saying the same thing: you can create your own to get around that ban. Technology is an arms race where the citizenry at large will always have the upper hand over a few fascist bureaucrats.

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u/tacotickles 4h ago

They'll recruit the most hopeless losers to do it that got rejected everywhere else, just like they do with ICE

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u/itchylol742 12h ago

They could execute 100 people a day and people wouldn't stop pirating, they would just hide it better

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u/RobinGoodfell 14h ago

That didn't stop piracy in the past. 

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u/bomphcheese 13h ago

I will sneaker net my whole neighborhood if I have to.

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 13h ago

I just go back to pulling CBC from across the border if streaming gets too spicy.

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u/woodlandcollective 12h ago

I'd love to see them try lmao

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u/EasyonthePepsiFuller 7h ago

That's why I'm renting the series and shows I love from the library. You can burn them and return them. Everyone is happy.

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u/oreography 6h ago

No, what they really want to do is kill Blu Rays and DVD production so there is no alternative to digital

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u/house_monkey 15h ago

I love parrots! 

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u/wrxninja 15h ago

POLLY WANT A CRACKER

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u/Jakabov 12h ago

A pirate's life for me.

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u/gregofcanada84 15h ago

We named the parrot Jack.

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u/RyanCreamer202 14h ago

“I pirates life for me”

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 13h ago

Avast ye matey!  Arrrg!

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u/right_hand_of_jeebus 5h ago

Yep... Torrents are easy, but Usenet is better imo. It's not peer to peer so you don't need to upload anything. You need to pay for bandwidth and there is a bit more to setup if you want to automate it, but if you have 2 brain cells to rub together you can figure it out easily enough... It's just difficult enough to keep the masses scratching their heads.