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Are there countries/territories where copyright law is truly unenforced? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I'm asking this out of curiosity; I don't need to host anything that can't already be done in the West

Lots of countries have very relaxed or non-existent enforcement of torrent filesharing. That's not what I'm asking.

I'm asking about what place one could openly host every known commercial pop song and every Hollywood film without any worry about being shutdown or sued.

For a reference, according to a one-minute check of Wikipedia, the only countries which haven't ratified the Berne Convention or the TRIPS Agreement in any way are Eritrea, Kosovo, Palau and Palestine. While joining these agreements doesn't imply they're enforced, it gives an idea of how widely governments do agree to intellectual property rights.

how much would it cost to launch an independent server into orbit?

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[–] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

In brazil, where I live, one could buy pirated copies of xbox 360 and ps3 games easily at local street markets during the early 2010s at broad daylight, enforcement of anti piracy on a indivual citizen level that I know of is completely unheard of, there have been cases where corporations without software licenses have been fined

it is completely normal to see computers with the activate windows water mark, I think I have seen more with the water mark than without it

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    Other Brazilian here: Although they don't care much about piracy at individual level, there were local servers seized and from time to time they take down some locally hosted sites, so although it's safe for you to download and even p2p share stuff, you can get unlucky hosting - if it's near elections and some politician needs to pretend he is having the police working.

    R.I.P. Manicômio Share

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I don't get that. It's very easy to activate illegally. There was also a free upgrade/activation route if you pretended to be blind or something like that. Think that's how I got a license.

    It's pretty obvious that MS doesn't care if you're pirating windows. Their main market is business clients and the companies/governments they're selling your data to.

    The only difficulty I ran into, is how to activate tiny10 without an internet connection.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    most people just dont want to bother activating windows, legally or not. Because what does it do? cool it removes the water mark and lets you use the customization options in the theme menu, that's not deal breaker for most.

    most of the time it is a simple case of for somereason the hardware id based windows license from the OEM not working, usually because someone decided to upgrade to the Pro edition themselves or the IT guy when asked to reinstall windows defaulted to using the Pro edition, thus the license for Home edition from hardware id doesn't work

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    To be honest, of all the countries in Latin America, Brazil is the only one I sometimes find news about the government working with some company to ban piracy sites. But as someone also in Latin America, I have no doubt that you can find pirated media in the street as easy as you can buy bread.

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