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@Doug it's the same legal principle.

@Doug do you think that Nintendo has a right to lock down its consoles so you can only play licensed Nintendo games? This is basically the same thing.

In the usual situation, Nintendo has a right to try to lock down my console and I also have a right to try to unlock it. This is also the situation we have today with adblockers.

@Doug another perspective is that there's nothing wrong with wanting everything for free.

@Doug @LinkOpensChest_wav noting that a fair subscription price for MOST websites is on the order of $1-$10 per user per YEAR.

@Doug @LinkOpensChest_wav for sites I very frequently use, I'm also happy to pay a subscription. I have been subscribed to LWN and to YouTube.

@Doug @LinkOpensChest_wav I used to think this way but so much advertising today is malware. I'm happy for sites to write simple text or image ads that won't even be detected by adblockers, much less actually blocked. It's the pile of JavaScript that's the problem, and it's the pile of JavaScript that adblockers block.

@Helldiver_M @Dubious_Fart @leraje actually the port forwarding thing is about accepting inbound connections. Without port forwarding, NAT routers (including VPNs) randomly allocate ports for outbound connections but still won't accept inbound connections on those same ports.

There's a trick where you discover the randomly allocated port numbers and then both connect to each other at the same time so both routers think it's outbound. It works unreliably and BitTorrent doesn't use it.

@Cyyris @corsicanguppy office bosses universally seem to care a lot more about your physical presence at the office, than about the work you so. Maybe they know the jobs are all bullshit jobs and they just like exercising power

@Ilandar You get penalized if you don't. In particular, if reddit decides to "lock your account for suspicious activity, please change password to re-enable" you can't do that and your account is just gone

@mrbubblesort @gsa32 no, but they'd have to answer with whatever they do have, which is your email address and IP addresses

@Sentrovasi @matey @Schooner @vis4valentine @Parched_Monkey abolish capitalism

@hoodatninja @majestictechie @vis4valentine @Kushan @charles Isn't it obvious? They want many players to have all of the content. Which is possible, because content doesn't run out if one service plays it too much.