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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 145 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (35 children)

lol, copying isn’t theft. You already had to download a copy just to view it. That’s how websites work.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
If you copy something you are not entitled to because of copyright, it's copyright infringement.
With theft the originally owner loses what is stolen, with copyright infringement the owner only loses the license fee for 1 copy.

Not the same thing, and calling it theft is purely a propaganda term invented by the media industry.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It should also be noted that copyright laws usually have all sorts of exceptions for fair use such as satire, education, etc. Typically, keeping and even using a copy without permission is legally allowed under certain circumstances.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 16 points 6 months ago

With theft the originally owner loses what is stolen, with copyright infringement the owner only loses the license fee for 1 copy.

There used to be an anti-piracy lobby group in Australia literally called "Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft". I always had an issue with their name since they were really against copyright infringement, not "copyright theft" which is just a nonsense term like you said. It's been ruled several times by courts both in Australia and in the USA that it can't be called "theft" (e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2013/12/02/surprise-mpaa-told-it-cant-use-terms-piracy-theft-stealing-during-hotfile-trial/).

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[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 6 months ago (8 children)

ah, yes, the right click menu

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Funny because Inspect offers all the stealing tools

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

This is why Apple pushed so hard for 1-button mice

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[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 111 points 6 months ago (2 children)

All this does is infuriate actual users trying to use your site. Content thieves will just download it via a script or curl and you won't be able to do anything about it.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 110 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I always found these anti-right-click scripts funny since they usually don't block Ctrl+S to save the page, Ctrl+U to view source, or Ctrl+P to print (or these days, F12 to open the browser dev tools)

[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 55 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My personal favorite is Ctrl+Shift+C which brings up Dev tools in selection mode, so you can click on the picture or whatever and be taken straight to its HTML code.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Ooooh as a developer I am very grateful for this tip

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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

Shift + right-click will override all this BS in Firefox.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

JavaScript is no match for wget -r.

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[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 23 points 6 months ago

I just turn off JavaScript and then right click works again.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I can take a screenshot and then have it automatically OCR the text. Hell, I can take a picture with my phone of my chicken scratch handwriting and have it OCR.

And as someone who remembers buying OCR software from OfficeMax for $40 that barely worked, that's pretty amazing.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 91 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 months ago
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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 79 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Audiophile equipment is just magic crystal bullshit for pseudointellectuals.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To an extent yes but it's essentially just extreme deminishing returns

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

there are both categories.
Some things are marginally better and incredibly expensive.
Other things, such as garden hose power snakes and these "audiophile crystals" are just pure scam.

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[–] Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 60 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In my whole life I never bought digital audio or video content on vinyl, VHS, CD, DVD, Blueray. Never ever. It sounds as weird to me like paying for air to breath.

But one day I visited a live concert of a small band which I loved as a teenager. After the show I met with their drummer, gave him €200 cash and said "You know, when I was young you were cool about kids copying your music without paying. You told us if we like you music we can enjoy it. And if we can afford it, we can pay you. Back then I couldn't. Today I can."

And so I paid them five times as much as I saved back then by copying their music.

[–] maculata@aussie.zone 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You are a very good person.

This is utterly irrelevant to people copying multi-million sales dickshits like Metallica.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

I bet Lars would have declined the money and ask for your info then sued.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago (13 children)

That used to be fairly common 10-15 years ago.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was about to give some empathy for the dude but their articles are trash and they would be lucky if we stole them.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 6 months ago (8 children)

you focus on that popup and ignore all the crank shit that is on this page

yes a piece of granite (?) with $60 pricetag put on my amplifier COMPLETELY changes how my vinyls sound like

statements dreamed of by the utterly deranged

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Right click?? Why did we ever need a second or third or seventeenth button anyway?

They have played us for absolute fools

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

He should just ask for a donation. His work isn't that valuable

[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 34 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Considering they think putting rocks on top of your playing equipment changes the sound, their work has negative value.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Technically, a weight on top of AV equipment's cases will change the resonant properties of the chassis but that does not produce audible effects unless it's on the speaker cone. The author considers this and dismisses the possibility because “rocks not heavy enough”.

Also, a sufficiently large rock will affect the performance of any Hi-Fi equipment.

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Instructions unclear. Used boulder. No more sound comes out.

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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes I think the whole industry of audiophile is just a bunch of baloney. Reminds of chifi IEM the KZ ZEX pro or something where people were praising for the improve sound and more drivers. Turns out only 1 driver is used and the rest are just there to justify increase in the price. It being no different than their cheaper version.

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[–] garyyo@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

looks like its just setting some events, these two lines should clear the anti-select and the anti-right click respectively if pasted into the debug console:

document.body.onselectstart = undefined
document.oncontextmenu = undefined
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[–] Kindness@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 months ago

Probably the source of their problem:

Copyright Infringement – Outing – dasklang.com, isecope.com, headgamesonline.com and technocratsblog.com

As I See It, News, comments & Information

Apr 16, 2019

Recently I have discovered my review work (1) and show reports taken and reproduced without my permission by four websites, one of whom took the material down when asked – they should not have reproduced it in the first place. When approached they said ‘sure that is how the net works, I am helping you by doing this’. No you are not, you are only helping yourself dasklang.com (2), creating traffic to your site off the back of my work not your own. How would you like it if I reproduced the design of your products ? Then told you my doing so was helping you. You wouldn’t.

I was going to let this go, but why should I? I have struggled personally to try and put some content on my site, battled reviwers burn out and other issues. Content that in many cases I have paid for out of my pocket to write about, not items loaned by manufacturers or distributors, but products I had bought, sometimes simply to write about them. However even if I had not parted with my money, my time and effort is worth something surely? Worthy of respect that I would at the very least be offered a chance to give my permission as to how my work is used, and where. None of these websites asked, they took what wasn’t theirs to use, to put content on their sites.

The websites that still have my material up without permission are isecope.com, headgames online and technocratsblog.com, all three I suspect are linked.

As they are watching this site maybe after being named and shamed they will remove the material. I doubt it, I guess I will have to go after them with DMCA’s and report to their web-hosts.

[–] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago

Can someone in a country that doesn't give a crap about his country's copyright laws wget that whole site for me?

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/26/01/2018/audiophile-rocks-down-the-rabbit-hole-once-again/

just in case someone feels like right-clicking. (CTRL+Shift+K opens the console in Firefox, but shht)

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[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is a 100% chance this warning correlates with the actual content on this site being hot garbage

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This was more or less standard 20 years ago!

Even disabling the ability to select text and sometimes also dissabling the Ctrl + C shortcut!

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 months ago

I run NoScript and I can right-click just fine.

[–] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Isn't there a browser extension to prevent exactly that? Like, "Allow right click"?

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No need, at least on Firefox you can hold down shift (or alt? I never remember) + right click to bypass such restrictions

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Can confirm, just tested it on that site and it works (it's shift).

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago

Looks like a prolapsed anus from hell.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago

How hilariously useless.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Mildly amusing.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 months ago

flashback to my first website in the 90s that put cute messages on right click.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 months ago

brb going to host a duplicate site under a dubiously duplicated domain name.

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