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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • The copyright lobby is crazy powerful and pretty scary.

    The whole Kim dotcom raid comes to mind. At the request them, the USA strong armed authorities to storm the guys mansion in new Zealand using helicopters and raid teams, punching and kicking him while he was on the floor, holding him for a month without a bail hearing, seized his assets and trying to extradite him because people were using his storage platform to store copyrighted material - which wasn’t even against new Zealand laws at the time.

    He later brought a legal suit against them for it and it was settled under wraps and sealed

    https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-wins-settlement-military-style-police-raid-171103/

    Rights holders are also why your streaming platform prices keep getting more expensive because they just can’t control their greed. People keep complaining Netflix pricing keeps going higher for example but a big part of it is because they are being squeezed for more and more money by rights holders to have their content in their catalog