This reminds me of a video i saw where some dude in cuba hosted his own "netflix" and it had a truckload of pirated content.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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They wouldn't be able to pay the creators due to sanctions anyways. Could be seen as a positive because it allows the creators to put pressure on the US to lift the sanctions on the country.
It's also completely fine under all international law.
Following copyright law is more like a trade agreement, so if you feel wronged enough as a nation it's completely uncontroversial to suspend all or all international copyright law and deal with the consequences (mainly the us being very salty about it).
The EU contingency for a US attack on Greenland for example is among other steps to suspend all US copyrights recognition and starve the US service industry.
I'm in the EU. I was anti-piracy in the past. It took Trump's threats to our territory for me to stop paying any streaming services and actively engage in piracy.
Now the money goes to the seedbox hosts outside the US instead of disney or netflix. I also started using ad-blocker for youtube instead of paying.
I don't think this is fair towards the content creators but i just can't bring myself to give the US companies any money unless i absolutely have to. I will keep doing this until the US changes its laws/constitution to disallow someone like Trump from threatening their allies, oh and plus until they apologise and promise not to do it again.
Not only will i not give them money, i will aim to cause them economical harm.
I was anti-piracy in the past.
Hopefully you realize the error of your ways and the vast damage done by the violent control of free information. The hegemonic narrative around "ownership" serves capitalism, not humanity.
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cuban here, can confirm, you could see the latest movies
You live in Cuba? I'd love to know what your life is like.
not anymore, I left a few years ago but I still go there to visit family
Please open an Ask Me Anything thread! I know nothing about daily life in Cuba and I'd be super curious
Yes I would also like this!
How are they holding up?
Seconding the other person. I am deeply curious about learning about Cuba, whether you currently live there or not. I understand if you don't want to talk openly because of flame wars in comment sections, but I'd love to DM, or move the conversation to a different community if needed.
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I've seen better crops during the Irish famine
And yet, I've not seen a better comment in a good while!
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If all the ai clankers can do it I have no problem with Cuba doing it. Hell if it's from a studio that bent the knee to trump, it should be encouraged to everyone, expecally for countries tired of the USA
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Same for Iran :)) We have no copyright so there are official platforms like netflix with all pirated movies and the national tv shows pirated movies constantly. Also, not a single person buys windows or office licenses here :))
No one buys legitimate windows or office licenses anywhere, lol (except for corporations, I guess)
Depends if you count OEM licences that came with their device as purchases, which would be the vast majority of people.
I gave my Linux laptop to my brother and that fucker bought a separate retail copy of windows (because it'd be stealing otherwise). I'm ashamed to be related to that fucker.
Sorry it was six years ago. I'm told to let it go, but I just don't understand.
Never let go.
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In a stolen font
YOU WOULDNT STEAL A SHITTY OPERATING SYSTEM
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Imagine if they focused on creating tools that could jailbreak iOS devices, John Deere tractors, HP printers, etc. I bet they could sell that as a service. What could the US or American companies do to stop them? They could be Disenshittification Island.
Jesus Christ. How many times have the USA done something like this? And how many times are they currently doing something like this?
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That's exactly what Cory Doctorow has been advocating for
I am personally betting a lot that this is where it's going (career development-wise, not prediction markets, ugh)
US tech has been absolutely awful and stagnating for awhile. It's one thing to continue to deal with it when it's actually offering good value, but it's not. Between the data sovereignty concerns and tariffs, the EU is positioned to jolt its own tech market if it's ready to take the opportunity, and I think they are.
I'm not sure I'd expect anything big or grand, much like the "year of the Linux desktop" I don't know that there will really be a breaking moment. Just slow building of momentum in that direction. And that's all it really takes, once that momentum takes hold it's not going to start flowing back to Microsoft. These greedy corporations overplayed their hand, they broke the agreements, and now there's really no going back.
So I hope ...
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How dare they after being treated so greatly by the US over the last decades? 😭
Probably a good way to spread American culture into the country... Sweden has become super Americanized just because of American movies.
My wife is Dutch and thinks that all American high schools look like an ivy league university and have students that look like they're 20 walking around having sexy dramatic adventures. 🙈
Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want those kind of dreams it's Californication...
Im british, many younger people use American terms and have bits of American accents.
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And again… sad Finnish noices
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Cropped it for you.
Do they have an official web stream? I think protonvpn has Cuba as a location, it would be interesting to see. lol
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Imagine being incharge of national piracy
Such a flex🗿
I'll drink a cuba libre to that!
I do that too!
A non-profit community service.
We need an international digital media co-op library.
Anyone can upload/donate their digitally owned content and share ownership with the community... Or people can pool funds with the community and it can buy digital content as a non-profit co-op with shared ownership and access. Then use private torrents to decentralize data hosting and improve streaming to members.
Imagine Netflix as a non-profit digital library.
Movies, TV shows, eBooks, magazines, and music.
Maybe Cuba would be willing to host it's main office?
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Based and Cuba pilled
I believe Iran and other sanction countries would be doing the same? I see no drawbacks
it's pretty much every country outside of the western hegemony.
any manufacturing city will have markets filled with factory overstock from various brands they produce for. it's perfectly normal.
copyrights and trademarks do not exist in places where they are not enforced
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Based
same in iran
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