• Teknikal@eviltoast.org
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    I’ve never forgiven Sony for decades deleting an account with paid for expensive games on it, they claimed inactivity for 6 months and UK law meant they had to.

    No other account (with purchases) I have has ever just got deleted on me and you better believe Sony are never getting a single penny from me again.

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    Reason #56,789 of why Sony is on my permanent embargo list since 2002. They treat their customers like absolute shit. And they pay their bills.

    If Sony is involved you know it’s straight sleaze. If there was an award for most evil company, they’d be leading.

    Sony’s part of the fine was raised by a third for trying to obstruct the investigation by refusing to answer inquiries made by the EU officials and shredding of evidence during the multiple law-enforcement raids.

    From their part in the videotape price fixing snafu back some 20 years. That’s how they roll.

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      Sony would be in the running. But i think nestle would beat them on the top spot.

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        They’d both be graping each others mothers for the prize I’m sure…

        Funnily enough, my old employer hired an HR rep… formerly from Nestle. Just, wow. Like the worst kind of human I’ve ever met. Man can these shitty companies spot “talent.”

        I’m convinced to work for either, you need to film yourself eating the liver from a blind baby in your final interview.

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    Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say “um, ackchually, the constitution doesn’t say anything about access to the internet”.

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    I won’t use a phone company that listens to my calls and criticizes me for who I speak with. I won’t use an internet provider that monitors what I download or shares that info with third parties. The only other way to catch someone downloading, is if an agent of the copyright holder is uploading the torrent file.

    If you hire private security to give me free beer outside of your store, you can’t accuse me of shoplifting because I accepted the free beer.

  • BranBucket@lemmy.world
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    Cut off internet for people who pirate… Those people are now unable to stream anything… Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that… Deter no one because everyone thinks they won’t get caught.

    Good move. Smart guys.

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      We once got a letter from our isp because someone who was at our dnd game night was using our internet to download shit without telling us so that was fun.

      He stopped when we showed him the letter (he was the only guy with a laptop so it had to be him at the time)

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        In that guys defence, it’s pretty common to just have your torrent client on in the background doing its thing. He was likely unaware either until seeing the notice.

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          We weren’t super angry at him, it was more a “you can’t do that here, we don’t want the internet suing us. Cause they’d sue us, not you” and he did stop, we never got a letter again.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    ah all good…nothing is lost. everytime ppl hate murican corpos more, the world becomes a better place.

    apple making it hard to install warez, google forcing playstore,gsf and manifest3 on ppl

    everything american is always shit. period. because entire culture is built on being a shit person. dont blame tump or sony or microsoft…it is the american people that just suck all the time.

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      everytime ppl hate murican corpos more

      FYI, SONY is a Japanese multinational corporation.

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      Do not conflate the people with the corporations.

      And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.

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      I’m also an American, and this is 100% accurate. My countrymen are assholes, and the only thing they’ve ever cared about are problems that directly affect them.

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        Huh, I’m American and I’m surrounded by people who are incredibly kind and nurturing and will bend over backwards to help others. Sounds like you live in a shit part of the country if you only have assholes near you.

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        Turns out the ‘shining beacon on a hill’ and the ‘thousand points of light’ they used to talk about were all crosses burning.