Do we know it was actually Iran who shut it down or whether it was the US or Israel who did it instead?

A: In the US at least, it’s illegal to stream movies you don’t own or don’t have the license to stream. By participating in the co-op, when you stream a movie, ownership of that physical media and the digital copy is temporarily transferred to you.

Is it illegal to stream or is it just illegal to upload files?

Also how does ownership transfer to the user and how are they streaming physical, DRM-protected media? I would think it was the distribution company who determines who gets licenses not a coop that just happens to own a copy of the movie.

I’m not sure I see the difference between this and you just giving your friends and family access to your Plex/Jellyfin server. It seems like the same thing but with more self-imposed hoops to jump through that don’t really change the legality of anything, but IANAL.

What’s the big ring for?

Busted.

There was one posted here yesterday.

Fan of Mullvad but just be aware its not what you want if you’re using a VPN for torrenting. They had to remove their port forwarding feature due to some bad actors ruining it for the rest of us.

Its not punishing her for future pre-crime, it’s imposing a longer sentence within the sentancing guidlines in the law because she clearly hasn’t learned her lesson just like they do with every other defendent.

Another post on here today talks about how a man was sentenced to death in Texas after prosecutors introduced some of his poetry/rap lyrics talking about violence during sentencing, arguing that this speech proves he would offend again if not put to death.

What’s the difference here? This woman may not be a county clerk in the future but her working as a county clerk in the past still gives her speech on elections more ‘legitimacy and credibility’ with the general public in the future. She gets to pretend to be an authority on the subject with ‘insider knowledge’ due to her role yet the court is claiming that she’s just some regular Joe Schmo.

Or a convicted murderer telling the court that he’ll kill again can’t have a longer sentence imposed because he’s just exercising his right to free speech.

Which a $3 ESP32 can handle instead.

No the lazy take is the one that utters a thought-terminating cliche like “bOtH sIdEs” and then leaves the discussion.

Those of us that are willing to look past team-sport, tribalistic politics can clearly see the path our supposed leaders have been walking for decades that brought things to the point we’re at now and aren’t afraid to hold people accountable for it whether they’re on “our team” or not. To do otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand and giving these people a pass.