4Chan has continued to troll the UK government and Ofcom after they hit the website with fines of over $800,000, and they’re answering with more AI hamsters.
I remember they used to have an entire collection of correspondence similar to that linked on their website. Teenage me laughed his ass off at it. Now with almost all governments around the world believing they have universal jurisdiction over the Internet, I’m no longer laughing, I have to keep myself from crying about how we got to this point. :(
We got to this point by the US ruthlessly negotiating every trade deal to give its copyrights global supremacy.
This is a big problem for reverse engineering things like servicing your John Deere tractor, of interest to countries with citizens that eat food.
People are catching on, though; eventually, one country is to going to step out of this US-enforced system and there will be a legal place to hack your car so you can use the seat warmer without paying a subscription.
The U.S government pressured the Swedish government into prosecuting them and changing the laws, leading to them finally going to prison/receiving absurd fines. The circumstances around the whole saga were quite shady, to be honest
Reminds me of this response from TPB:
I remember they used to have an entire collection of correspondence similar to that linked on their website. Teenage me laughed his ass off at it. Now with almost all governments around the world believing they have universal jurisdiction over the Internet, I’m no longer laughing, I have to keep myself from crying about how we got to this point. :(
We got to this point by the US ruthlessly negotiating every trade deal to give its copyrights global supremacy.
This is a big problem for reverse engineering things like servicing your John Deere tractor, of interest to countries with citizens that eat food.
People are catching on, though; eventually, one country is to going to step out of this US-enforced system and there will be a legal place to hack your car so you can use the seat warmer without paying a subscription.
there will always be places where people can assemble and share info. whether that be on the light or dark web.
honestly it was pretty nice of them to hold back in that message
Remind me again what happened to them? 😅
They’re still going
Sort of, afaik the original people aren’t involved anymore and the current site is notorious for being undermoderated and full of malware.
The U.S government pressured the Swedish government into prosecuting them and changing the laws, leading to them finally going to prison/receiving absurd fines. The circumstances around the whole saga were quite shady, to be honest
Yes, yes, that sounds familiar!