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"You wouldn't download a car."
"You wouldn't hit mute during the commercials on a television broadcast."
You wouldn't shoot a Policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet, and then send it to the Policeman's grieving widow, and then steal it again.
Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting real mean!
Sucha pity lineham turned out to be a raging cuntslap
This is suspiciously specific.
IT is.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
IT is.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
what have you done
The fact that this was a legit proposal by cable companies and even got patented serves as evidence of the lengths that corporations will go to enshittify services for profit.