this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
112 points (100.0% liked)

Chapotraphouse

14284 readers
661 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Cubans like ASOIAF slop too gorby-sad

top 20 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] ColombianLenin@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

ASOIAF is not slop, they could be watching cape shit instead

[โ€“] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago

These people have nation states and soveriegn wealth funds. It isn't like they can't afford it. It is the result of poor customer service. - GabeN

castro-stuff Behold! This is what amerikkka doesn't want you to see! commercial-district

[โ€“] CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 9 hours ago

Gasp I am appalled and my heart breaks for HBO

[โ€“] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 35 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The Cuban government actually never airs season 7 and 8 so Cubans blissfully think that they only made 6 seasons

[โ€“] Krem@hexbear.net 15 points 14 hours ago

the good version of "Tyler Durden got therapy"

[โ€“] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

that's nothing! i heard there's communists out there who use programs such as Transmission or qBitTorrent to watch all the movies and television they want for free! (without ads)

[โ€“] Mindfury@hexbear.net 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

this post just made me wonder: is usenet bourgeois? because i'm not sharing the files like a torrent, i'm just downloading them?

[โ€“] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Seems difficult to seriously describe a service that is offered freely as bourgeois

[โ€“] Tabitha@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Where can you get full piracy access to usenet for free?

usenet is proletarian because it was invented while the soviet union still existed

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 24 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Why would they pay, especially regarding American copyright holders lmao? America has been embargoing them into the dirt since they killed Batista

[โ€“] hyperpoopsucks@hexbear.net 7 points 12 hours ago

oh no my incest noncon historical fanfic author and the human chair company won't get money from sieged farmers the horror

imagine thinking this is bad lmao

[โ€“] Blakey@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion here I know but IP protection of some description is needed under capitalism, if a corporation can just take someone's work and use it without compensating them, that's a capital-P Problem for artists. But this ain't that, HBO is not a struggling artiste who isn't being compensated for their work and Cuba isn't a for-profit enterprise using HBO's work to generate revenue. In other words this is unabashedly a good thing - the people who actually did the work have been compensated, and the Cuban people get their slop. In a better system everyone involved would like this outcome. The fact that it makes HBO executives mad only proves that they shouldn't exist.

[โ€“] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I understand the intent, but needed is a strong word. The reality is that IP protection is used 1000x more frequently to screw over independent artistes than it it is used to help them. I would argue most independent artists who do make their living, do so in spite of copyright law, rather than thanks to it.

There's a hypothetical lib dream capitalist paradise out there where laws are half-thought through and applied fairly and some limited number of artists can now profit off their work thanks to IP law being 'correctly' applied. But trying to make a capitalist world where IP law actually works is like trying (and failing) to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic.

[โ€“] Keld@hexbear.net 16 points 16 hours ago
[โ€“] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Cubans like ASOIAF slop too

My brain parsed this as A Song of Ice As Fuck

[โ€“] Mindfury@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago

imagine game of thrones, but Stannis was just absolutely iced out, grills and everything

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago

i mean why would they

[โ€“] BabyTurtles@hexbear.net 9 points 15 hours ago