this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
205 points (99.5% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

60266 readers
1393 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 day ago

He doesn't even know or care about how traditional tariffs are supposed to work. What makes him think he knows what the fuck is non-tariff? Old fucking moron.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

I think that's when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago

lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.

Diversity definition

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.

That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hell, he might end up more coherent.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

I mean. We could do all that if we want.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›