The violation they target users for is sharing a video, and that’s usually through a file sharing service like torrenting.

Think of it this way - whatever you watch online via a browser you’re already downloading. Or via an app.

You know, it really tweaks me that torrenting is associates with piracy, when it could’ve become the defacto way to share files between users, if OS devs had just included the protocol in the OS (looking at you Android, but Windows and Apple too).

I’ve often questioned why it wasn’t…

I just say “post grezz sequel”. Sorry if it pisses people off, but it’s a stupid name, so I’m gonna say it the way I want.

I look forward to the day when all these lame-ass, insider naming conventions are looked down upon as the stupid things they are.

Wtf does “en jinx” or “engine X” have to do with it’s functionality?

I hate looking for an app on my phone that does a particular thing but hell if I can recall what the idiot developed called it.

Rules of English, the closest I’d come is n-jinx. You don’t pronounce letters individually, unless reciting the alphabet or something.

Unless you pronounce the letter “B” the same way you say it, like the bug that makes honey.

We don’t say “beenefits” or “bee eee an eee eef eye tee ess”

Wtf?

It’s Jason. If they wanted it pronounced that way, they should’ve spelled it differently…

Like GIF

Sorry, no, at least one could argue GIF. JSON is a single freakin’ vowel short of a common male name.

Morons.

I’m sure they will. It’s always a cat-and-mouse game.

It’s been a while since I read about DRM, but what I recall the challenge is not being able to control end-to-end, which is what really drives trusted boot efforts in both Android and Windows.

If you don’t control the hardware and OS, then someone can use it to sidestep DRM.

Oh, I get what they’re doing, but I resent their approach.

So many just introduced the subscription to sucker the naive.

I don’t mind paying for software. So let me pay for a major version, and if I want a major update, that costs too. I have so much software where a given version works just fine (FolderSync for example, and Office 2016),that I see no need to upgrade.

Meh. A motorcycle will split a deer in two. Not really the hill to be dying on.

Are you looking for selective sync, and just over the LAN or over the internet too?

If just LAN, there’s many Windows sync tools for this with varying levels of complexity and capability. Even just a simple batch file with a copy command.

I’ll often just setup a Robocopy job for something that’s a regular sync.

If you open files over a network connection, they stay remote and remain remote when you save. Though this isn’t best practice (Windows and apps are known for having hiccups with remotely opened files).

Two other approaches:

1. ResilioSync enables selective sync. If you change a file you’ve synchronized locally, the changed file will sync back to the source.

2. Mesh network such as Wireguard, Tailscale, Hamachi. Each enables you to maintain an encrypted connection between your devices that the system sees as a LAN (with encryption). If you’re only using Windows, I’d recommend starting with Hamachi, it’s easier to get started. If mobile device support is needed, use Wireguard or Tailscale (Tailscale uses Wireguard, but easier to setup).

Policy doesn’t count for anything. So what if they claim they won’t sell data about you? They still can, and companies do.

Or they sell the entire company, like 23AndMe just did.

Ah, yes, another person who goes through life smelling like ass and foisting their stench on the rest of us.

Deodorant isn’t Axe, but nice strawman.

I feel like this would do better in Dad Jokes

Me too

I don’t believe the ISP would have legal standing to take you to court, as they don’t hold the copyright.

They’re in the middle, being told hy copyright holders that someone using their service is violating copyright, and they must “do something”.

Eventually they may shut off your service, but I haven’t heard of it happening since the early 2000’s.

I refuse to subscribe to apps. Devs doing so for no good reason get 1 star, and I delete the app.

Screw em.

Now, if an app has a back end, or has to host a resolver (Resilio Sync, Tailscale, etc), or provide other necessary services, that’s different.

Anything in a can is not going to be good for us

Self-centered? Hahahahaha

While it’s the extroverts that never “shut their pihole”.

FFS, being self-centered (in the selfish sense) occurs in both groups/all along the spectrum.

What maroon wrote this drivel?

Even better, email the school with a well-referenced correction.

Hahahaha, awesome!

I last owned an inkjet about 2000. Since then, the worst I’ve owned is a infrared thermal printer that was, well, a bit slow (infrared in 2005!). I’d still take that printer over any inkjet.