the magic word here is “HTTPS”. Prior to encrypted downloads being the norm, it was trivial for your ISP (and presumably, the feds) to see what sites you were visiting and what you downloaded from them. With HTTPS, at best it’s possible to know what site you’re communicating with and how much data you’ve sent to and received from them, but not what the data actually is. (Unless of course the site’s logs get seized, which could contain records of which files were requested by which IP addresses)

my favorite was the Madonna song that was just Madonna saying “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” over and over again for three minutes, and then someone made a dance remix of it and uploaded it again

this is funny to think about but the thing about porch pirates is that they know where you live and they aren’t afraid to ruin your day

edit: and now they have an Amazon box filled with dog poo

Out of all the underhanded, racist shit that got slung at Mamdani during the campaign, I think the very worst was the claim that New York would have “another 9/11” under him as mayor. What the fuck does the mayor have to do with 9/11? Is there a secret battery of anti-aircraft missiles that he’s supposed to be in charge of???

I’m not familiar with Plasticman, but all the rom site lawsuits that I know about from the past several years involved sites that were either charging money or running ads to make money from pirate downloads. I could be mistaken on that front.

Nintendo of Japan doesn’t file lawsuits against DS emulators either. Sony is a Japanese company; they sued Bleem and lost but that was more than 20 years ago. There are emulators for PS3, PS Vita, and PS4 - all platforms for which Sony still hosts network infrastructure and operates digital storefronts - and AFAIK none of them have been subject to legal threats.

honestly though, most game companies are pretty chill about the existence of emulators. Sure there have been lawsuits about Switch rom sites and Switch emulators - which are about currently-selling consoles, just as the post concedes.

The guy in the picture is absolutely not enamored with the emotional maturity of younger women. In fact, rather the opposite - he wants a woman so young that she doesn’t have the experience and context to recognize him as a predator and a parasite.

the name alone is worth a download

“Laser focused” in the same way that a cat could be say to be “laser focused”