>due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win

Much like how the entirety of Hollywood, book publishers, academic publishers, and game developers have won against piracy despite being some of the largest corps on earth and dedicating untold billions to the issue over the past 30 years?

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blanched 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They won the long game. Everything is rented and DRM now. Very little of what most people buy digitally is truly owned.

	▲	duzer65657 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		they didn't win by attacking piracy head-on though, they made capitulation easy & nice enough for us to happily go along.

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PostOnce an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They have a finite # of employees, a finite budget, and a finite amount of time.

Hobbyists do not. ROI is not a factor.

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pixl97 an hour ago | parent [-]

As yes, the hobbyist built nuclear weapons program.....

Legalize recreational plutonium.

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tempest_ an hour ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair the state works pretty hard to crush "hobbyist" nuclear weapons programs so you don't really know how far it could get.

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fc417fc802 an hour ago | parent [-]

By the time you're building (or buying) the necessary highly esoteric and expensive ultracentrifuge setup I think you would be well outside the realm of "hobbyist" unless someone insists on the most unreasonably pedantic definition for the term.

Unless we're only considering final assembly. Just gotta get that weapons grade fissile material supplier lined up. That might or might not qualify as rich hobbyist territory depending on how high a price tag is permissible.

	▲	tempest_ 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You don't have to use the ultracentrifuge, though I don't suppose the power plant you would need for a diffusion plant would be much more attainable.

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cmxch 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You don’t happen to know a certain Doc Brown?

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What? Some nerds on private trackers and kids on 123movies or whatever is not piracy winning by any material stretch.

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SecretDreams 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. Winning against piracy doesn't mean you completely eliminate piracy. It means you scare enough people into not doing it and make it a bit harder to do for others.

Losing to piracy would see companies like Netflix and Spotify not thriving.

	▲	fc417fc802 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> It means you scare enough people into not doing it and make it a bit harder to do for others. By which definition they utterly failed. > Losing to piracy would see companies like Netflix and Spotify not thriving. Not at all. Netflix and Spotify do well because they are a good value proposition for the average customer. Piracy is free at point of "purchase" but is (and always has been) expensive in terms of various sorts of overhead.