LaLiga "Talks to Google" About Deleting Piracy Apps From a Million Phones * TorrentFreak
LaLiga "Talks to Google" About Deleting Piracy Apps From a Million Phones * TorrentFreak
LaLiga says it's talking to Google about "locating" and "eliminating" piracy apps already downloaded to a million phones.
"If it can be done and it is done, for example, for crimes such as child pornography, for intellectual property, which is stealing, they should have to do it too." - LaLiga chief Javier Tebas
Ah yes, two equivalent crimes: CSAM and... um... watching sports without paying
And people say slippery slope is a fallacy. I guess hopefully it is in this case.
The slippery slope is a fallacy only because there's no proof things will go one way or the other. You can use slippery slope to say ridiculous things. E.g "if we let gays marry, it'll be pedos next" is a good example of the fallacy whereas "if we let private corporations spy on us for a good reason, they'll expand their powers to extract even more profit" is not, but either way, you need to know the context (which is that corporations serve to extract maximum possible wealth and have no morals).
Hey, they're not equivalent! The second one is a lot worse! Say the shareholders
or intellectual property, which is stealing
That had to be explained to make it sound like a bad thing. 🏴☠️
They fucking finally said the quiet part loud! Make a dystopian filtering system with CSAM as an excuse, then use it for filtering piracy, unauthorized gambling sites (but just because they're not paying the taxes, not because actually caring about the citizens mental health), and so on
The UK just passed this exact law. They say it's to protect children, but it requires all companies to build a backdoor into their end to end encryption specifically so they can spy on users for "inappropriate material that is harmful to children."
Is that the one that explicitely includes "positive depictions of refugees arriving" in the laws text?
bu- but it's for the children!!!
This is about piracy (they don't want people watching pirate streams of football*), not about privacy
*known as soccer in some regions
These assholes used to spy on people - their app used to keep users' microphones open, so that together with location, they could detect whether bars were airing football matches, and try to find unlicenced ones.
I really hope they don't get away with deleting apps from people's phones.
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Wow just wow. Hate that maffia
It is humiliating how much damage has been done to digital rights, in the name of sportsball and old movies.
How can it do that?
And won't people just use piracy websites?
And Google already scans users phones and deletes apps?
Always sideload
Once again I feel quite comfortable without Google Play serives on my device!
As soon as google starts removing sideloaded apps forcefully without play protect, will be the time when Apples market share increases.
Apk sideloading freedom is the only major difference left between Android and iOS
You realize that on Apple you can never have these apps at all?