Cubans like ASOIAF slop too 
There are little places you can go in Cuba to have a bunch of media downloaded to a USB drive for you.
yeah I guess it's probably a thing in most of the world. At least anywhere the internet is super slow.
The Cuban government actually never airs season 7 and 8 so Cubans blissfully think that they only made 6 seasons
These people have nation states and soveriegn wealth funds. It isn't like they can't afford it. It is the result of poor customer service. - GabeN
Behold! This is what 
doesn't want you to see! 
that's nothing! i heard there's communists out there who use programs such as Transmission or qBittorrent to watch all the movies and television they want for free! (without ads)
this post just made me wonder: is usenet bourgeois? because i'm not sharing the files like a torrent, i'm just downloading them?
Seems difficult to seriously describe a service that is offered freely as bourgeois
usenet is proletarian because it was invented while the soviet union still existed
Why would they pay, especially regarding American copyright holders lmao? America has been embargoing them into the dirt since they killed Batista
oh no my incest noncon historical fanfic author and the human chair company won't get money from sieged farmers the horror
Cubans like ASOIAF slop too
My brain parsed this as A Song of Ice As Fuck
imagine game of thrones, but Stannis was just absolutely iced out, grills and everything
Unpopular opinion here I know but IP protection of some description is needed under capitalism, if a corporation can just take someone's work and use it without compensating them, that's a capital-P Problem for artists. But this ain't that, HBO is not a struggling artiste who isn't being compensated for their work and Cuba isn't a for-profit enterprise using HBO's work to generate revenue. In other words this is unabashedly a good thing - the people who actually did the work have been compensated, and the Cuban people get their slop. In a better system everyone involved would like this outcome. The fact that it makes HBO executives mad only proves that they shouldn't exist.
I understand the intent, but needed is a strong word. The reality is that IP protection is used 1000x more frequently to screw over independent artistes than it it is used to help them. I would argue most independent artists who do make their living, do so in spite of copyright law, rather than thanks to it.
There's a hypothetical lib dream capitalist paradise out there where laws are half-thought through and applied fairly and some limited number of artists can now profit off their work thanks to IP law being 'correctly' applied. But trying to make a capitalist world where IP law actually works is like trying (and failing) to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic.
