• promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    10 months ago

    I sincerely hope so, just to imagine the shocked faces at the company that made legal threats to Tachiyomi, when it itself has no content. I mean how stupid can you be

    • ram@bookwormstory.social
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      10 months ago

      Imagine if companies could just sue and take down products just because they could theoretically be used to view pirated content (not to pirate, but to view it).

      Goodbye Adobe Acrobat Reader, v1 Nintendo Switches, all home PCs, Android phones, and web browsers,

      • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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        10 months ago

        Well, it is essentially what they’re doing already with DRM.

        Try watching a full resolution stream on any paid streaming service using “bad” software, like Firefox or Linux.

      • ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
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        10 months ago

        web browsers

        Hasn’t something like this happened already? Not sure what platform it was (Android TV maybe?), but I vaguely remember something like that.

    • harry_balzac@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” - Unknown astronomer quoted by Fritz Perls in 1942