HBO also noticed this bonus episode through its anti-piracy partner Marketly and took action in response. A takedown notice posted in the Lumen Database shows that the company asked Google to remove an “infringing” link to the non-existent release earlier this week.

They’re claiming to own the copyright to the Trojan horse?

My opinion will never change on this, I don’t care if they’re suing satan himself.

Fuck the RIAA.

The film has now been completely lost, there’s no surviving copies. It’s pretty crazy that something that important was just allowed to vanish from history.

a dying and dangerous 20th century technology

I stopped reading there, nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy generation.

I’ll add that to the list of genes I want knocked out when CRISPR gets good enough.

A compromise would be to require a text summary of any video post.

From translating TFA:

Justice considers that the absence of moderation, cooperation with law enforcement and the tools offered by Telegram (disposable number, cryptocurrencies, etc.) makes it complicit in drug trafficking, child crime offenses and fraud.

Same reason Russia wanted to arrest him, failure to do the government’s bidding.

Yup, kernel level “anti-cheat” is a rootkit spyware that “pinky swears” it’s only spying for a good reason.