I'm asking about what place one could openly host every known commercial pop song and every Hollywood film without any worry about being shutdown or sued.

For a reference, according to a one-minute check of Wikipedia, the only countries which haven't ratified the Berne Convention or the TRIPS Agreement in any way are Eritrea, Kosovo, Palau and Palestine. While joining these agreements doesn't imply they're enforced, it gives an idea of how widely governments do agree to intellectual property rights.

~~how much would it cost to launch an independent server into orbit?~~

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[–] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't get that. It's very easy to activate illegally. There was also a free upgrade/activation route if you pretended to be blind or something like that. Think that's how I got a license.

It's pretty obvious that MS doesn't care if you're pirating windows. Their main market is business clients and the companies/governments they're selling your data to.

The only difficulty I ran into, is how to activate tiny10 without an internet connection.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

most people just dont want to bother activating windows, legally or not. Because what does it do? cool it removes the water mark and lets you use the customization options in the theme menu, that's not deal breaker for most.

most of the time it is a simple case of for somereason the hardware id based windows license from the OEM not working, usually because someone decided to upgrade to the Pro edition themselves or the IT guy when asked to reinstall windows defaulted to using the Pro edition, thus the license for Home edition from hardware id doesn't work

[–] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

It reminds me of people who don't remove the sticker from their hat. Those people are also wrong.