Authorities in Greece are making good on their promise to crack down and deter use of pirate sites and services. Arrests during a significant action to disrupt pirate IPTV last month are now followed by news of an immediate five-year prison sentence and a €10,000 fine. The 59-year-old defendant was reportedly found guilty of running a private torrent site; P2Planet.net. Curiously, the site announced its closure over a decade ago, making the offenses even older than that.
Oh you mean capitalist inequality magnified by enforced EU neoliberal policies? Damn, if only some people wouldn’t be “corrupt” then capitalism in the periphery would work like clockwork. Totally the fault of some people not doing it right, nothing at all to do with enforced austerity. ND enforcing IP laws along with everything else that the EU commands is corruption yes.
It’s not just the EU that’s responsible for all of this. For instance, cronyism and nepotism are deeply rooted in greek society ever since Ottoman rule. In the public sector especially, people can get jobs without any soft of merit whatsoever and even avoid persecution of any kind due to party affiliation or having friends and family members working in the public sector as well.
That jargon is literally nothing but slang for taking any and all family tradition as a pretend that your fraudulent act was anything but trickery. This, to move people who choose not to swallow a decietful pill that carried literal false flags. Flags stripped of all value for their product of death that suffocates all water consumption.
Says on every of that not-paper. Doesn’t hestate in millenia.
What does this have to do with enforcing IP law supposedly being corruption? Greece does something messed up but aligned with the EU overlords = let’s bring out the irrelevant corruption stereotype anyway.
Otherwise yeah I’m familiar with the neoliberal domestic Greek narrative and how public servants were this massive financial black hole therefore the exact same measures as Elon Musk’s DOGE were necessary. Very popular measures, in fact you mentioned crumbling infrastructure but that’s also when the public railroads were sold because public owned infrastructure bad, foreign investments good. Aren’t you talking about the train disaster? Similar derailments happened after Thatcher sold off the Brit railways in the 80s. But that’s not an example of neoliberalism wrecking something, it’s some vague theory of Greeks being corrupt imperial subjects under the Ottoman Empire (how does that work) and therefore corporations aren’t to blame? What?
Of course it’s capitalism and not some unique Greek defect, countries with issues don’t have issues because somehow they’re not good enough for capitalism. Are all the other former Ottoman provinces doing great? Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus? What’s the common factor there, cronyism? Or all becoming western colonies and protectorates?
We can check what happened to all these areas after WWII including Greece and how Greece is so special. Special enough to be invaded by the Brits after the liberation, getting into a bloody civil war that included the Americans dropping napalm on the Greek rebels because Churchill couldn’t accept Greece possibly becoming socialist, governments full of nazi collaborators and far righters with full western support, the ancestors of the current ruling party distributimg the Marshal Plan money among the western collaborators while people starved, exiling hundreds of thousands in the eastern bloc, concentration camps for communists until 1975 again with full western tolerance. Then lots of loans by the 1980s lukewarm socialist governments because the right wingers couldn’t tax the shipping magnates and other capitalist parasites for decades and there was no money for any socialized infrastructure.
Of course the usual Greek narratives only start in the 80s because that’s the right wing view that primarily runs things there.
But nah it’s not western imperialism and capitalism that has any effects exactly like the entire region because Greeks are specially corrupt. Can’t criticize the overlords, gotta blame the people.