One nitpick with this: This only applies to the US.
I get that a large percentage of Lemmy (and Reddit, earlier on) are from the US, but it bugs me that things like this default to being US-centric without mentioning it.
Awesome initiative, nonetheless!
Not to be a dick, because I agree, but this doesn’t really answer the question.
The same goes for a lot of big-name software.
They know you’re pirating their software. Almost everything phones home, whether you pirate it or not. Unless the ping comes from a MAC address of a machine bought by a company, they don’t care.
As hard as it was to get, The Tower of Power was solid, standing erect over the competition.
This wrinkly, flaccid dingle-dangle pales in comparison to the pitch-black proud pillar of raw potent power of the original.