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871.
by autoexec 7mo ago
Exactly. If I wanted ads and surveillance I'd have just connected the smart TV directly to internet in the first place.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Always putting firestick on it and call it a day. Aren't you just letting amazon collect and monetize your viewing habits while allowing them to push ads at you? Avoiding ads and data collection are the reasons I'd want to le
873.
by autoexec 7mo ago
Any TV I buy that forces me to create an account will be returned as defective.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Filtering ads outright would never happen. They'd create a market where the device would replace the ads you see or hear with the ads of the highest bidder, and then insert new ads on top of that.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Let's be honest, they'd put ads in the pay version too.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Youtube was strong armed into agreeing to that by the RIAA to an extent. They could absolutely do better though by including human oversight and/or including it earlier in the process. Google has enough money that they can easily affo
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Money going to the government in the form of taxes doesn't necessarily result in a benefit to society at all, let alone one that justifies keeping people from being able to access and expand on their own culture while also killing off
878.
by autoexec 7mo ago
> the thought is that the copyright value accrued out of some accident and thus, the owner does not deserve its value . The owner deserves to make as much money from their product as they can, but they should only be able to exclusively
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Wouldn't it result in additional tax revenue while preventing Disney's movies from proliferating throughout society unimpeded? I mean they already pay taxes (allegedly). When artists create good works that become popular the
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by autoexec 7mo ago
If a judge had ruled differently in the Betamax case, we'd still have the ability to vote in representatives who'd enact a law that explicitly gave us the right to record for personal use. Judges should only have power to decide w
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> That's, by design, the tool used to encourage people to invest their time into producing works. The tool used was control over distribution. If income was the point copyright law could just hand tax payer money over to anyone who
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> No, but it's a framework that would allow other laws to do so. I worry that's it's the start of a lot of "other laws" which will limit the ability for children and adult's to maintain even pseudo-anonymity
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by autoexec 7mo ago
I think that facebook has been using facial recognition on every photo uploaded to their platform for a very very long time and that they already use that data in part to determine the age of users. Facebook hasn't been kicking anyone
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by autoexec 7mo ago
You're absolutely right that artists can't stop themselves from creating, but I think that a reasonable amount of protection still does encourage more works. Many works require a good deal of investment and time and if people had
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by autoexec 7mo ago
It's still smart to limit the amount of code (and coders) you have to trust. A large project like Python should be making sure it's dependencies are safe before each release. In our own projects we'd probably be better off ta
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by autoexec 7mo ago
You honestly think facebook has no idea that the children using their website are children? The combination of the children's selfies, social network, GPS coordinates, and posts make it very clear. Facebook already knows who the childr
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Disney are able to pay that amount because their IP is still generating massive income. That's entirely irrelevant though. The point of copyright isn't to protect income. The point is to encourage the creation of new works. D
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> When Mom and Dad buy the device for their kid, just punch in the kid's age before handing it to them. Doing this doesn't accomplish anything in terms of protecting children from the harms of the internet. In fact it feeds you
889.
by autoexec 7mo ago
I think that's a horrible idea. There's zero benefit to society in letting corporations like Disney that can afford to pay keep works out of the public domain longer than others.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
ISPs still need to comply with the DMCA. In their decision the court did weigh the fact that "Cox repeatedly discouraged copyright infringement by sending warnings, suspending services, and terminating accounts." so I would expect
891.
by autoexec 7mo ago
It was originally 14 years back in 1790 when publishing anything was expensive, distribution was difficult, and worldwide distribution was nearly impossible. Today you can publish works across the globe at close to the speed of light and at
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by autoexec 7mo ago
The media industry has already decided that it should be allowed to turn copyright enforcement into a revenue stream and I doubt they're going to stop their extortion racket now. This ruling could mean that they'll increase their
893.
by autoexec 7mo ago
I agree with you that 10 years is more than enough time for corporations to turn a healthy profit on something (not that they can't continue to make money off of a work after it has entered the public domain), but this wasn't a sm
894.
by autoexec 7mo ago
I'd love steam to have some competition. epic isn't it though. Epic sucks up your personal data to sell to advertisers and "marketing partners", the client itself is trash, it's just one more middle man to get in yo
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Almost every other games developer would love to be in their position on Fortnite I seriously hope that isn't true because Fortnite is a showcase of nearly everything wrong with modern gaming. It's an ad platform/casino
896.
by autoexec 7mo ago
Not even just piss-poor quality, much of our clothing is actually poisoning us with PFAS and microplastics.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
There are lots of things consumers want. They'd love a cell phone that didn't spy on them, they want a smart TV that isn't full of ads, they want an ink jet printer that doesn't refuse to print when there's still in
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> saying victims of domestic violence should chose better is also victim blaming You're the only one saying that, not me.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> I'm sure I'm on lists at the FBI and ATF just for my political org memberships alone. Thanks to whistleblowers like Mark Klein and Ed Snowden we know that we're all being monitored by the government. If there are "
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> You can put stuff in the silicon itself that allows backdoors. Very few companies make the chips too. It'd be very easy for the government to force them to add backdoors.

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