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by sjy 6y ago
But Epic did start an antitrust case, and so far a judge has found that “serious questions do exist” and granted a temporary restraining order. That wouldn’t have happened if Epic was as obviously wrong about the monopoly question as you
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by sjy 6y ago
> The cases are more properly pursued in civil court ... that is before we even get to the moral and ethical debate about the true damages from purely electronic, not-for-profit media piracy clubs I don’t think it is possible to defer th
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by sjy 6y ago
What prevents competitors from manufacturing an iPhone for $20 or $30, or even $200 or $300? Not the copyright laws that stop you from pirating movies. Other forms of IP such as patents and trade secrets are more important. These are not ge
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by sjy 6y ago
If you agree that copyright is less-than-optimal, but you don’t think that civil disobedience of copyright laws is helpful or ethical, then what suggestion do you have for reforming the system? To my mind, “less-than-optimal” is an understa
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by sjy 6y ago
Since you mentioned the gaming industry: most popular games make money without relying on charity or selling copyrighted files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_game...
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by sjy 6y ago
That’s a pretty generous view of the purpose and history of property laws. This article is about American media companies using intellectual property laws to get individuals in foreign countries arrested.
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by sjy 6y ago
> I want to use Docker the same way I use a headless virtual machine running an SSH server. I want starting/exiting containers to be independent from their 'main process'. If you’re running systemd anyway, check out system
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by sjy 6y ago
That wasn’t obvious to me, as someone who had never built a Linux RAID from scratch at the time, reading the documentation on “Synology Hybrid RAID.” https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutori
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by sjy 6y ago
I used to have a Synology NAS but eventually I got frustrated with the limitations of its obscure Linux distribution and upgraded to a NUC with a separate multi-bay USB 3.1 hard disk enclosure, which takes up about the same amount of space.
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by sjy 6y ago
Stenographers aren’t just fast typists, they are specialists trained to produce a written (shorthand) record of the hearing in real time. Audio recordings make this obsolete. Certified full transcripts are still needed, but they can be prod
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by sjy 6y ago
I wonder if the comment was intended to be mainly about the newer mobile OSes. I don't think I'd have too much trouble finding a way to run 10-year-old Windows or Linux desktop apps, and it would be easier than running Mac apps fr
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by sjy 6y ago
> it surely must be the case, unless the argument is that all electronics manufacturers must provide an easy way to owners to run third-party software Antitrust has always been about big companies abusing market power. These concepts are
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s true that we can’t know how much cheaper Apple products would be if the antitrust laws didn’t exist, and that some people (and not only shareholders) benefit from or prefer a less competitive market. But conversely, we don’t know how m
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by sjy 6y ago
All very interesting questions, which Apple can raise in its defence to the lawsuit contending that the answer is “because of Apple’s unfair trade practices.”
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by sjy 6y ago
No. My point is not that they are a small business, it’s that they are smaller than Apple and selling into a different market. Thus it does not “follow,” from the proposition that Apple is a monopolist, that Epic is also a monopolist.
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by sjy 6y ago
If you’re a seemingly unstoppable corporate juggernaut, you’ll make enemies who think (rightly or wrongly) that your business practices are unfair, and they may successfully sue you using the laws intended to stop huge companies from engag
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by sjy 6y ago
No! This is explained right at the beginning of the article: > the question as to what is anticompetitive and what is simply good business changes as a business scales. A small business can generally be as anticompetitive as it wants to
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by sjy 6y ago
Transcripts are really important and they need to be proofed and edited by humans. However, they can be produced efficiently by sending digital audio recordings to a team of fast typists who can work remotely, work concurrently, adjust the
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by sjy 6y ago
Concepts paper and draft legislation published by the ACCC: https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/news-m... HN discussed this when the draft legislation was published: https://news.ycomb
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by sjy 6y ago
Google paid up when the competition regulators in the EU fined them €1.5bn, didn’t they?
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by sjy 6y ago
It is explained in the ACCC concepts paper [1] under the heading “Sharing of user data.” The idea is that both news organisations and digital platforms make money from targeted advertising, but digital platforms have access to more data, an
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s worth noting that, while the ACCC did recommend “requiring designated digital platforms to each provide the Australian Communications and Media Authority with codes to address the imbalance in the bargaining relationship between these
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by sjy 6y ago
Not indexing news content in order to avoid submitting to the proposed new law is itself prohibited under the new law.
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by sjy 6y ago
Wow, that's terrible. People like to complain about internet speeds in Australia, but I thought it was OK if you had FTTP. This is the first I've heard of these localised garbage fibre monopolies. https://www.itnews.com
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by sjy 6y ago
Damn, I should have paid attention to that niggling doubt about whether it was wise to cite Wikipedia, but I saw that there were footnotes and I assumed they were still accurate. Thank you for updating the article!
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by sjy 6y ago
Did you read the link I posted? > The jailbreaking of smartphones continued to be legal "where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of [lawfully obtained software] applications with compute
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by sjy 6y ago
Nobody benefits from the pointless arms race that this policy generates.
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by sjy 6y ago
> You have the legal right to jailbreak your phone and install whatever you want; neither Apple nor the Feds can stop you. The law isn’t that simple, and even if it was, Apple does stop most people from jailbreaking most Apple devices
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by sjy 6y ago
I'm not sure what jurisdiction you are from but this is certainly not how it works in any legal system I've heard of. In this article published by an Australian law firm [1], the "electronic signatures" routinely used in
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by sjy 6y ago
Last I checked, iOS and Android devices don’t support MHTML out of the box. It would be more accurate to say that everyone has a PDF reader than everyone has a browser that supports MHTML.

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